Lao Tzu Quotes

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.

Lao Tzu

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• I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Percent

• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Light
  • Responsibility

• It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

  

  Mary Violet Heberden
  • People

• How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

  

  Lisa See
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Minds

• I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Good
  • Women
  • Lost

• I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I expect people to at least use some thought.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
  • Use
  • Expect

• We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Important
  • Book
  • Help

• One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.

  

  Zachary Schomburg
  • Past
  • Ocean

• Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences

  

  Annie Ernaux
  • Moment
  • Write
  • Accident

• I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Political
  • Moments

• on the creation myth This is a wonderful story that was told to the people in the desert, in order to distract them from the fact that they did not have air conditioning. I would love to have the faith to believe that it took place in seven days, but... I have thoughts. And that can really fuck up the faith thing. Just ask any Catholic priest.

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Eternity
  • Stillness
  • Reveals