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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Laozi

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Inspirational Problem Simple Small
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
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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Dream Opportunity Success Weed
Nature is not human hearted.
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Enlightening Hearted Nature
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
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
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Fulfill Inspirational Leadership Wisdom
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.
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Dream Opportunity Worry

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

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