56 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Zhuangzi
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
A path is made by walking on it.
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
The sound of water says what I think.
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.
The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.
You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained, but not seen. 可傳而不可受,可得而不可見.
He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.