Tao Te Ching Quotes - Contradictions

Reality is subtle...Contradictions aren't really contradictions. All good things contain something bad, and vice versa. Giving is receiving, dying is living... The Tao...

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)

Gravity is the source of lightness,
Calm, the master of haste.
Tao Te Ching

In order to master people
One must speak as their servant;
In order to lead people
One must follow them.
Tao Te Ching

A lone traveller will journey all day, watching over his belongings;
Only safe in his own bed may he lose them in sleep.
Tao Te Ching

Nature is not kind;
It treats all things impartially.
Tao Te Ching

Fill a cup to its brim and it is easily spilled;
Temper a sword to its hardest and it is easily broken;
Amass the greatest treasure and it is easily stolen;
Claim credit and honour and you easily fall;
Retire once your purpose is achieved - this is natural.
Tao Te Ching

Too much colour blinds the eye,
Too much music deafens the ear,
Too much taste dulls the palate,
Too much play maddens the mind,
Too much desire tears the heart.
Tao Te Ching

Both praise and blame cause concern,
For they bring people hope and fear.
The object of hope and fear is the self -
For, without self, to whom may fortune and disaster occur?
Therefore,
Who distinguishes himself from the world may be given the world,
But who regards himself as the world may accept the world.
Tao Te Ching

Accept and you become whole,
Bend and you straighten,
Empty and you fill,
Decay and you renew,
Want and you acquire,
Fulfill and you become confused.
The ancients said, "Accept and you become whole",
Once whole, the world is as your home.
Tao Te Ching


Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady;
Display yourself and you will not be clearly seen;
Justify yourself and you will not be respected;
Promote yourself and you will not be believed;
Pride yourself and you will not endure.
Tao Te Ching


Those who wish to change the world
According with their desire
Cannot succeed.
The world is shaped by the Way;
It cannot be shaped by the self.
Trying to change it, you damage it;
Trying to possess it, you lose it.
So some will lead, while others follow.
Some will be warm, others cold
Some will be strong, others weak.
Some will get where they are going
While others fall by the side of the road.
Tao Te Ching

Who is brave and bold will perish;
Who is brave and subtle will benefit.
The subtle profit where the bold perish
For Fate does not honour daring.
And even the sage dares not tempt fate.
Fate does not attack, yet all things are conquered by it;
It does not ask, yet all things answer to it;
It does not call, yet all things meet it;
It does not plan, yet all things are determined by it.
Fate's net is vast and its mesh is coarse,
Yet none escape it.
Tao Te Ching

Bible Quotes

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120].

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5].

The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Deuteronomy 31:8

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7].

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Ecclesiasticus (ch. IX, v. 10)

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Psalms (ch. XC, v. 12)

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25].

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 6)

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11].

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 22)

Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Peter (ch. III, v. 8-9)

I will praise the Lord no matter what happens. I will constantly speak of His glories and grace. I will boast of all His kindness to me. Let all who are discouraged take heart. Let us praise the Lord together and exalt His name.
Psalm 34:1-3

Weeping may go on all night, but in the morning there is joy.
Psalm 30:5

The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Timothy (ch. VI, v. 10)

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7)

Birthday Quotes

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
H. V. Prochnow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. Ellen Glasgow

Sing a song of BirthdaysFull of fun and cheerAnd may you keep on having themFor many a happy year.
Anonymous

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
Anon

It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
English Proverb

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Albert Schweitezer

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. Alexander Pope

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Fred Astaire


Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. - Rudyard Kipling
It is better to wear out than to rust out. - Bishop Richard Cumberland

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. - William Shakespeare

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents. - Blair Sabol

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau





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