Lao Tzu Quotes

One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much.

Lao Tzu

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• The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Life
  • Loves
  • Roads

• He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Game
  • Morning
  • Loves

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Love
  • Today
  • Right

• See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • More
  • Will
  • Loves

• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Stage
  • Fine
  • Possession

• We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Time
  • Live
  • Man

• In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
  • God
  • Universe
  • Loves

• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Power
  • Excellence
  • Possession

• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Jesus
  • Desires

• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Art
  • Passion

• It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Independent

• Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Possession

• State law specifically prohibits possession of stun guns and related weapons, ... This agreement will help ensure that the Internet is not used to facilitate illegal activity.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Help
  • Law
  • Weapons

• The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Possession

• The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Choose
  • Loves

• I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Good
  • Know
  • Trucelent Means

• The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Spring
  • Best Way
  • Barks

• Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Islam
  • Contradiction
  • Moderates

• One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Loves
  • Possession
  • Material Goods