Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism) |
Arts and Artists |
| A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Leaders and Leadership |
| A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
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Comfort |
| A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Satisfaction |
| A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
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Growth |
| A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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Things and Little Things |
| All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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Acceptance |
| As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
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Courage |
| Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Courage |
| Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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Attachment |
| By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try the world is beyond the winning.
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Fortune |
| By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.
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Meaning of Life |
| Darkness within darkness; the gateway to all understanding.
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Failure |
| Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.
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Fear |
| Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
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Potential |
| For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Teachers and Teaching |
| Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Self-Discipline |
| He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.
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Self-Control |
| He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Power |
| He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Attitude |
| He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.
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Riches |
| He who is contented is rich.
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Riches |
| He who knows he has enough is rich.
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Self-Knowledge |
| He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
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Satisfaction |
| He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Giving |
| He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Ambition |
| He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
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Leaders and Leadership |
| I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Giving |
| If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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Water |
| In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Spirit and Spirituality |
| It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
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Kindness |
| Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Self-Knowledge |
| Know thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
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Power |
| Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
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Self-Knowledge |
| Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Change |
| Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Desire |
| Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Nature |
| Nature is not human hearted.
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Power |
| Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
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Government |
| Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, "We have done it ourselves."
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Failure |
| People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Happiness |
| Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
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Cunning |
| Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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Achievement |
| That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of it's future yet to be achieved.
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Understanding |
| The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Misers and Miseries |
| The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
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Self-Love |
| The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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Victory |
| The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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Victory |
| The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
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Success |
| The way to do is to be.
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Leaders and Leadership |
| The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.
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