Care about What other people Think and you will Always be their Prisoner.
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.
When you are Content to be simply Yourself and Don’t Compare or Compete, Everyone will Respect you.
The Power of Intuitive Understanding will Protect you from Harm until the End of your Days.
The True Person benefits yet Expects No Reward, does the Work and Moves on. There is No desire to be considered Better than Others.
One Cannot Reflect in Streaming water. Only those who know Internal Peace can Give it to Others.
Manifest Plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, have few Desires.
Make your Heart like a lake with a Calm still surface and Great depths of Kindness.
Knowing Others is to be Clever. Knowing yourself is to be Enlightened. Overcoming others requires Force. Overcoming yourself requires Strength.
Act without Striving. Work without Interfering. Find the Flavor in what is Flavorless.
The Key to Growth is the Introduction of Higher Dimensions of Consciousness into our Awareness.
Surrender your Self-interest. Love others as much as you Love yourself. Then you can be Entrusted with all things under Heaven.
The Career of a Sage is of two Kinds: He is either Honored by all in the world, like a Flower waving its Head or else he Disappears into the silent Forest.
There is No greater Offense than harboring Desires. There is No greater disaster than Discontent. There is no Greater Misfortune than wanting more.
There is No calamity greater than Lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than Discontentment and there is no greater Disaster than Greed.
Be Content with what you have, Rejoice in the way things are. When you Realize there is nothing Lacking, the whole World belongs to you.
If you Realize that all things Change, there is Nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not Afraid of Dying, there is nothing you cannot Achieve.
Watch your Thoughts, they become your Words. Watch your Words, they become your Actions. Watch your Actions, they become your Habits. Watch your Habits, they become your Character. Watch your Character, it becomes your Destiny.
Do not look only at Yourself and you will see Much. Do not justify Yourself and you will be Distinguished. Do not Brag and you will have Merit. Do not be Prideful and your work will Endure.
Be Careful what you Water your Dreams with. Water them with Worry and Fear and you will produce Weeds that choke the Life from your Dream. Water them with Optimism and Solutions and you will Cultivate Success.
The Sage does not Hoard. The more he Helps others, the more he Benefits himself, the more he Gives to Others, the more he gets Himself. The Way of Heaven does one Good but never does one Harm. The Way of the sage is to Act but not to Compete.
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