Taoism Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Behave simply and hold on to purity.

  Laozi

  Purity, Behave

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• Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

  Laozi

  Writing, People, Rope

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• Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

  Laozi

  Emptiness, Steadfast, Stillness

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• Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

  Laozi

  Fate, Source, Eternal

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• Stillness is the ruler of haste.

  Laozi

  Haste, Rulers, Stillness

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• Stillness is easy to maintain.

  Laozi

  Easy, Stillness

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• A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

  Laozi

  Multitudes, Tiresome

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• Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  People, Tasks, Quiet

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• To be of few words is natural.

  Laozi

  Few Words, Natural

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• Peace and quiet govern the world.

  Laozi

  World, Quiet, Peace And Quiet

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• Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

  Laozi

  Faults, Conflict

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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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