Lao Tzu Quotes
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
Quotes to Explore
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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An untested faith is an unreliable faith.
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I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.
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When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
