Zhuangzi quote: "Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea I was Chuang Tzu. Then suddenly I woke up and was Chuang Tzu again. But I could not tell, had I been Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I was now Chuang Tzu? However, there must be some sort of difference between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly!"

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I wa...
CHUANG TZU

Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)
SUNG YEE POON

Socrates would ask penetrating questions, analyzing everything, and everybody in Athens became angry...
OSHO

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attac...
ZHUANGZI

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you a...
CHUANG TZU

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purp...
ZHUANGZI

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who ...
ZHUANGZI

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who ...
CHUANG TZU

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
ZHUANGZI

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
CHUANG TZU

In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When t...
CHUANG-TZU

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the s...
CHUANG TZU

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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 per...
CHUANG TZU

Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way t...
CHUANG TZU

All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is ...
CHUANG TZU

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man b...
CHUANG TZU

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you a...
CHUANG TZU

The torch of doubt and chaos is what the sage steers by.
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

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They ...
CHUANG TZU

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever yo...
CHUANG TZU

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
CHUANG-TZU

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...
CHUANG-TZU

Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
CHUANG-TZU

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.
CHUANG-TZU

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
CHUANG TZU

There is nothing under the canopy of heaven greater than the tip of a bird's down in autumn, while t...
CHUANG TZU

The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grapsed, the words are forgotten. Where ...
CHUANG TZU

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.Chuang-Tse
CHUANG TZU

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse
CHUANG TZU

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
CHUANG TZU

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...
CHUANG TZU

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are...
CHUANG TZU

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and tho...
CHUANG TZU

Those who realize their folly are not true fools
CHUANG TZU

Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
CHUANG TZU

It receives but does not keep.
CHUANG TZU

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting ch...
CHUANG TZU

I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-...
WAYNE DYER

I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters.
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

Without the burdens and problems associated with fame and fortune, Lieh-tzu could live leisurely and...
EVA WONG

Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed ...
LIEZI

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite...
UNKNOWN

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do...
LAO TZU

I was once nestled in a cocoon but baby now i feel free as a butterfly
KRISTINA ARPAJIAN

He could be a butterfly dreaming he's a man."
"Well, he's not. He's a big fat man dreaming he's...
DEREK LANDY

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
CONFUCIUS

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify an...
, 48. LAO-TZU

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. -Lao Tzu.
LAO TZU

Never fight all the idiots at once, because even a lion has to run away when he encounters a group o...
DR HITESH C SHETH

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
SUN TZU

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
SUN TZU

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other...
ORSON SCOTT CARD

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
ORSON SCOTT CARD

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
SUN TZU

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling...
LAO TZU

I dreamt I was a purple butterfly floating in the summer breeze. Then I woke up in a field of tall g...
ANDREA HELTSLEY

When you are always ready to embrace the last option-death; then all other options chase you, thus s...
DR HITESH C SHETH

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; ...
JAMES MATTIS

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao
LAO TZU

Be where your enemy is not.
SUN TZU

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
PROVERB

It's like Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist, said years ago. Only if you know your enemy can you win t...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'

A single see...
JENNIFER SODINI

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC

The goal is, to conquer an enemy without fighting, win a debate without arguing, solve a problem wit...
DR HITESH C SHETH

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before other...
LAO TZU

I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn&...
SARAH HAY

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never ...
CRYSTAL WOODS

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I c...
EMME ROLLINS

Forgetting... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself... For a caterpillar to bec...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT

I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly colle...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that eve...
JOHN LE CARRE

I love people. I was born loving people.
BETSY PALMER

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING

I don't know if he surprised me. I made a butterfly. I went down. He shot top shelf, my glove wasn't...
DOMINIK HASEK

I went to make a butterfly and went down. He shot it top shelf, and my glove wasn't there. It was a ...
DOMINIK HASEK

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE

I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA

I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER

I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ

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