Lao Tzu Quotes

Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

Lao Tzu

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Home
  • Game
  • Play

• With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

  

  Parker Posey
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Help

• It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Future
  • Earth

• After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Done
  • Way
  • Care

• Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • People
  • Time
  • Inheritance

• When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Looks

• When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

  

  William McFee
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Emotional

• Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Succeed
  • Election
  • Complicated

• Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Failure
  • Problems

• I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • People
  • Choice
  • Telling

• I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Life
  • Fall

• Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowing
  • Royal
  • Tao