“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“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.”
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
“There is no illusion greater than fear.”
“He who is contented is rich.”
“From caring comes courage.”
“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick. A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.”
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”
“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”
“Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
“The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.”
“If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.”
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
“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.”
“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.”
“Be the chief but never the lord.”
“Nature is not human hearted.”
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”
“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.”
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
“Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.”
“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”
“He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.”
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present”
“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”
“He who is in harmony with the Tao is like a newborn child. Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak, but its grip is powerful. It doesn't know about the union of male and female, yet its penis can stand erect, so intense is its vital power. It can scream its head off all day, yet it never becomes hoarse, so complete is its harmony. The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.”
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”
“Existence is beyond the power of words To define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute. In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words, Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface, The core and the surface Are essentially the same, Words making them seem different Only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: From wonder into wonder Existence opens.”
“Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”