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

Laozi

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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
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People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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. . . 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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Returning to the source is serenity.
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The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
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He who is able to conquer others is powerful he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.
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Not valuing wealth prevents theft.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.
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