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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”