Lao Tzu Quotes

Returning to the source is serenity.

Lao Tzu

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Youth
  • Serenity
  • Smiling

• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Phone
  • Returning

• When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Performance
  • Zero
  • Returning

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Philosophy

• 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Source
  • Fish

• He would give up then, and console himself with something she’d said: that you could not love what you fully understood. Love, she maintained, was a process, not a state. Held still, it withered. He wasn’t too sure about all that; he seemed to have found a calm clear serenity in himself he hadn’t even known was there, thanks to her.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • She
  • Calm

• I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Peace
  • Die
  • Serenity

• I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

  

  Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
  • Serenity

• I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

  

  Ann Jillian
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Faith

• I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Time
  • Serenity

• To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Control

• It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.

  

  David Lange
  • Life
  • Up
  • Funny

• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Good
  • Why
  • Truth

• But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Training

• What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

  

  David Guterson
  • People
  • Time
  • Serenity

• As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

  

  Muriel Rukeyser
  • Source
  • Communicate
  • Fierce

• Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Women
  • Negroes
  • Republican Theory

• And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Helping
  • Extraordinary

• It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • People
  • Problem
  • Opinion

• Returning to the source is serenity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Source
  • Serenity
  • Returning