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Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.
Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?
What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
Stay at the center and let all things take their course.
Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.
I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.
When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.
A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?
People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.
There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.
The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.
The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.
Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.
Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.
The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.