Lao Tzu Quotes

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

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• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Man
  • Heaven

• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Want

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
  • Prayer

• I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Treat
  • Sexuality

• Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Hair
  • Treat

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Care

• Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Health
  • Player
  • Problems

• Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Treat
  • Medical

• There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Think
  • Desire

• I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heaven
  • Thought
  • Year

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cancer

• I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Purity

• Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Fight

• The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Brain

• When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Power
  • Imagination

• The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • May
  • I Love

• Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heaven
  • Creatures
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