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Life Quotes by Laozi
- Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus…
- Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
- In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be…
- Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best…
- Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and…
- To have little is to possess.
- The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
- Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and…
- Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your…
- Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
- How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no…
- Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when…
- A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they…
- When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you…
- Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and…
- When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
- If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.
- The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.…
- The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
- The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
- Watch your thoughts, they become words...
- We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death…
- Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.
- People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
- Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle