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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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Country Credit Giving Lead People Tke
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
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
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
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
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Contemplate Heart Mind Peace
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Country Life People Taoism Thinking
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph

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