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All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.

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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Enemy Human Inspirational Men
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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Emptiness Inspirational Mind
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Powerful Strength Strong Victory
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism

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