I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao Tzu

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell

I've been things and seen places.
Mae West

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West

Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais Nin

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde