Taoism Quotes - Page 3

• The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.

  Laozi

  People, Balance, Way

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Positivity, Chinese

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, Penguin

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• If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Knowledge, Eye

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  Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

  Laozi

  Education, Tao Te Ching, Intelligence

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

  Laozi

  Fighting, Quality, Receiving

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• Returning is the movement of the Way.

  Laozi

  Movement, Way

  Lao Tzu, Laozi, William Scott Wilson (2012). “Tao Te Ching: An All-new Translation”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

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• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thought Provoking

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.117, Chinese University Press

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• The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

  Laozi

  Law, Criminals, Written

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• Seeing the small is called clarity.

  Laozi

  Clarity, Seeing

  Laozi (2015). “Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching”, p.123, Open Court

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• Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

  Laozi

  Love, Self, World

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• Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

  Laozi

  Mind, Steps, Book Of Tao

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suggestions, Categorization, Enjoy

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• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Dream, Wisdom

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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• "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
  "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
  "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
  "It's the same thing," he said.
  "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
  "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
  "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
  "It is," I said.
  "That's not about Taoism," he said.
  "Oh, yes it is," I said.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Wisdom, Morning, Food

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.

  Laozi

  People, Sage, Helping

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• When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

  Laozi

  Goal, Heaven, Way

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• Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

  Laozi

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

  Laozi

  Overcoming, Substance, Resistance

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• No disaster is worse than being discontented.

  Laozi

  Tao, Disaster

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Laozi

  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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• When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.

  Zicheng Hong

  Kings, Attitude, Powerful

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• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Wise Words

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