Lao Tzu Quotes

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

Lao Tzu

• Life
• Universe
• Transforms

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• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Decisions

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Universe

• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Outside

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Life
  • Change
  • Marriage

• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Mission
  • Craftsmanship

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, 'Man',And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hero

• I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,before he'd ever learned how to talk.And I don't know what his name wasbut my mother does,I heard her say it once, she said,'Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:you cried but no-one came.'

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • She
  • Mother
  • Brother

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I love hard singing.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Singing

• The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Transforms