Top 56 Tao Ching Quotes
#1. Observe how endings become beginnings.
Laozi
#2. ain't nothing perfect but our brokenness
Rick Julian
#3. 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
#4. How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself
Lao-Tzu
#5. Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness
Lao-Tzu
#6. 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
#7. The more you talk of it, the less you understand.
Laozi
#8. The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.
Laozi
#9. He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
Laozi
#10. The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)
Robert Baohm
#11. Perfect tranquillity is the way of heaven and earth.
Lao-Tzu
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment.
Lao-Tzu
#16. 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
#17. Earth is a divine organism
it cannot be successfully manipulated
Who attempts manipulation will encounter defeat
Lao-Tzu
#19. 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
#20. To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Lao-Tzu
#21. Failure is our greatest teacher
Blame blinds us to her lessons
Rick Julian
#22. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Laozi
#23. Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.
Lao-Tzu
#24. Going forward seems like retreat ...
Laozi
#25. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.
Laozi
#26. The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#27. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Laozi
#28. Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Laozi
#29. For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts
Lao-Tzu
#30. 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
#31. Yielding, like ice about to melt.
Laozi
#32. He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.)
Harvey Spencer Lewis
#33. 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
#34. In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Laozi
#35. Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness
Lao-Tzu
#36. Peace is our original state
Lao-Tzu
#37. The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
Laozi
#38. Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life.
Lao-Tzu
#39. 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
#40. When there is no desire, all things are at peace
Laozi
#41. Love melts the hardest hearts
Enters between the cracks
Rick Julian
#42. 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
#43. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
Lao-Tzu
#44. He who is attached to things will suffer much.
Laozi
#45. Practice non-action. Work without doing.
Laozi
#46. 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
#47. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
Laozi
#48. Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang
Lao-Tzu
#49. The farther you go, the less you know.
Laozi
#50. The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
Laozi
#51. Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#52. When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.
Henry Chang
#53. To know non-knowing is optimal
to imagine one knows
is affliction of mind
Lao-Tzu
#54. 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
#55. When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
Lao-Tzu
#56. When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
Laozi
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
