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

• Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.

  

  Nikita Koloff
  • Dream
  • Destiny
  • Follow

• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  

  Elisabeth Eaves
  • Hate
  • Choices
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• In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Culture
  • Word
  • Lonely

• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fails

• The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Blessed

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

  

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