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Laozi – be yourself

Soul Quote / Henan, China / 604 BC-531 BC / Photographer - Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Swiss Alps near Swiss-Italian-border, Switzerland / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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The snow goose need not bathe
to make itself white.

Neither need you do anything
but be yourself.

– Laozi

 

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