The Tao Te Ching 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. When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.

Henry Chang

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself

Lao-Tzu

#8. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

Laozi

#9. Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness

Lao-Tzu

#10. 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

#11. The more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Laozi

#12. The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

Laozi

#13. The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Robert Baohm

#14. Perfect tranquillity is the way of heaven and earth.

Lao-Tzu

#15. The more you know the less you talk.

A.R. Rahman

#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. The best runner leaves no tracks. - Tao Te Ching

Christopher McDougall

#18. 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

#19. Failure is our greatest teacher
Blame blinds us to her lessons

Rick Julian

#20. There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment.

Lao-Tzu

#21. 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

#22. Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

Laozi

#24. The farther you go, the less you know.

Laozi

#25. Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang

Lao-Tzu

#26. For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts

Lao-Tzu

#27. Love melts the hardest hearts
Enters between the cracks

Rick Julian

#28. 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

#29. The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

Laozi

#30. In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Laozi

#31. 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

#32. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

Lao-Tzu