Lao Tzu Quotes

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

Lao Tzu

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• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Green

• My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Ocean
  • Consistent

• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • May
  • Always

• And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Why
  • Stop

• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Fly
  • Vegetarian

• The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Existence
  • Profound
  • Modern

• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer
  • Classroom
  • Closet

• They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Men
  • May

• The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Reward

• I know whites buy more records than blacks. So, I wanted to be able to make the most money that I could. Pop is for both whites and blacks, but if I just stuck to rhythm and blues, it's mostly for blacks. I didn't want to do that. So like I said, I wanted to get the most out of it that I could, so I thought that pop was the way to go.

  

  L.C. Cooke
  • Money

• We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Christian

• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Creatures
  • Loves

• One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Things
  • Desires
  • Loves

• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Victory

• I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Night
  • Halloween

• Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Loves
  • Dominate
  • Nourishes