Taoism Flow Quotes

#1. So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

Zhuangzi

#2. If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Ming-Dao Deng

#3. 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

#4. As long as some suffer
The River Flows Forever
As long as there is pain
The River Flows Forever
As strong as a smile can be
The River will Flow Forever

Tupac Shakur

#5. knows how this will end: but assuredly in one extreme or the other. There can be no medium between those who have loved so much.

Jon Meacham

#6. My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

Rachel Holmes

#7. Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

Selma Blair

#9. It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Ming-Dao Deng

#10. Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Laozi

#11. There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

Tahj Mowry

#12. They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much.

Chaim Potok

#13. Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.

Frederick Lenz

#15. The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Michelangelo

#16. I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Lauren Willig