"Loss is not as bad as wanting..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
More by Lao Tzu
“A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
“To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.”
More on Desire
“We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.”
“The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.”
“The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.”