Ancient Quote by Laozi

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived…

— Laozi

“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo

“What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.”

— Jane Hirshfield

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

— Charles Dickens

“In a little while the guest became sensible of the fragrance of the yet untasted coffee. He quaffed it eagerly. The subtle essence acted…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself,…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be…

— Anthony Trollope

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

— Laozi

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short…

— Laozi

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

— Laozi