Tao Te Ching Quotes

Tao Te Ching Quote of the day

The more you know the less you talk.

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

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

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

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

The heart that gives, gathers.

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

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

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

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

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

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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

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?

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

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

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

The more you know the less you understand.

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

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

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

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

Observe how endings become beginnings.

The more you know, the less you carry

The farther you go, the less you know.

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

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

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

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

Going forward seems like retreat.

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

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

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

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

A man with outward courage dares to die

To think, or not to think...This is the true question.

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons