Lao Tzu Quotes

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

Lao Tzu

• Hope
• Energy
• Forever
• Dreams
• Direction

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• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

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• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

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• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

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• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

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• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

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• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

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• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

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• I believe in forgiveness.

  

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• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Forever