Zhuangzi Quotes

• Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

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• Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

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• 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.

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• A path is made by walking on it.

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• If you are cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

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  Tags in Expect, Find

• The tree I planted a while back in the village of nothingness. It must be huge by now.

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• Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Satisfaction, Charity, Satisfy, Mankind, Mind

• Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

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• Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Sphere, Lies, Honor, Realize, Men

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Returns

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

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• 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?

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• 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.

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  Tags in Butterfly, Dreaming

• Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

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  Tags in Zen, Centered, Mind

• All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

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

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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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  Tags in Happinesss, Absence

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

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Zhuangzi (21)

Birth:	369 BC
Death:	286 BC
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Philosopher

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Zhuangzi, also known as Zhuang Zhou, was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, a period corresponding to the philosophical summit of Chinese thought — the Hundred Schools of Thought.

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