Finding the Way Quotes

“We roamed among people blinded by too much color, deafened by too much music, whose palates were dulled by too many tastes, and whose hearts were torn asunder by too much desire.”
― Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu

“Your Highness, were I to desire to change the world, I could not succeed. The world is shaped by the Way; the self cannot shape it. Trying to change it, you damage it; trying to possess it, you lose it.”
― Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu

“Captain, be content with what you have and who you are, and no one can despoil you. Then you shall forever be safe and secure.”
― Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu

“Sir, leadership is not the exertion of power and control alone. Rather it is the strategic use of enlightened thought and well-intentioned actions.”
― Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu

“At school (father) had excelled in music, mathematics, rituals and writing, cultivating his mind as finely as wind sculpts pebbles smooth and round.”
― Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu