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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

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Inspirational Problem Simple Small
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
From caring comes courage.
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Being Inspirational Inspiring Strong
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition

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