Quotes: Lao Tzu

"Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer

Source: Tao Te Ching 

via Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 118.

Quotes: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever." 

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

Source: Tao Te Ching

via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 34. 

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"He who knows when he has enough is wealthy."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

Source: Globe and Mail, Saturday November 14, 2020.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 34.

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them –– that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."  

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 57.

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." 

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

via Sketchbook 13, 2010. p. 45

Quotes 341: Lao Tzu

"If you tell me, I will listen.

If you show me, I will see.

If you let me experience, I will learn." 

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 77