Top Taoism Quotes Collection
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Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.Collection: Taoism
All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.Collection: Taoism
The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.Collection: Taoism
No disaster is worse than being discontented.Collection: Taoism
Those who boast are not respected.Collection: Taoism
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.Collection: Taoism
Behave simply and hold on to purity.Collection: Taoism
First and last follow each other.Collection: Taoism
Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.Collection: Taoism
When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.Collection: Taoism
Praise and disgrace cause fear.Collection: Taoism
The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.Collection: Taoism
He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.Collection: Taoism
Not valuing wealth prevents theft.Collection: Taoism
The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.Collection: Taoism
Movement overcomes cold.Collection: Taoism
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.Collection: Taoism
Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.Collection: Taoism
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.Collection: Taoism
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.Collection: Taoism
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.Collection: Taoism
The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?Collection: Taoism
The Tao principle is what happens of itself.Collection: Taoism
The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.Collection: Taoism
Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.Collection: Taoism
The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.Collection: Taoism
The Way is ever nameless.Collection: Taoism
That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.Collection: Taoism
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.Collection: Taoism
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.Collection: Taoism
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.Collection: Taoism
The truest sayings are paradoxical.Collection: Taoism
To be of few words is natural.Collection: Taoism
The separate parts make no carriage.Collection: Taoism
The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.Collection: Taoism
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.Collection: Taoism
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.Collection: Taoism
The Tao's principle is spontaneity.Collection: Taoism
Meet the big while it is small.Collection: Taoism
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.Collection: Taoism
Meet the difficult while it is easy.Collection: Taoism
The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.Collection: Taoism
Yielding is the manner of the Way.Collection: Taoism
Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.Collection: Taoism
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.Collection: Taoism
Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.Collection: Taoism
Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.Collection: Taoism
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.Collection: Taoism
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.Collection: Taoism
The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.Collection: Taoism