Lao Tzu Quotes
Heavy is the root of light.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Gail Sheehy
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
Kate Smith
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Vincent Cassel
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
Orlando Bloom
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
Sam Abell
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Carl Sagan
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
Ted Dekker
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
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I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
D. J. Cotrona
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
Garrett Hedlund
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Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled,And care is light, for Thou hast cared;Let not our works with self be soiled,Nor in unsimple ways ensnared.Through life's long day and death's dark night,O gentle Jesus! be our light.
Frederick William Faber
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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They accused me of anything, anything at all, but they had no evidence.
Abdul Salam Zaeef
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If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.
Jack McDevitt
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There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
Charles Dickens
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Heavy is the root of light.
Lao Tzu