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Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

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.

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.

Act without expectation.

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

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

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

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

A good runner leaves no footprints.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

A good wanderer leaves no trace.

A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.

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.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.