Lao Tzu Quotes

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Lao Tzu

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• My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Now
  • Beer
  • Solution

• Regulation creates a moral hazard.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Regulation
  • Hazard

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • More
  • Works
  • Arabic

• When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Brother

• The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Beauty

• I like what I've seen. He's a very quiet, respectful kid but when he plays, he plays hard.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Hard
  • Kid
  • Plays

• How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Time
  • Freaks

• The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Women
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Plants
  • Edible
  • Herbalism

• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Patience
  • Preaching

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

  

  Keith Haring
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

  

  Michel Faber
  • Advantage
  • Mercy
  • Grants

• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Stuck
  • Okay

• Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.

  

  Alfred Capus
  • Happiness
  • Thing
  • Resigned

• Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Profit
  • Abandon
  • Thieves