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.
ZHUANGZITake care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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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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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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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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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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