Lao Tzu Quotes
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Warren Rudman
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar al-Assad
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
Haley Bennett
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Kuang
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The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
Leonard Peikoff
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things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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You just have to want to do it. I don't know how but I know that it has to be done. I know if we get frustrated and start turning on each other that it is only going to get worse.
Allen Iverson
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People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
Lisa See
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Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!
Amy Poehler
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
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By our everyday actions, by our unwillingness to admit our mistakes and sins, we Christians have declared God dead - perhaps without even realizing it. For is we no longer want to humble ourselves before God and man, acknowledging our sins, if we no longer want to repent, we do not need a living Savior.
Basilea Schlink
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
Steve Waugh
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Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
Deepika Padukone
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
Lao Tzu
