Quote by Alan Weisman

“it is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.”

— Zen Proverb

“The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.”

— Lao Tzu

“The great Tao (or way) is very level and easy; but people love the by-ways.”

— Lao Tzu

“I still don’t know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,”

— Randall Munroe

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.”

— Lao-Tzu

“Therefore the Tao is great;”

— Lao Tzu

“The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack; Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back; Its even way is like a rugged…

— Lao Tzu

“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.”

— Lao Tzu

“In Taoism, we drop things. Since our infancy, we have learned many things that separate us from the universe. We worry about trivial matters,…

— Qiguang Zhao

“It has been my experience that the "hardest" people in the world are actually the most fragile and the most soft-spoken are the strongest...”

— Charles M. Blow

“This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).”

— Lao Tzu