Lao Tzu Quotes

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

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• THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
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• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
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• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

  

  Zach Sobiech
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• A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
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• I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
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• Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

  

  Chris Matthews
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• We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
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• We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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• And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.

  

  Saddam Hussein
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• I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

  

  Paul Auster
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• Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

  

  William Cowper
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• All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
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• When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

  

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