Lao Tzu Quotes
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
Quotes to Explore
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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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!
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
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I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
