The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
LAO TZUIf you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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The Way to do is to be.
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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
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When goodness is lost there is morality.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Love is a decision – not an emotion!
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.”
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There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.
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All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
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Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
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Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
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