Lao Tzu Quotes

Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

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• I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Working
  • Out
  • Incapable

• Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Me
  • Place
  • Everything

• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Money
  • Song
  • Show

• Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.

  

  Daniel Adair Nickelback
  • Great
  • Me
  • Position

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Teenagers

• If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Kiss

• The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Talking

• Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Fool

• When you don't use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I'm not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn't worth it.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Energy
  • Sweet
  • Stress

• Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Cry
  • Silent
  • Spares

• I've made it eminently clear, anyone who walks away will be sued, ... It will take me 10 minutes to sign a complaint, we'll be in court.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Court
  • Complaint
  • Eminently

• I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Succeed

• My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Nature
  • Funny
  • Boy

• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Communication
  • Familiarity
  • Apathy

• No one can say when this will end.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • End
  • Say

• This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • World
  • Long
  • Feelings

• Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Behinds
  • Dust
  • Meteors

• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Dust
  • Union
  • Openings