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When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

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A good door needs no lock, still it can’t be opened.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.

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Act without expectation.

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Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

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