Quotes About Taoism Water

#1. When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

Zhuangzi

#2. Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Frank Sinatra

#5. The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

Laozi

#8. Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

#9. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Patricia Duncker

#10. For some, death is the midwife to faith. For others, it is faith's executioner.

Rick Yancey

#11. Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Obscure, like muddy waters.

Laozi

#13. Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

John Wooden

#14. Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Lao-Tzu

#17. Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.

Zicheng Hong

#18. When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

Frederick Lenz

#19. your quest?" Darius stepped inside. "I should

J.R. Ward

#20. I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

Grace Cavalieri

#21. Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Fiona and Jarl had gotten engaged a few weeks before, on Black Friday. Jarl thought they could get a better deal on rings that way.

J. Ryan Stradal

#23. Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

Frederick Lenz