"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
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"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it."
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"If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!"
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"True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits."
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"In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
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"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free."
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"Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter."
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"Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point."
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"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."
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"Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all."
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"He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream."
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"Silence, and non action are the root of all things."
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"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean."
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"Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens."
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"When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power."
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"Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!"
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"All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?"
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"The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up."
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"When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance."
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