Top 100 Quotes About Lao
#1. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.
Chloe Thurlow
#2. Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu
Brandon Shire
#4. During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
Bo Gritz
#5. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
Scott Westerfeld
#6. If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse
Gerald M. Weinberg
#7. 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.
Henry Miller
#8. There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul
Colin Cotterill
#9. 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.
Christopher Moore
#10. Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.
Frederick Lenz
#11. If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one's forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.
Liu Cixin
#13. Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu
The RZA
#14. If there is peace in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." - Lao Tse
Emmett E. Miller
#15. Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.
Frederick Lenz
#17. If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu
Avan Jogia
#18. The greatest carver does the least cutting. LAO-TZU
Phil Jackson
#19. Lao-tzu, that master of the law of reversed effort, who declared that those who justify themselves do not convince, that to know truth one must get rid of knowledge, and that nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness - from which men shrink.
Alan W. Watts
#20. 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.
William Carlos Williams
#21. The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kingdom. Lao-tsu replied that he should rule the kingdom in the way you would cook a small fish. How do you cook a small fish? In the steady, cautious, caring way you undress a woman.
Chloe Thurlow
#22. Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.
Frederick Lenz
#23. I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
Wayne Dyer
#24. To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze
"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#27. I dreamed I was a butterfly. I didn't know if I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I was a man." Lao-Tsu
John Isaac Jones
#28. Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.
Frederick Lenz
#29. What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Wayne Dyer
#30. There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself.
Sebastian Sim
#31. I wanted a good place to settle:
Cold Mountain would be safe.
Light wind in a hidden pine -
Listen close - the sound gets better.
Under it a gray haired man
Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao.
For ten years I havn't gone back home
I've even forgotten the way by which I came.
Gary Snyder
#32. I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
Leo Tolstoy
#33. 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.
Rajneesh
#34. The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#35. Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#36. Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.
James Legge
#37. For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#38. You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#40. Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.
Frederick Lenz
#41. Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer what is intricate and artificial. - Lao Tzu
Dan Millman
#42. Lao Tzu
The key to growth is the introduction
of higher dimensions of consciousness
into our awareness.
Lao-Tzu
#43. Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced "ooh-way." This is a state of spontaneous flow.
Anonymous
#44. Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse.
Frederick Lenz
#45. To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu
Richard Koch
#47. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings ~ Lao Tzu.
Tammara Webber
#48. The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.
Geoffrey Gorer
#49. Things' essences all there endure.
Lao-Tzu
#50. Stop thinking, and end your problems.
Lao-Tzu
#51. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.
Lao Chang
#52. Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao-Tzu
#53. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.
Lao-Tzu
#54. 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
#55. Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak.
Lao-Tzu
#56. Racing and hunting madden our minds.
Lao-Tzu
#57. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want.
Lao-Tzu
#58. It produces them and does not claim them as its own;
Lao-Tzu
#59. What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain.
Lao-Tzu
#60. Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght.
Lao-Tzu
#61. The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity.
Lao-Tzu
#62. the representative committee,
Lao She
#63. I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao-Tzu
#64. Something can be beautiful, if something else is ugly.
Someone can be good, if someone else is bad.
Lao-Tzu
#65. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe.
Lao-Tzu
#66. In the next age they loved them and praised them.
Lao-Tzu
#67. When man learns that man is man's greatest asset he will serve his fellowman instead of killing him as he does now for material values.
Lao Russell
#68. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.
Lao-Tzu
#69. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
Lao-Tzu
#70. Pursue that which is not meddlesome.
Lao-Tzu
#71. Whoever knows what is enough Will be happy with his fate.
Lao-Tzu
#72. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.
Lao-Tzu
#73. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.
Lao-Tzu
#74. Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.
Lao-Tzu
#75. Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life.
Lao-Tzu
#76. He who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.
Lao-Tzu
#77. Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet.
Lao-Tzu
#78. Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.
Lao-Tzu
#79. The great Tao is universal like a flood ... All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.
Lao-Tzu
#80. He who conquers other has force; he who conquers himself has strength.
Lao-Tzu
#81. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.
Lao-Tzu
#82. It might appear to have been before God.
Lao-Tzu
#83. True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.
Lao-Tzu
#84. Heaven and Earth (under its guidance) unite together and send down the sweet dew, which, without the directions of men, reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord.
Lao-Tzu
#85. Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.
Cristina Garcia
#86. It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.
Lao-Tzu
#87. Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.
Lao-Tzu
#88. The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.
Lao-Tzu
#89. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.
Lao-Tzu
#90. An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao-Tzu
#91. From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;
Lao-Tzu
#92. Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue.
Lao-Tzu
#93. The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.
Lao-Tzu
#94. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding
Lao-Tzu
#95. A good traveler leaves no tracks.
Lao-Tzu
#96. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Lao-Tzu
#97. The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao-Tzu
#98. Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao-Tzu
#99. To lead people, you must follow behind.
Lao-Tzu
#100. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.
Lao-Tzu
