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I have just three things to teach:  simplicity, patience, compassion.  These three are your greatest treasures.
    —     Lao Tzu
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
   —   Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
   —   Lao-tzu
[We are going to HAVE to be in it for the long haul folks.  So, get settled in…  There’s lots of work ahead.    —    kmab]
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
    ―    Lao Tzu
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
    —    Lao Tzu
[Found at one of the blogs I follow:  https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/
The specific post is at:  https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2017/09/24/heard-by-the-universe/
Well worth a visit if you have a free minute…
This quote reminds me of another by the famous musician, John Coltrane:   “One thought can create a million vibrations.”
Just saying…    —    kmab]
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Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love.
    —    Lao-Tzu
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A leader is best when he is neither seen nor heard, not so good when he is adored and glorified, worst when he is hated and despised.  But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, the people will say, “We did this ourselves.”
     —    Lao-Tzu
[If you elect an amoral con-man to be your President and he drives the country into deeper debt, continues to destroy the middle-class by transferring wealth to the top 1% and who engages in off-the-cuff twitter diplomacy, perhaps we should remind ourselves that “elections have consequences” and modify Lao-Tzu’s quote to:  “We did this TO ourselves.”    —    kmab]
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Hi Princess,
Here’s three quotes for your birthday:
I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
     —     William Penn
[Today counts!]
Kindness in words creates confidence.  Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.  Kindness in giving creates love.
     —     Lao-Tzu
[People matter!]
Keep hope alive!
     —     Rev. Jesse Jackson
[Faith restores!]
Happy Birthday!
We love you always,
Mum and Dad

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Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
     ―     Lao Tzu
[I find the struggle to be “compassionate toward yourself” to be a lifetime objective.   I guess that’s just the cowboy in me.    —    kmab]
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
    —    Lao Tzu
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He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them for himself.
     —    Lao Tzu
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Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become.
My father always said that… and I think I am fine.
    —     British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
[Although I disagreed with Maggie on almost everything she stood for in government, I recognize she was a powerful leader and a true force in politics during the later half of the 20th century.  Incidentally, other than the final line, there are multiple other sources for this quote including:  Emerson, Gandhi and Lao-Tzu.  So, it probably is just a well known expression Maggie’s dad passed on to her.    —    kmab]
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The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.
    —    Lao-Tzu
From:  “American Shaolin“;  Written by:  Matthew Polly
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