Lao Tzu Quotes
Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.
Quotes to Explore
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
Mackenzie Astin
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
Barbara Cook
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
Wendy Kopp
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
Gaines Adams
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
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It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
Laetitia Casta
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
Ian Mckellen
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I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
Tavi Gevinson
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By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.
Wayne Gretzky
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I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
Larry Holmes
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I am a woman above everything else.
Jackie Kennedy
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To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.
Amanda Beard
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We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.
M. Russell Ballard
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
Andrew Solomon
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
Banana Yoshimoto
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A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.
Apolo Ohno
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I think this concern about a jobless recovery at this point is a bit premature,
Elaine Chao
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
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Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.
Marjorie Holmes
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This woman woke up to see me and John Stamos banging on her windows. She must have thought she died and went to sitcom hell.
Bob Saget
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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah
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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.
Sarah Dessen
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Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tzu