Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
ZHUANGZIBut 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The eyes envy the mind.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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