(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. — Lao Tzu
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions. — Zhuangzi
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever. — Lao Tzu
The Tao principle is what happens of itself. — Lao Tzu
Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them. — Lao Tzu
When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself. — Lao Tzu
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. — Lao Tzu
The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao. — Lao Tzu
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone. — Ming-Dao Deng
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. — Lao Tzu
Pooh Quotes
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A. A. Milne
Piglet : How do you spell love?Poog : You don't spell it, you feel it.
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A. A. Milne
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. — A. A. Milne
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. — A. A. Milne
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. — A. A. Milne
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A. A. Milne
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered. — A. A. Milne
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it." — A. A. Milne
Tao Quotes
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right. — Lao Tzu
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. — Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. — Witter Bynner
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Lao Tzu
The more you know the less you talk. — A. R. Rahman
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. — Lao Tzu
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Mao Zedong
Book Of Tao Quotes
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve — Lao Tzu
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. — Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. — Lao Tzu
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Lao Tzu
Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu
Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations. — Lao Tzu
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. — Lao Tzu
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. — Lao Tzu
Tao Ching Quotes
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. — Lao Tzu
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled. — Lao Tzu
When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone. — Lao Tzu
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Lao Tzu
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. — Lao Tzu
In caring for others and serving heaven,
There is nothing like using restraint. — Lao Tzu
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. — Lao Tzu
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man. — Lao Tzu
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. — Lao Tzu
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. — Lao Tzu
You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are. — Benjamin Hoff
Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. — Benjamin Hoff
The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much. — Benjamin Hoff
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing. — Benjamin Hoff
Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. — Benjamin Hoff
While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is. — Benjamin Hoff
"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
"Wisdom from the Western Taoist," I said.
"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
"It is," I said.
"That's not about Taoism," he said.
"Oh, yes it is," I said. — Benjamin Hoff
If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh. — Benjamin Hoff
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does. — Benjamin Hoff
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal. — A. A. Milne
When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. — Benjamin Hoff
Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way. — Benjamin Hoff
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise. — Lao Tzu
The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge. — Benjamin Hoff
To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all there in front of you. But if you try too hard to see it, you'll only become confused. I am me and you are you. As you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the way. The way will follow you. — Benjamin Hoff
Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters. — Benjamin Hoff
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. — Benjamin Hoff
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work. — Benjamin Hoff
How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who. — Benjamin Hoff
A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. — A. A. Milne
A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning. — Benjamin Hoff
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive. — Benjamin Hoff
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk. — Benjamin Hoff
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. — Benjamin Hoff
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not. — Benjamin Hoff
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way. — A. A. Milne
A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good. — Benjamin Hoff
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with. — Benjamin Hoff
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff
There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it. — Benjamin Hoff
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