Zhuangzi Quotes

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

I am someone without an ego.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

Work at being a humble person.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Egolessness is contentment.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."