Top 100 Ching's Quotes
#1. The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching's universe and then ten thousand more.
Cheryl Strayed
#2. The more you talk of it, the less you understand.
Laozi
#3. The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.
Laozi
#4. I decide to go out and spend all my money on underwear, then throw them about the room to
decide my fate like a satiny, lace-gusseted I Ching. Let the gods of Beau Bra decide.
Belle De Jour
#5. It may occasion surprise that the decree of a temporal power sufficed to give the classics a position that can be compared in other cultures to the place of sacred scriptures inspired by divine revelation.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#6. And don't trouble yourself too much if you don't laugh at what you are about to read, for if you perk up your pink little ear, you may hear the silvery tinkling of merriment in the air, far, far away ... It's us, buster. Ching!
The Harvard Lampoon
#7. The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
Chick Corea
#8. To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze
"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
#9. In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
Manohla Dargis
#10. Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness
Lao-Tzu
#11. How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself
Lao-Tzu
#12. Every day, mindful practice. When the mind is disciplined then the Way can work for us. Otherwise, all we do is talk of Tao; everything is just words; and the world will know us as its one great fool.
Li Ching-Yuen
#13. ain't nothing perfect but our brokenness
Rick Julian
#14. Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.
Frederick Lenz
#15. There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment.
Lao-Tzu
#16. Fuck you, Jack Ching," David Emerson swore. He found the keys were still in the ignition, and turned them. "Yeah. It's jackalope season, motherfucker.
Chad Huskins
#17. When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
Laozi
#18. When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
Lao-Tzu
#19. Revere the unity of all-that-is
carry out your daily activities with compassion;
if you do not limit your compassion,
you yourself will not be limited.
Lao-Tzu
#20. The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment - that is the way.
Wu Wei
#21. When you loved someone, it was impossible to believe they were hopeless.
G.P. Ching
#22. I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
Gail Carriger
#23. The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.
Hua Ching Ni
#24. To know non-knowing is optimal
to imagine one knows
is affliction of mind
Lao-Tzu
#25. When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.
Henry Chang
#26. Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching.
Philip K. Dick
#27. Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#28. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Laozi
#29. Home meant a sanctuary, as common and taken for granted as the sun rising in the morning.
G.P. Ching
#30. 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
#31. When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
Eddie Huang
#32. The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.
Carol Anthony
#33. To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.
Wu Wei
#36. We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made.
I-Ching
#37. Earth is a divine organism
it cannot be successfully manipulated
Who attempts manipulation will encounter defeat
Lao-Tzu
#38. It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.
Hua Ching Ni
#39. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.
Wu Wei
#40. To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task
I-Ching
#41. Observe how endings become beginnings.
Laozi
#42. To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.
Wu Wei
#43. It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and by acting on that basis, it will follow, unerringly, that for us, it will be so.
Wu Wei
#44. Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out-paces all things: we call it "thought." I can fill a room a with light before I'm anywhere near the switch.
Laurie Perez
#45. The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.
Fritjof Capra
#47. 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
#48. Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#49. Perfect tranquillity is the way of heaven and earth.
Lao-Tzu
#50. The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)
Robert Baohm
#51. He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
Laozi
#52. Chaos is another name for opportunity
I-Ching
#53. Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life.
Lao-Tzu
#54. The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
Laozi
#55. The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.
Frederick Lenz
#56. Peace is our original state
Lao-Tzu
#57. Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness
Lao-Tzu
#58. My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
P. J. O'Rourke
#59. He'd survived by following two very important rules: don't feel anything and don't expect anything from anyone.
G.P. Ching
#60. When you didn't have the ocean or mountain to keep you busy, he supposed you hurled pumpkins.
G.P. Ching
#61. A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.
Wu Wei
#62. One who practices virtue and selflessness should not hold any particular idea in his mind about how to fulfill his virtue, for virtue is the very nature of one's being.
Lao-Tzu
#63. In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Laozi
#64. The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!
David Pogue
#65. A guy who cooked, cleaned and looked good while doing it? Cha-ching.
Hailey Edwards
#66. The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.
Laozi
#67. During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.
Ching Hai
#68. He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.)
Harvey Spencer Lewis
#69. The hardest thing you will ever do in life is to know for sure what is true.
G.P. Ching
#70. In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes or a quantity of space displaced by the mass of the building.
Francis D.K. Ching
#71. Yielding, like ice about to melt.
Laozi
#72. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
Scott Westerfeld
#73. Mr. Ching claims the superiority of Chinese hand-and-foot fighting, and promises ocular proof of such.
Y.S. Lee
#74. You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
Rosie O'Donnell
#75. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
Lao-Tzu
#76. ...in the presence of God, it is less important who is right than what is right.
G.P. Ching
#77. Practice non-action. Work without doing.
Laozi
#78. The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
Laozi
#79. The farther you go, the less you know.
Laozi
#80. The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.
Hua Ching Ni
#81. Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.
I-Ching
#82. Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang
Lao-Tzu
#83. The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.
Wu Wei
#84. To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.
Wu Wei
#85. I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
I.M. Pei
#86. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
Laozi
#87. I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass.
Stephen King
#88. Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Lao-Tzu
#89. Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#90. He who is attached to things will suffer much.
Laozi
#91. For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts
Lao-Tzu
#92. If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
Philip K. Dick
#93. Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.
Kelly Link
#94. Love melts the hardest hearts
Enters between the cracks
Rick Julian
#95. But I am dead certain
ba-dump-bump-ching
that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side ... and had them start off screaming, BOO!
Jim Butcher
#96. When there is no desire, all things are at peace
Laozi
#97. Let freedom ka-ching ... Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.
Stephen Colbert
#98. A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.
Ching He Huang
#99. Instead of trying to be a mountain, teaches the ancient Tao Te Ching, "Be the valley of the universe."4 In this way, you are restored to wholeness and so "all things will come to you.
Eckhart Tolle
#100. Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog
Li Ching-Yuen
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