Lao Tzu Quotes

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

Lao Tzu

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• Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Sports
  • Essence
  • Through

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Artist
  • Essence
  • Mechanisms

• The very essence of success is practice.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Success
  • Practice
  • Essence

• I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Looks
  • Essence

• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Done
  • Practice

• Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Essence

• Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

  

  T. H. White
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Self

• The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Growing
  • Essence

• These humiliations are the essence of the game.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Game
  • Essence
  • Humiliations

• All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Pain
  • Compassion

• All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Essence

• I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Beginning
  • Humanity
  • Compassion

• What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Essence

• The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

  

  Ben Kweller
  • Think
  • Right
  • Decide

• Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.

  

  Ed Benguiat
  • Means
  • Long Time

• When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Thoughts
  • Tomorrow
  • Comes

• Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Business
  • Culture

• Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

  

  Lao Tzu
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