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

• To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
  • Great
  • Singing

• Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• I didn't know anything about running gear when I started out, but after trying a few shoe brands, I've discovered that Brooks are my preferred shoes.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Shoes

• Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

  

  Carol Gilligan
  • Men
  • Women

• 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