Lao Tzu Quotes

The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

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• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Beautiful
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• Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

  

  Maripol
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• I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

  

  Diplo
  • People
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• It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

  

  Max Lucado

• You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Luck

• We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Good
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• I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • House

• Never index your own book.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Book

• In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

  Colson Whitehead
  • College

• Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Past

• In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.

  

  John Lanchester
  • People
  • Financial

• I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

  

  Chuck Liddell

• I prefer not to discuss politics for one reason: I'm absolutely sure that I understand nothing about politics.

  

  Danila Kozlovsky

• Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Black
  • Poverty
  • Pride

• Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • People
  • Together

• The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Faith
  • Baptism

• Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Rules
  • Sage

• The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sage
  • Honors
  • Settlement

• As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Water
  • Sage
  • Lotus

• If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

  

  William Law
  • World
  • Christian
  • Affection

• The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sees
  • Sage
  • Belly