Lao Tzu Quotes
Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Lao Tzu
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
W. S. Merwin
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
W. S. Merwin
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
May Sinclair
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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.
A. S. Byatt
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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
Zadie Smith
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no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
William Landay
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He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
Michael Morpurgo
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What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
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Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.
Ella Leya
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What is there that money will not do?
Anthony Trollope
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Lao Tzu
