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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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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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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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.
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You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
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Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.
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It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
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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.
