Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching Quotes & Sayings

If you were older, darlin', I'd have you on the back of my bike and in my fuckin' bed. And you'd be not just likin' it, but lovin' it, beggin' me for more. — Madeline Sheehan

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have. — Duffy

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching — Scott Westerfeld

For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts — Lao-Tzu

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence. — Wayne Dyer

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic. — Andre Rieu

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Revere the unity of all-that-is
carry out your daily activities with compassion;
if you do not limit your compassion,
you yourself will not be limited. — Lao-Tzu

Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness — Lao-Tzu

Earth is a divine organism
it cannot be successfully manipulated
Who attempts manipulation will encounter defeat — Lao-Tzu

To know non-knowing is optimal
to imagine one knows
is affliction of mind — Lao-Tzu

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like. — Scott Speedman

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad. — Lao-Tzu

Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious. — Lao-Tzu

Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang — Lao-Tzu

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures. — Lao-Tzu

Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life. — Lao-Tzu

Perfect tranquillity is the way of heaven and earth. — Lao-Tzu

How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself — Lao-Tzu

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever. — Lisa Unger

There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment. — Lao-Tzu

I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him. — Sharon Olds

Peace is our original state — Lao-Tzu

Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness — Lao-Tzu

According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1 Lao-tzu is said to have been the author of the Tao Te Ching, a short book of aphorisms, setting forth the principles of the Tao and its power or virtue (Te e). But traditional Chinese philosophy ascribes both Taoism and Confucianism to a still earlier source, to a work which lies at the very foundation of Chinese thought and culture, dating anywhere from 3000 to 1200 B.C. This is the I Ching, or Book of Changes. — Alan W. Watts

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

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay. — Lao-Tzu