Zhuangzi Quotes

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

On all the peaks lies peace.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

Movement is tranquility.

I feel very peaceful.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.