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“Always without desire we must be found,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“When there is this abstinence from action, good order is universal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it leads to wild movements and evil issues.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane