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“That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.”

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Author:Laozi

“That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.”

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Author:Laozi

“Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?”

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Author:Laozi

“Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.”

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Author:Laozi

“Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.”

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Author:Laozi

“If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.”

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Author:Laozi

“Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.”

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Author:Laozi

“Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.”

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Author:Laozi

“Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.”

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Author:Laozi

“Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.”

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Author:Laozi

“Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.”

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Author:Laozi

“...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.”

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Book:The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition

Source: The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition

“The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.”

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Author:Laozi

“Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.”

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Author:Jacob Needleman

“According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”