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

Laozi

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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Perceive Sage Taoism Use
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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Give Knowledge Ignorant People
The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Attention Country Done Emotion Humble People
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Good Intelligent Job Man Teacher
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
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
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism

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