- Nov 07, 2020
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- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Beautiful Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Good Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Opens
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- Nov 07, 2020
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
- Predict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Miles
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Nov 07, 2020
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Deemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
- Defective
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
- Paradoxical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Be Yourself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Manifest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is not human hearted.
- Benevolence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
- Nov 07, 2020
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
- Courageous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
To lead people walk behind them.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is contented is rich.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020