Zhuangzi Quotes

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• Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
• My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
• If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
• 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…
• Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence…
• The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he…
• Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
• Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am…
• 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…
• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
• Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that…
• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought…
• Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external…
• The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the…
• If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that…
• Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions…
• So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said,…
• To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

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