Zhuangzi

"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

"To find your purpose, stop searching for your purpose."

"The only true failure is the refusal to grow."

"Life is not a problem to be solved; it is a mystery to be lived."

"The wise man does not accumulate; he circulates."

"What you resist, persists; what you accept, transforms."

"True strength is gentleness applied with conviction."

"The river does not worry about reaching the ocean."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement; the sage has no name."

"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"Do you have the patience to wait till the mud settles and the water is clear?"

"Great knowledge is universal; small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are tiresome."

"If you realize that all things are of one body, you may begin to love them."

"The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness."

"Embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness. Curb desires."

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

"The sage wears coarse clothes but carries jade in his heart."

"Once you realize that the road is endless, it becomes a spiritual practice rather than a destination."

"Happy is the man who believes in himself before believing in fortune."

"The great man is hard to know, but easy to serve; the small man is easy to know, but hard to serve."

"When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten."

"Free yourself from the concepts of right and wrong; then you will know peace."

"The wise man doesn't resist the world; he flows with it."

"What is rooted is easy to nourish; what has not yet sprouted is easy to prevent."

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

"Forget the distinctions between good and evil; accept the world as it is and you will become whole."

"The breakthrough comes when you stop fighting against resistance and dance with it instead."

"Sit and forget everything."

"When the student is ready, the teacher will find them without words."