If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. — Lao Tzu
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
In the original Chinese
不可为也，不可执也。 为 者败之
Tao Te Ching · 400 BC
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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 29.
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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 29.
