Lao Tzu Quotes

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

Lao Tzu

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• Strive
• Enmity

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Character

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Going

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Wanted

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Fit

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Death
  • Enough
  • Knows

• travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Strategic
  • Travesty
  • Defense Department

• Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

  

  William Allingham
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Feelings

• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Strive

• The potential for greatness lives within us all.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Greatness

• Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

  

  Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Wind
  • Opposition
  • Kite

• Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Virtue
  • Strive
  • Enmity