Top Tao Te Ching Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Tao Te Ching quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
- Laozi
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The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.
- Laozi
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
- Laozi
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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
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
- Laozi
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Observe how endings become beginnings.
- Laozi
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He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
- Laozi
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If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
- Laozi
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...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
- Laozi
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
- Laozi
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The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
- Laozi
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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
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
- Laozi
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If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
- Laozi
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If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
- Laozi
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