Taoism Quotes - Page 4

• For those who reflect on themselves, everything they encounter is medicine. For those who attack others, every thought is a weapon. One is the way to initiate all good, one is the way to deepen all evil. They are as far apart as sky and earth.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sky, Medicine, Evil

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

  Laozi

  Practice, Feet, Care

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

  Laozi

  Way, Virtue, Lost

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• The light of the Way seems dim.

  Laozi

  Light, Way, Seems

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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.

  A. A. Milne

  Morning, Food, Pigs

  A.A. Milne (1973). “Winnie-the-Pooh”

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• Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Struggle

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• Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

  Laozi

  Country

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• In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.

  Mantak Chia

  Love, Inspirational, Best Friend

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• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

  Laozi

  Honesty, Enlightening, Being Honest

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• Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Perfect, World

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Meditation, Feel Good, Doing Nothing

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Journey, Difficult And Easy

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• Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

  Laozi

  Lasts, Sharpness, Edges

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• True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, True Words

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• Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Play, Sick

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• When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

  Laozi

  World, Ugly

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• Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

  Laozi

  Misery

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