"If you want to become full, let yourself be empty."
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"Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness."
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"Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining."
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"Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river."
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"Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?"
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"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."
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"I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves."
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"Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning."
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"When there is no desire, all things are at peace"
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"Seeing the small is called clarity."
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"There is no greater disaster than discontent."
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"Returning is the movement of the Way."
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"To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao."
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"The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle."
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"If you want to be given everything, give everything up."
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"To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao."
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"The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning."
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"The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness."
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"If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave."
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"When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven."
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