Taoism Quotes

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,bu...

(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he ...

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and ...

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful an...

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right,...

As long as some sufferThe River Flows ForeverAs long as there is painThe River Flows ForeverAs stron...

They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The p...

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is a...

If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and...

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those wh...

Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, "This thing called the Way - where does it exist?"Zhuangzi said, "The...

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guard...

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursu...

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comforta...

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harm...

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon wha...

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but...

You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, sp...

A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little ...

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its ...

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself...

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Thoug...

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things th...

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged ...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

A child, obeying his father and mother, goes wherever he is told, east or west, south or north. And ...