Lao Tzu Quotes

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

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• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • River

• I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Imagination
  • Gone

• I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Work
  • Health
  • Environment

• You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

  

  George Clooney
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Made

• If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Said
  • Impossible
  • Order

• No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Alcohol
  • Cigarettes
  • Pork

• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

  

  Virginia Johnson
  • Social
  • Medicine
  • Draws

• Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

  

  Euripides
  • Men
  • Anger
  • Gods

• The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

  

  Euripides
  • Gods
  • Venom
  • Medicines

• You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Company
  • Faces
  • Pictures

• The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Projection
  • Anatomists

• I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Difficulties
  • Refusal
  • Back away

• Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Artist
  • Inspiration
  • Poets

• He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

  

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