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 closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Reality
  • Distance
  • Myth

• The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us nothing about the historical Jesus and the world he and his disciples lived in. I've heard it said, that if all we had was the Gospel of Thomas, would we even know that Jesus was Jewish?

  

  Craig A. Evans
  • World
  • Historical
  • Ignored

• There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Absence
  • Hated
  • Fights

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

  

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