Laozi
Philosopher
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."
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Tao Ching
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Laozi
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"If good happens, good; if bad happens, good."
Laozi
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"Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear."
Laozi
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"Observe how endings become beginnings."
Laozi
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"When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly."
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"The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao."
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"The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
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"Yielding, like ice about to melt."
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