The Longest Journey Begins With A Single Step Quote

Quote for the Day: “The longest journey begins with a single step.” Lao Tsu. Your long term goal and vision may seem far away, but the journey. Inspirational Quotations offers a collection of famous quotes by Emerson, Thoreau, Charles Dickens, Confucious, and Helen Keller. An e-zine, free frameable quotes and a contest are also offered. I will always take another step. The longest journey starts with a single step.

As with most other ancient Chinese thinkers, Lao Tzu's way of explaining his ideas often uses paradox, analogy, appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition, symmetry, rhyme and rhythm. The writings attributed to him are poetical and dense. In this quote, Lao Tzu is trying to express that great things start from humble beginnings. In the original, the text refers to '1,000 li journey'. A li is an old Chinese measure of distance which converts to 360 miles or 576 km.e.

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Little is known about Lao Tzu's life. His historical existence is strongly debated, as is his authorship of the seminal Taoist work, Tao Te Ching. Some legends say he was born with white hair, having spent eight or eighty years in his mother's womb.

According to tradition, Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius and worked as an archivist in the Imperial Library of the Zhou Dynasty court during the 6th century BC. Confucius intentionally or accidentally met him in Zhou, where Confucius was going to browse the library scrolls. According to these stories, Confucius discussed the cornerstones of Confucianism with Lao Tzu. The latter strongly opposed what he felt to be hollow practices, hence the birth of Taoism. Lao Tzu is an important culture hero in China.