Lao Tzu Quotes
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Quotes to Explore
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
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There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
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The flower of olden sanctities.
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Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.
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Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
