Lao Tzu Quotes

Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • You
  • Always
  • Yourself

• My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Problem
  • Short

• I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Bubble

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Courage

• She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • She
  • Bad

• Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Time

• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Aesthetic

• Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Words

• Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.

  

  Clifford D. Simak

• I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Kids
  • Shopping

• Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • Vacation

• I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Why

• Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Life
  • Team

• The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

  

  Joseph Butler
  • May

• If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it's not a problem, because you get as much as I do. The problem is that capital in capitalist countries is very heavily concentrated, especially financial capital. So then if the share of income from that source goes up, that actually exacerbates inequality.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Problems
  • Income
  • Inequality

• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Prayer
  • Stream
  • Superficialities