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The wise man knows without traveling.

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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
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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Being Free Name Simplicity
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
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
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
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
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
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
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong

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