Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.