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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
Every step is on the path.
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Every Follow Journey Path Step Taoism
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
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
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Compassion Country Taoism Town
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
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism

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