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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

Laozi

No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
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
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Fail Honor People
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
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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Average Believe Diligently Practice
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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Heart Love People Realize
Nature is not human hearted.
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Enlightening Hearted Nature

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

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