Taoism Quotes - Page 7

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

High and low rest on each other.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Simple, like uncarved wood.

I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.

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

Return animosity with virtue.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines.

Meet the difficult while it is easy.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

The most able seems clumsy.

Conquering the world and changing it, I do not think it can succeed.