Inspiring Eastern Philosophy Quotes (Taoism)

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”

- Lao Tzu

"The journey of a thousand mile begins with a single step"

-Lao Tzu

"As soon as beauty is known by the world as beautiful, it becomes ugly. As soon as virtue is being known as something good, it becomes evil. Therefore being and non-being give birth to each other. Difficult and easy accomplish each other. Long and short form each other. High and low distinguish each other. Sound and tone harmonize each other Before and after follow each other as a sequence."

-Lao Tzu

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away." 

- Zhuangzi

"When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?"

-Zhuangzi

"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean."

-Zhuangzi

"When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets."

-Zhuangzi