Inspiration Quote by Chuang Tzu — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A path is made by walking on it.”

“When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.”

“Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there? What does the Way rely upon, that we have true and false? What do words rely upon, that we have right and wrong? How can the Way go away and not exist? How can words exist and not be acceptable? When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words reply on vain show, then we have rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best to use is clarity.”

“Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.”

“Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

“You must train your intuition, you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

“Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.”