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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

Laozi

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Deem Humorous Love Witty
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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Being Free Name Simplicity
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Done Foolish Man Mad Result
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

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