Quotes by Chuang Tzu


Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
– Chuang Tzu
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
– Chuang Tzu
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
– Chuang Tzu
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
– Chuang Tzu
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.
– Chuang Tzu
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
– Chuang Tzu
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.
– Chuang Tzu
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
– Chuang Tzu