Quote by Lao Tzu Download Open image ““if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?”” — Lao Tzu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“That is, of course, if we continued to delude ourselves that our bodies were our biggest problem.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.” — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon forgotten. We needed more troubles like… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
“Instead of dying, instead of slowly disappearing until only a broken body remained, what happened was quite the opposite - my body began to… — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
“They say when a calamity strikes you it stuns your normal senses so much that emotions are held in check. Perhaps that is what… — Preeti Shenoy Copy Share Image
“... Your body is not a tragedy. It is the only one you get, no matter how much it may challenge, confound, frustrate, or… — Lesley Kinzel Copy Share Image
“Every single part of me ached, sort of like the universe was exploding inside my skull, or like my body was tearing itself apart… — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“If you show yourself, you will not be seen. If you affirm yourself, you will not shine. If you boast, you will have no… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past; if you are anxious, you are living in the present; if you are at… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
