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Lao Tzu Quotes
A true friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future
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A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her
If cats could talk, they wouldn't
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
I told you I'll be ready in FIVE minutes, stop calling me every half hour
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I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken






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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 (Lao Tzu Quotes)
He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Act without expectation (Lao Tzu Quotes)
A good traveler has no fixed plans (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment (Lao Tzu Quotes)
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms (Lao Tzu Quotes)
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened (Lao Tzu Quotes)
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders (Lao Tzu Quotes)
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire (Lao Tzu Quotes)
To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed (Lao Tzu Quotes)
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise (Lao Tzu Quotes)
The journey of a thousand li starts from where one stands (Lao Tzu Quotes)
The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet (Lao Tzu Quotes)
The more we give to others, the more are we increased (Lao Tzu Quotes)
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves (Lao Tzu Quotes)
A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of Earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet (Lao Tzu Quotes)
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won’t break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon (Lao Tzu Quotes)
The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don’t choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? - don’t choose! That’s why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu’s famous dictum: ‘Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.’ All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale (Lao Tzu Quotes)
[The Master] doesn’t glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone (Lao Tzu Quotes)
If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I’ve forgotten the road by which I came (Lao Tzu Quotes)
LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love (Lao Tzu Quotes)
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things. (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy (Lao Tzu Quotes)
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’ (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others. (Lao Tzu Quotes)
There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao. (Lao Tzu Quotes)
Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger. (Lao Tzu Quotes)