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Life Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.
- Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
- If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally…
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and…
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it…
- Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.
- Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual…
- We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we…
- Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:
- Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.
- The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
- The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to…
- Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed…
- Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos.…
- Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this…
- Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition…
- The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
- Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness…
- Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?
- Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right…
- Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be,…
- You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy…
- Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do.
- To not realize that everyone we think about affects us psychically, to not realize that life is a field of power, is criminal, in my…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle