Lao Tzu Quotes
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Quotes to Explore
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.
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I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.
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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
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The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
