Lao Tzu Quotes

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

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• Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
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• One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Music
  • Country
  • Inside

• Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Mind
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  • Believes

• As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

  

  Allan Carl Newman
  • Good
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• We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hope
  • Growth
  • Lifetime

• It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Matter

• Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Life is

• If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

  

  Paul Auster

• Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Sexuality

• They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Killing
  • Holocaust
  • Cartoons

• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Wish
  • Study
  • Genius

• The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

  

  William Harvey
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Body

• In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Opinion
  • Share
  • Election

• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Islam
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• The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.

  

  Carol Haney
  • Talent
  • Happens
  • Recognition

• Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Contrast is the dramatist's method.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Method
  • Contrast

• The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

  

  Lao Tzu
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