I just happened upon this list of quotes that were extremely good...I had been looking for lao tzu's one about patience on google and typed in "patience tao three"   Thank you, Matthew, for the inspirational thoughts. On this Palm Sunday, this first day of spring, this day of troubled news from many parts of our world, I find myself in great need of hope and inspiration to fill my mind and soul with healing thoughts, so that I can help do my part to heal the soul of our country, our world.   With that in mind, I offer these thoughts from those masters whom I consider wise.   Peace and joy and love and light. Peace, peace, peace.   madame defarge *************     If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. -- Thich Nhat Hanh   You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mahatma Ghandi   It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -- Confucius   It is better to live one day ethically and reflectively than to live a hundred years immoral and unrestrained. -- Buddha   Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -- Mahatma Gandhi   Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let us not beg for the stilling of the pain but for the heart to conquer it. -- Rabindranath Tagore   A man becomes like those whose society he loves. -- Hindu proverb   I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. -- Lao-tzu   When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways -- either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. -- Dalai Lama   At the end of the way is freedom. Till then, patience. -- Buddha