Lao Tzu Quotes

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

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• On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • New Things

• My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Elbow

• You can't take yourself too seriously.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'

  

  Marc Guggenheim

• I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Up
  • School
  • Brain

• I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

  

  Colin Firth
  • America
  • Confused

• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Chicago

• You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

  

  Corazon Aquino
  • People
  • Help
  • Freedom

• Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

  

  John Grogan
  • Time

• I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Good
  • Long

• In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • People
  • Life
  • Future

• I don't have a lot of friends.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Friends
  • Lots Of Friends

• The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Peace
  • Christianity

• There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Water
  • Dark
  • Sun

• O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Pain
  • Teach
  • Nations

• Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Morning
  • Awake
  • Joys

• How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • People
  • Like
  • Deal

• Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Why

• A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Consciousness
  • Correct
  • Wrongdoing

• Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Correct
  • Delusions
  • Ominous