Lao Tzu Quotes
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.
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'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.
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Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Man is a substance clad in shadows.
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Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.
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We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.
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If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
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The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.
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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
