351 Quotes About Taoism

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes - it has no preferences in the world of externals.

I do not assert that it is logically impossible for a person to be both moralistic and humane, but I have yet to meet one who is!

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes it law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say 'We did it ourselves.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.