"Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion."
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"Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love."
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"Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing."
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"If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding."
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"Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things."
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". . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom."
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"Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven."
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"Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego."
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"The sturdiest virtue seems fragile."
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"A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness."
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"One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment."
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"In order to contract, It is necessary first to expand. In order to weaken, It is necessary first to strengthen. In order to destroy, It is first necessary to promote. In order to grasp, It is necessary first to give. This is called subtle light. The weak and the tender overcome the hard and the strong."
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"The Way is ever nameless."
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"I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing."
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"To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health."
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"Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong."
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"Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things."
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"Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect."
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"Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose"
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"What is and what is not create each other."
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