Lao Tzu Quotes

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Lao Tzu

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• One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Happiness
  • Self
  • Open

• Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• We need workfare over welfare.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Need
  • Over
  • Welfare

• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Christian

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Ballet
  • Dancer
  • Fosse

• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
  • Cost

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Want
  • Best
  • Car

• In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Life
  • Want
  • Issue

• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Own
  • Limits

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Different
  • Black
  • Amazing

• I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Free
  • Way
  • Security

• But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Heart
  • Someone
  • Loving

• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonder

• Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Being
  • Loving
  • Attachment