Laozi Daodejing Quotes & Sayings

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires. — Francis Thompson

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality. — H.G.Wells

There is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable! — Ann Bridge

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference. — Edward T. Hall

Deeper? Are you trying to bruise her liver?

~Eric — Olivia Cunning

One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school. — Anna Louise Strong

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust — Vladimir Nabokov

Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low on the evolutionary scale. They want to experience the joy of destroying something. — Frederick Lenz

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized. — Haim Ginott

Maybe I was just born to argue with men. — Johann Lamont

I remembered the story Evan the cobbler had told me, about the two headstreams of Dwy Fawr and Dwy Fach which are said to flow right through the lake, far down in its dark depths, never mingling their waters with its own. The two rivers, according to Evan, said Austerlitz, were called after the only human beings not drowned but saved from the biblical deluge in the distant past. — W.G. Sebald

The right shoe left, knowing that the left shoe was right. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt