Taoism Quotes - Page 15

• Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

  Laozi

  Four, Stills

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

  Laozi

  Acting, Sage, Perceive

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• Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

  Laozi

  Country, War, Justice

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• I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

  Laozi

  People

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• Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

  Laozi

  Sight, Sage, Carts

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• Meet the difficult while it is easy.

  Laozi

  Easy, Difficult

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• Meet the big while it is small.

  Laozi

  Bigs

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• The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

  Laozi

  World, Easy, Difficult

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• The brittle is easy to shatter.

  Laozi

  Easy

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• The small is easy to scatter.

  Laozi

  Easy

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• What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

  Laozi

  Easy

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• Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

  Laozi

  Toes, Steady

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• Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

  Laozi

  Long, Pace, Steps

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• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

  Laozi

  Extravagance, Excess, Sage

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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

  Laozi

  Light, Doors, Dust

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• Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

  Laozi

  Deprivation, Deprived

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• The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

  Laozi

  Sage, World, Harmony

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• Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

  Laozi

  Knowing, Clarity, Harmony

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• Praise and disgrace cause fear.

  Laozi

  Causes, Praise, Disgrace

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• Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

  Laozi

  Weakness, Causes, Losing

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• Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

  Laozi

  Baby, Newborn, Breaths

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• The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

  Laozi

  Baby, Newborn, Virtue

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• When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

  Laozi

  Children, Ties, Arise

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  Laozi

  Ties, People, Return

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• Yielding, like ice about to melt.

  Laozi

  Ice, Tao Ching, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi, Burton Watson, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (1993). “Dao de Jing”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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