Zhuangzi on fortune
Zhuangzi149 quotes“Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.”
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
ZhuangziZhuangzi 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.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
ZhuangziZhuangzi A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
ZhuangziZhuangzi The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
ZhuangziZhuangzi When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
ZhuangziZhuangzi All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
ZhuangziZhuangzi The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
ZhuangziZhuangzi The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
ZhuangziZhuangzi He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MoliereMoliere It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PetrarchPetrarch How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PetrarchPetrarch Character is itself a fortune.
Samuel SmilesSamuel Smiles He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance.
Abdul Qadir GilaniAbdul Qadir Gilani He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom
Abdul Qadir GilaniAbdul Qadir Gilani Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
Samuel SmilesSamuel Smiles Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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