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.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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?
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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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.
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an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
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Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
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Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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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!
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
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All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
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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.
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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.
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You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.
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If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
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I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.
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The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
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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.
