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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.


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starts from beneath your feet.

NOTE: Other translation...
LAO-TZU By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try...
LAO-TZU Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one an...
LAO-TZU A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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LAO TZU Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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LAO TZU Nature is not human hearted.
LAO-TZU Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the ...
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LAO TZU The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart
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LAO TZU Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work i...
LAO TZU Nature is not human hearted.
LAO TZU Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the sen...
LAO TZU The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
LAO TZU He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others ...
LAO TZU At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know wh...
LAO TZU My teachings are easy to understand
and easy to put into practice.
Yet your intellect wil...
LAO TZU Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
LAO TZU Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and ...
LAO TZU True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their...
LAO TZU Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang
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LAO TZU When there is no desire,
all things are at peace.
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other things become ugly.
When people see some t...
LAO TZU He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu
LAO TZU Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
LAO TZU The further one goes, the less one knows.
LAO TZU Love

Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn...
LAO TZU all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you w...
LAO TZU Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.
LAO TZU