Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any place I could not go? When it is time, I will fall asleep, and when the right time comes, I will wake up again.

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.