Tao te ching Quotes · Page 2

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

— Laozi

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

— Laozi

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

— Laozi

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

— Laozi

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

— Laozi

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

— Laozi

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

— Anonymous

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just…

— Anonymous

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”

— Lao Tzu

There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.

— Anonymous

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

— Laozi

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

— Laozi

“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”

— Lao Tzu