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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Laozi

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
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
Wear down to be renewed.
LAOZI

Country Life People Renew Taoism
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
LAOZI

Courses Go Letting World
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Enemy Friend Friendship Honor Men Unconcern
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
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
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Enemy Human Inspirational Men
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
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 vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Below Humility King Lying People
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism

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