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

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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
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
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Family Inspirational Motivational
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Done Foolish Man Mad Result
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
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Country Life People Taoism Thinking
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
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
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

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