Lao Tzu Quotes

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Lao Tzu

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Approach

• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Fall

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• 'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

  

  Sally Field
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Cheers

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Career

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Democratic

• The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Father

• The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Society

• I don't have shame with my body. I don't find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

  

  Katherine Waterston

• Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Peace