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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.


Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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THICH NHAT HANH There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
WAYNE DYER There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
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Reduce selfishness,
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Achieve greatness in little things.
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LAO-TZU If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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LAO-TZU To produce things and to rear them,
To produce, but not to take possession of them,
To act, bu...
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LAO-TZU He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
LAO-TZU Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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LAO-TZU Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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SUN-TZU People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as ca...
LAO-TZU A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is bu...
LAO-TZU Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the nex...
LAO-TZU Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When yo...
LAO-TZU To see things in the seed is genius.
LAO-TZU Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving ...
LAO-TZU He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LAO-TZU A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
LAO-TZU In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is h...
LAO-TZU Water flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water,
Yet for overcoming what ...
LAO-TZU The best man is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them....
LAO-TZU When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truc...
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LAO-TZU A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO-TZU The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.

NOTE: Other translation...
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SUN-TZU Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one an...
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