Lao Tzu Quotes
The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
Victoria Moran
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
Adam Jones
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
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Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
Octavio Paz
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
George Eliot
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When things are going good, you've got to enjoy it, right?
Marco Scutaro
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I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.
James Turrell
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The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.
Margaret Heffernan
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
Lao Tzu