1. Lao Tzu - “When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.”

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2. Lao Tzu - “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

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3. Lao Tzu - “Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.”

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4. Lao Tzu - “The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.”

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5. Lao Tzu - “When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.”

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6. Lao Tzu - “Muddy water, let stand becomes clear.”

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7. Lao Tzu - “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

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8. Lao Tzu - “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”

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9. Lao Tzu - “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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10. Lao Tzu - “When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.”

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11. Lao Tzu - “When virtue is lost, benevolence appears; when benevolence is lost, right conduct appears; when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”

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12. Lao Tzu - “To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

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13. Lao Tzu - “To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.”

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14. Lao Tzu - “Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish — don't overdo it.”

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15. Lao Tzu - “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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16. Lao Tzu - “The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.”

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17. Lao Tzu - “Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.”

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18. Lao Tzu - “Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.”

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19. Lao Tzu - “(The Tao) is always present and always available.... If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.”

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20. Lao Tzu - “He who knows others is learned.  He who knows himself is wise.”

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21. Lao Tzu - “He who knows that enough is enough; will always have enough.”

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22. Lao Tzu - “He is strong who conquers others; He who conquers himself is mighty.”

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23. Lao Tzu - “He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.”

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24. Lao Tzu - “He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.”

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25. Lao Tzu - “The good man is the teacher of the bad,  And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.  He who does not value the teacher,  Or greatly care for the material,  Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.  Such is the essential mystery.”

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