More from Lao Tzu
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.
Lao TzuLao Tzu There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Lao TzuLao Tzu He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
Lao TzuLao Tzu One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
Lao TzuLao Tzu When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Lao TzuLao Tzu If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Lao TzuLao Tzu The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao TzuLao Tzu We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Lao TzuLao Tzu When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
Lao TzuLao Tzu Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
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Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.
Brian TracyBrian Tracy Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
MenciusMencius All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
Eric ThomasEric Thomas How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
Lucille BallLucille Ball Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.
Brian TracyBrian Tracy The right decisions come from the right focus. You’ll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.
Robert KiyosakiRobert Kiyosaki We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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