Lao Tzu Quotes

The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

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• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Rest

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• 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

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Seems
  • Wash

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Morning

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Theory

• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Earth
  • Land
  • Presence

• Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • She
  • Morning
  • Silence

• Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Actress
  • Movie Star
  • Crawford

• I started writing songs at age 15.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Started

• The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Changed
  • Transformation
  • Scared

• The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Tao