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

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About Laozi

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Laozi (variously spelled; , low-TSUH; Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ) is the name traditionally given to an ancient Chinese philosopher, also identified as Li Er or Lao Dan, who is regarded as the author or originating teacher associated with the Tao Te Ching (Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng), one of the foundational...

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

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

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