More from Lao Tzu
To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Lao TzuLao 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
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Alicia KeysAlicia Keys My approach to acting now is so different — I’m fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision — now, I don’t care.
Jessica AlbaJessica Alba Even if we all want you here, you don’t belong until you decide you do.
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Christian BaleChristian Bale When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn’t involve a magic spell.
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