Lao Tzu Quotes
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
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Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.
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People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.
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Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.
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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
