Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

Benjamin Hoff's Popular Quotes

Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

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A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own…

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As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

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But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind tries too…

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There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too despe…

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Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

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One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, …

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Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh

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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

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