Happiness Quotes by Zhuangzi

12 Happiness quotes by Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi’s ancient voice whispers a quiet stillness that still feels fresh today. In twelve brief passages, the Taoist sage offers a gentle reminder that true joy often lives in letting go rather than grasping.

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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

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To have a human form is a joyful thing.

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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless…

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Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study…

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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is…

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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.…

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Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being…

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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.…

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When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that…

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