Tao Te Ching Quotes: top 42 famous quotes about Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching Quotes & Sayings

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

For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts — Lao-Tzu

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The farther you go, the less you know. — Laozi

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao. — Laozi

There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment. — Lao-Tzu

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. — Laozi

Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious. — Lao-Tzu

Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness — Lao-Tzu

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. — Laozi

He who is attached to things will suffer much. — Laozi

Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life. — Lao-Tzu

When there is no desire, all things are at peace — Laozi

Practice non-action. Work without doing. — Laozi

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad. — Lao-Tzu

To know non-knowing is optimal
to imagine one knows
is affliction of mind — Lao-Tzu

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up. — Laozi

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. — Lao-Tzu

How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself — Lao-Tzu

Observe how endings become beginnings. — Laozi

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. — Laozi

Going forward seems like retreat ... — Laozi

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm. — Laozi

Love melts the hardest hearts
Enters between the cracks — Rick Julian

Peace is our original state — Lao-Tzu

Perfect tranquillity is the way of heaven and earth. — Lao-Tzu

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching) — Robert Baohm

The more you talk of it, the less you understand. — Laozi

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. — Laozi

Earth is a divine organism
it cannot be successfully manipulated
Who attempts manipulation will encounter defeat — Lao-Tzu

Failure is our greatest teacher
Blame blinds us to her lessons — Rick Julian

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu

Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness — Lao-Tzu

Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang — Lao-Tzu

The best runner leaves no tracks. - Tao Te Ching — Christopher McDougall

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.) — Harvey Spencer Lewis

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. — Laozi

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

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

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi

The more you know the less you talk. — A.R. Rahman

ain't nothing perfect but our brokenness — Rick Julian