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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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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Heaven Mean Vision
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Inspirational Internal Peace Spiritual
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.
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Abandon Accomplishment Inspirational
. . . 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
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Choice Instrument Men Tool Weapon Wise
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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Breathtaking Themselves Wisdom Wise
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way

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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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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