Lao Tzu Quotes

The best fighter is never angry.

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• The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Today
  • Hate
  • Challenge

• If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Feels
  • For Her

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Angry
  • Blessings

• I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Give
  • Fighter

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Attention
  • Government

• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Angry

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Care

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • You
  • Angry
  • Horse

• I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Think
  • Angry

• I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Problem

• After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Reading

• I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Worry
  • Confident
  • Fighter

• My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• Taha rose from his chair feeling angry for the first time since they...

  

  Zakaria Tamer
  • Feeling
  • Angry
  • Rose

• I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Arts
  • Degree
  • Culinary

• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Different
  • Christian
  • Interest

• Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Ocean

• The best fighter is never angry.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Angry
  • Fighter