Tsu's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

Don Johnson

#4. I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

Kevin Mitnick

#5. I think all of this - The Roots and DJing included - was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

Questlove

#6. If she ever again heard the sound of water splashing, she would turn and walk the other way. Ogling a naked man? How could I have been so daft?

Amy Jarecki

#7. Who you are as a person has to do with what you think and how you feel. It has to do with how you love and how you care for people.

Scott Weiland

#8. Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.

Natasha Lester

#9. May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

Marquis De Lafayette

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is safe to assume that he is not interested in the same type of radio that amused him before the war.

Judith C. Waller

#15. Isn't that petty?"
"Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu decide to confront each other, vistas of pettiness open up that you and I can barely comprehend.

Eleanor Arnason

#16. 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

#17. 'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

Dr. Seuss

#18. Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

Frederick Lenz

#19. 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

#20. Ask me to cut off my right arm for you, and I'll do it. Ask me to lay down my life for you, and I'll do it. But Please don't ask me to give you up now that I've found you again. Don't ask that, Amy

Catherine Anderson

#21. I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.

Alan De Jager

#22. 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

#23. Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

Ric Flair

#24. 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

#25. It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

Aimee Mann

#26. Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

Frederick Lenz