The main scripture for Taoists is the 2500 year old Tao Te Ching, a beautiful text split into 81 chapters. Here are Taoism quotes from the book and which Chapters they come from, your book may have a slightly different translation. These come from the public version.

They are split into the main themes from the book:

* Non-action
* Acting in accordance with nature
* The Tao
* Principles to live by

Non-Action (aka Wu-Wei)

Therefore the Master
can act without doing anything
and teach without saying a word.
Things come her way and she does not stop them;
things leave and she lets them go

-Chapter 2

That which offers no resistance,
overcomes the hardest substances.
That which offers no resistance
can enter where there is no space.

Few in the world can comprehend
the teaching without words,
or understand the value of non-action

-Chapter 43

One who seeks knowledge learns something new every day.
One who seeks the Tao unlearns something new every day.
Less and less remains until you arrive at non-action.
When you arrive at non-action,
nothing will be left undone

-Chapter 48

Acting in accordance with nature

The supreme good is like water,
which benefits all of creation
without trying to compete with it.
It gathers in unpopular places.
Thus it is like the Tao.

Acting In Accordance With Nature

-Chapter 8

Nature uses few words:
when the gale blows, it will not last long;
when it rains hard, it lasts but a little while;
What causes these to happen? Heaven and Earth.

-Chapter 23

Water is the softest and most yielding substance.
Yet nothing is better than water,
for overcoming the hard and rigid,
because nothing can compete with it.

-Chapter 78

The Tao

The Tao is like an empty container:
it can never be emptied and can never be filled.
Infinitely deep, it is the source of all things.
It dulls the sharp, unties the knotted,
shades the lighted, and unites all of creation with dust.

-Chapter 3

The Tao of the universe
does not compete, yet wins;
does not speak, yet responds;
does not command, yet is obeyed;
and does act, but is good at directing.

-Chapter 73

The Tao of Heaven works in the world
like the drawing of a bow.
The top is bent downward;
the bottom is bent up.
The excess is taken from,
and the deficient is given to.

-Chapter 77

Principles To Live By

Alert as if surrounded on all sides by the enemy.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Whole as an uncarved block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Turbid as muddied water.

-Chapter 15

Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.

-Chapter 19

If you want to become new,
first let yourself become old.
Those whose desires are few get them,
those whose desires are great go astray.

-Chapter 22

Who is able to give to the needy from their excess?
Only someone who is following the way of the Tao.

-Chapter 77