Quotes About Ancient China

#1. In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.

Mantak Chia

#2. What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Wayne Dyer

#3. I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Shan Sa

#4. Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

Hu Shih

#5. When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.

John Fusco

#6. to my father's amazement, was an ancient but clearly recognizable painting of Marco Polo, who must have visited Huai'an during his thirteenth-century travels about China. The priest asked my father to donate a picture of Jesus for his collection, and, after thinking about it, Daddy did.

Katherine Paterson

#7. The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life
what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#8. Get haven to my house and fix her before your son resorts to resuscitating people just to kill them again.

J.M. Darhower

#9. Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#10. Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker

Anthony Trollope

#11. For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#12. There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue.

Andrew Lang

#13. China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

L. Ron Hubbard

#14. China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Chiang Kai-shek

#15. Dying in your arms sounds like bliss to me.

Amy A. Bartol

#16. There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double lines are derrived from a still later anaysis.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#17. Everyday I see a little more of my father in me..

Keith Urban

#18. I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

Joe Taslim

#19. Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.

Ramez Naam

#21. So considering how the current official religion of China seems to be something like "Stand still while we bulldoze your house to build this dam" it's hard to put a finger on the relationship between ancient Chinese tales and any specific religion.

Cory O'Brien

#22. There are no rules.
Love.
Survival.
Truth.
Freedom.
I write my words. I savor them. They have taste and strength and memory and rhythm.
Outside my window, I see the morning star. And I watch it until it winks out in the light of dawn.

Katherine Longshore

#23. The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

Ruth Reichl

#24. Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!

Fei Fei Sun

#25. In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.

Mary McFadden

#26. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Mendis

#27. I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

Robert Herjavec

#28. But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

Bernadette Devlin

#29. Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Oswald Chambers

#30. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Shan Sa

#31. Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

Alexander Pope

#32. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

#33. I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

Paul Robeson

#34. How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

Patrick Suskind