Lao Tzu Quotes

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.

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• Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Self
  • Most

• I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Power
  • Running

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Beginning
  • See
  • Benefits

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Heart
  • Start
  • Soccer

• Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Respect
  • More
  • Give

• I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Interesting
  • Politics
  • Find

• As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Know
  • Sound

• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Plan

• In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Country
  • Politics

• It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • American
  • Only

• Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Book
  • Moral

• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • High
  • Worry
  • motivation

• I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

  

  Tina Weymouth

• Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Disagree
  • Enlightened
  • Free Press

• I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against Barack Obama, actually.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Barack Obama
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Campaigned

• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learned
  • Enlightened
  • Drop