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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

Laozi

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
LAOZI

Country Life People Taoism Thinking
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
LAOZI

Forever Heart Letting Surround
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
LAOZI

Artist Good Intuition Need Person
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
LAOZI

Fact Known Overcoming Practice
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Done Foolish Man Mad Result
Make the small big and the few many.
LAOZI

Big Few Make Small Taoism
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
LAOZI

Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
LAOZI

Knowledge Mind Understanding
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
LAOZI

Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise
The great image lacks shape.
LAOZI

Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
LAOZI

Abandon Accomplishment Inspirational
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.
LAOZI

Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
LAOZI

Dream Opportunity Worry
The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
LAOZI

Clevar Know Men Understand Wise

When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

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