Tao Te Ching Translation Quotes & Sayings

Champions get up! When you're down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you! — Les Brown

In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates. — May Sarton

You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great. — Rainer Maria Rilke

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive. — Richard Trumka

I wasn't so inclined to tell anyone else in my family about my plan. It was very new and felt about as vulnerable as a day-old mouse, its eyelids still sealed shut. — Jeanne Ray

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. — Ben Bernanke

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The soul is awakened through service. — Erica Jong

faith is an internal tug-of-war, not an external fight. — Elisa Medhus

You don't want to wear any styles that are too young ... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters. — Jerry Hall

Laws are broken. Existence holds to no laws. Existence is what persists, and to persist is to struggle. In the end, the struggle fails. — Steven Erikson