Lao Tzu Quotes
In order to contract, It is necessary first to expand. In order to weaken, It is necessary first to strengthen. In order to destroy, It is first necessary to promote. In order to grasp, It is necessary first to give. This is called subtle light. The weak and the tender overcome the hard and the strong.Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael -
Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
Usain Bolt -
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
Pamela Stephenson -
I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
Nadia Comaneci -
If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Ori Gersht
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom -
What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
Patrick J. Adams -
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
R. Kelly -
I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
Samuel Larsen -
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
Navid Negahban
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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
Harry Browne -
Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
Cameron Russell -
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
Edmund White -
This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
Indira Gandhi -
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
Alan Watts
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What else is soul but a listener?
William H. Gass -
“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.
Courtney Milan -
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman -
Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
Hannah Arendt -
Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet.
Rachel Caine -
In order to contract, It is necessary first to expand. In order to weaken, It is necessary first to strengthen. In order to destroy, It is first necessary to promote. In order to grasp, It is necessary first to give. This is called subtle light. The weak and the tender overcome the hard and the strong.
Lao Tzu