Lao Tzu Quotes
Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.
