Lao Tzu Quotes

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

A true man hates no one.

I take the good; I take the bad. I don't outweigh them. I just try to balance it all.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day...children die of hunger.... Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

I hate nobody.

To be social is to be forgiving.