Lao Tzu Quotes

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

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• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Freedom
  • Blind
  • Conscious

• When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • True
  • Person
  • Playing

• It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Different
  • Present
  • Nothing

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Conscious
  • Become

• I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lives
  • Result
  • Conscious

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Conscious

• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Conscious

• Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Genius

• Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Remember
  • Progress
  • Conscious

• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Conscious

• If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Pain

• All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Art
  • Power
  • Faith

• Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Conscious

• It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Weird

• I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • People
  • Conscious
  • Importance

• One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Stop

• Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Things
  • Mindfulness

• My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Family
  • Acting
  • Fascination

• The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Problem
  • Struggle
  • Enough

• Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Energy
  • Ambition
  • Activity

• He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Conscious
  • Little Child
  • Paragon