Between yea and nay, how much difference is there? by Laozi

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

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If you would take, you must first give. by Laozi

If you would take, you must first give.

intelligence compassion giving

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness. by Laozi

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

compassion kindness thinking

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out... by Laozi

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

slips form thinking

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

three pride humble

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

distortion method evil

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place. by Laozi

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

practice action fall

Appetite for food and sex is nature. by Laozi

Appetite for food and sex is nature.

appetite sex

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

powerful clever war

Its name-what passes not away. by Laozi

Its name-what passes not away.

names

Great, it passes on (in constant flow). by Laozi

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

constant flow

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred t... by Laozi

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

spirituality hundred people

The greatest revelation is stillness. by Laozi

The greatest revelation is stillness.

revelations stillness

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

enlightenment nature moving

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral n... by Laozi

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

restless nature remember

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

attacking strong water

Even the longest journey must begin where you stand. by Laozi

Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.

where-you-stand journey

The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete. by Laozi

The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

obsolete leader jobs

Observe how endings become beginnings. by Laozi

Observe how endings become beginnings.

tao-wisdom tao-ching tao-te-ching

Practice non-action. Work without doing. by Laozi

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

practice action work

People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

economic-inequality fighting people