"Watch your thoughts, they become words."
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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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"Free from desire, you realize the mystery."
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"If you want to be given everything, give everything up."
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"Kindness in words creates confidence."
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"The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding."
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"See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things"
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"The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature."
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"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream."
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"The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning."
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"Wise men hear and see as little children do."
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"Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small."
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"Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities."
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"The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness."
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"Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity."
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"If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave."
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"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself."
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"The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it."
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"When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven."
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"Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature."
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