Zhuangzi

"A path is made by walking on it."

"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."

"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."

"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."

"Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!"