Zhuangzi Quotes

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

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

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

To be calm when you've found something going on