Famous Zhuangzi Quotes

  • Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside. – Zhuangzi

    Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.– Zhuangzi

  • Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him? – Zhuangzi

    Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?– Zhuangzi

  • Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. – Zhuangzi

    Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.– Zhuangzi

  • Cease striving. Then there will be transformation. – Zhuangzi

    Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.– Zhuangzi

  • The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord. – Zhuangzi

    The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.– Zhuangzi

  • Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest. – Zhuangzi

    Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.– Zhuangzi

  • In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony. – Zhuangzi

    In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.– Zhuangzi

  • The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven. – Zhuangzi

    The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.– Zhuangzi

  • When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten – that may be called true forgetting. – Zhuangzi

    When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten – that may be called true forgetting.– Zhuangzi

  • The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak. – Zhuangzi

    The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.– Zhuangzi