Lao Tzu Quotes
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
Quotes to Explore
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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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.
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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.
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We need workfare over welfare.
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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.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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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.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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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.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.
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I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I’ve experienced and cultures that I don’t know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.
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Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
