The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIWe are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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