Lao Tzu Quotes

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
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• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
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• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
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• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
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• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
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• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • History
  • Past
  • Perspective

• The weather still continues charming.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Weather
  • Charming
  • Continues

• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Present

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
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• Clothes and manners do not make the...

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Manners

• One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • She
  • Night

• What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Hell
  • Farmers
  • Corn

• We must cling only to drawing.

  

  Nicolas de Stael
  • Drawing

• The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
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• The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Slave
  • Southern
  • Imaginary

• The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desires
  • Disaster
  • Discontent