Lao Tzu Quotes

Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.

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• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Satisfied
  • Well

• I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Think
  • Changing
  • Satisfied

• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • God
  • Satisfied

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Satisfied

• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Turning Point

• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Like
  • More
  • Knowing

• I'm never satisfied.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Will
  • Satisfied

• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Satisfied

• Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Knowing
  • Looking
  • Youth

• Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Day
  • Year
  • Knowing

• Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

  

  May Sinclair
  • Reality
  • Lose
  • Knowing

• We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Together
  • Words

• I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Words
  • Water
  • Mean

• Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Knowing

• When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong.

  

  Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
  • Children
  • Knowing
  • Escaping

• How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Spirit
  • Knowing

• I have a strong preference for being alive.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Strong
  • Alive
  • Preference

• The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Ambitions
  • Governs

• Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Girl
  • Voice
  • Forget

• Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowing
  • Satisfied