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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Inspirational Internal Peace Spiritual
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet Taoism
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
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Choice Instrument Men Tool Weapon Wise
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Done Foolish Man Mad Result
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

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