Tao Quotes

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

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

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

The more you know the less you talk.

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

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

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the one who is feared. The worst one is the leader that is despised ... The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly. When they have accomplished their task, the people say, "Amazing! We did it, all by ourselves!

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

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.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

The Tao is told is not the Tao.

In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.