Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called…

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first.…

— Demi Lovato

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.”

— Lao Tzu

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and…

— Henry Miller

“For the Christian tradition, the heart’s true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom…

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the…

— Anthony de Mello

The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao…

— Rajneesh

If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is…

— Hanshan

“Take time for the clearance of the mind, preparing for adherence to perseverance for the journey of another thousand miles.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It’s not about lighting up every shadow or chasing certainty. Rather, it’s learning to trust the stillness where nothing is visible—because that’s often where…

— Monica Laura Rapeanu

“When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All…

— William Carlos Williams

“Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.”

— Cristina Garcia

The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but…

— Geoffrey Gorer

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for…

— Leo Tolstoy