Zhuang Zhou

The one who is scared of dying is but a lost child looking for his home

Zhuang Zhou

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.

Zhuang Zhou

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

Zhuang Zhou

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Zhuang Zhou

The tao is made because we walk it, things become what they are called.

Zhuang Zhou

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

Zhuang Zhou

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

Zhuang Zhou

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

Zhuang Zhou

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.

Zhuang Zhou

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Zhuang Zhou