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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Enough Know Misfortune
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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Accomplish Goal Heaven 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
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Good Intelligent Job Man Teacher
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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Deed Elevate Kindness Spiritual Wick
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order

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