Lao Tzu Quotes

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

Lao Tzu

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• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Help
  • Win
  • New York

• I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Women
  • Love
  • For Him

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Distance

• A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Mother

• But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Father
  • Adventure

• There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

  

  Phil Niekro

• Many artists would want a major label. But, if someone made you big, it doesn't mean they're no longer good enough when you get big. If you want to add, add. But don't get rid of your original team.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Good
  • Team

• All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • Free
  • Wisdom

• You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

  

  David Lyons
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Life
  • Society
  • Progress

• At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Work
  • Education

• It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

  

  Bernard Pivot
  • Adventure

• What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

  

  Martin Short
  • Great
  • Character
  • Forever

• I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Control

• He understood whatever those hidden mechanisms are that convince people to trust you. I kind of watched him and absorbed what I could from him.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
  • Trust

• Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Different
  • May
  • Night

• The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Beings

• I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • True
  • Fear
  • Dad

• Youve just got to go with what you have in your pants.

  

  Nicolas Colsaerts
  • Have
  • Got
  • Pants

• Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Beings
  • Illuminating
  • Radianting