Tao Te Ching Quotes:

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

- Henry Chang

topic: Heart, Tao Te Ching, Trying

The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

- Cheryl Strayed

source: Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Tao Te Ching, Thousand, Reserves

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.174, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Mlm, Fearless, Tao Te Ching, Lack Of Empathy, Aboriginal

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

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Learning, Tao Te Ching, Knowing Others, Tao Ching

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

- Laozi

source: Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

topic: Education, Tao Te Ching, Intelligence, Sharpness, Tao Te Ching Leadership

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

- Laozi

topic: Not Caring, People, Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Tao Te Ching Leadership

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

- Laozi

topic: Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Wise Words

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Desire, Mystery, Book Of Tao

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Past Present Future, Anxiety Depression, Depression And Anxiety, Present Life

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

topic: Evil, Giving, Tao Te Ching, Tao Wisdom, Book Of Tao

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

- Laozi

topic: Thinking, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Yes And No, Overthinking

Observe how endings become beginnings.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom, Tao Te Ching Leadership

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!

- Laozi

topic: People, Leader, Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Tao Te Ching Leadership

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Desire, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Trying, Ruins, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom

Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

- Laozi

topic: Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching, Sharpness, Primal

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

- Laozi

topic: Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching Leadership, Book Of Tao

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.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Desire, Never Expect, Tao Ching

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Book Of Tao

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Done, Pursuit Of Knowledge, Tao Ching

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

- Laozi

topic: Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching, Book Of Tao

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom

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

- Laozi

source: Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

topic: Mother, Heaven, Tao Te Ching, Nameless, Tao Ching

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Saints And Sinners, Tao Te Ching Leadership, Book Of Tao

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

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Want, Tao Ching

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

- Laozi

topic: Giving, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Book Of Tao

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Tao Te Ching, Doe, Tiptoes, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom

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

- Laozi

source: Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

topic: Names, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Tao Wisdom, Book Of Tao

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

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Tao, Tao Ching

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

- Laozi

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Used, Tao Te Ching Leadership, Book Of Tao