Zhuangzi Quotes

Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.