Lao Tzu Quotes

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
  • Military

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Decision
  • Wonder

• The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Parents
  • Wonder
  • Thought

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

  

  Laura Miller
  • City
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Reality
  • Wonder

• I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Wonder

• Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Problems
  • Existence
  • Interests

• Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Afraid
  • Love Is
  • Destruction

• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wonder
  • Existence
  • Opens