Taoism Quotes - Page 2

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

Every step is on the path.

The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

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

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

To have enough of enough is always enough.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

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

I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.