Taoist Taoism Quotes & Sayings

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. — Wilhelm Frick

You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."
"Had politeness beat into me. — Lorraine Heath

I wasn't sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus. — Jerry Pinto

"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
"Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said.
"It is," I said.
"That's not about Taoism," he said.
"Oh, yes it is," I said." — Benjamin Hoff

It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions. — Alan W. Watts

I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. — John Green

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress. — Henry Ward Beecher

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy. — David Steinberg

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions — Dennis Prager

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. — Evel Knievel

It seems that wishing and hoping and dreaming and remembering can be eve more helpful than knowing what's going to happen. — Melissa Senate

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. — Alan W. Watts

Religion
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
And we won't have it kicking over the traces again. — Christopher Fry

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled! — Tullian Tchividjian

Her lips curved up then, as if she liked his answer. "Are you working tomorrow?"
Dax nodded. "Yeah. Training stuff." He was running weapons-training exercises with three of his guys and a small team of DEA agents. They liked to do joint operations, especially in Miami, where there was a smorgasbord of government agencies. But he couldn't tell her that.
"When do you get off?"
The way she said "get off" brought up all sorts of images. Hannah must have read his expression, because she shook her head. "Pervert," she muttered.
He grinned, liking the camaraderie between them, as if part of that wall she'd erected had been knocked down. — Katie Reus