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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.

Laozi

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
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
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Fail Honor People
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
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
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowledge Mind Understanding
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World

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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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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