Lao Tzu Quotes

The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

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• Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Always
  • Process

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Help
  • Pretty

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
  • Sexual

• Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • Should
  • Responsible

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • End
  • Hands
  • Him

• I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Speak

• I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Powerful

• This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Today
  • Death

• I would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay.

  

  Lisa See
  • Broken
  • Married
  • Clay

• The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Freedom
  • Opposites
  • Would Be

• It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Character
  • Failure
  • Common

• Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Possessing

• All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.

  

  Carlos P. Romulo
  • Life
  • World
  • Friend

• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Persons

• I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

  

  Arthur Miller

• But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Knowledge
  • Painful
  • Flames

• The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Course
  • Ruled
  • Interfering