Lao Tzu Quotes

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

Lao Tzu

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • News
  • Excited
  • Entertainment

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Nice
  • Advantage

• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Laws
  • Legal
  • Houses

• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Thought

• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • True
  • Animal

• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Way

• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Past
  • Forgiveness

• There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Power
  • Words
  • Powerful

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Like

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Women
  • Power
  • Age

• My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Time
  • Father
  • Freedom

• Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Long

• All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• 'Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards'.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Words
  • Suffering
  • Fly

• A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wind
  • Crack
  • Triumphant