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This collection holds 551 taoism quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Laozi, Frederick Lenz and Zicheng Hong.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Laozi

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Our seeing is sexual initially.

The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

True words seem false.

Initially there's absolutely nothing.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

The Way to do is to be.

Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.

Act without expectation.

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

Dignified, like a guest.

We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

Movement overcomes cold.

Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

The Way is ever nameless.

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

Stillness overcomes heat.

When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.

Every step is on the path.

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

Simple, like uncarved wood.

Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

Pursue without interfering.

Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

The most able seems clumsy.

The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

Heavy is the root of light.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

The great image lacks shape.

There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

Return animosity with virtue.

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

The small is easy to scatter.

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

Stillness is easy to maintain.

Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

The rigid tree will be felled.

To be of few words is natural.

Yielding is the way of the Tao.

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