Quotes by Zhuangzi

Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

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 a man.

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.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

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 within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.”