Lao Tzu Quotes

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

Don't get attached to anything.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

Don't get too attached to anything.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.