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Misattributed quotes — Laozi

China

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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I am not at all interested in immortality, only in the taste of tea.

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When the center does not hold, the circle falls apart.

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Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox

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What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. With the best leaders when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, "We have done this ourselves."

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laozi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.