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Top 15 Liezi Quotes (2025 Update)

Liezi Quote: “To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.”

1. “To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.”

Liezi Quote: “If you play a game where scrap pieces of glass are at stake, you will play skillfully. If your expensive belt buckle is at stake, you’ll start to get clumsy. If it’s your money that’s at stake, you’ll fumble. It’s not that you’ve lost your skill. It’s because you are so flustered by things happening outside that you’ve lost your calmness inside. Lose your stillness and you will fail in everything you do.”

2. “If you play a game where scrap pieces of glass are at stake, you will play skillfully. If your expensive belt buckle is at stake, you’ll start to get clumsy. If it’s your money that’s at stake, you’ll fumble. It’s not that you’ve lost your skill. It’s because you are so flustered by things happening outside that you’ve lost your calmness inside. Lose your stillness and you will fail in everything you do.”

Liezi Quote: “Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield.”

3. “Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield.”

Liezi Quote: “He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he’s won the argument not because he is correct but because you can’t outwit him.”

4. “He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he’s won the argument not because he is correct but because you can’t outwit him.”

Liezi Quote: “If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.”

5. “If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.”

Liezi Quote: “Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.”

6. “Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.”

Liezi Quote: “The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery of desire. Death, then, for everyone is a kind of homecoming. That is why the ancient sages speak of a dying person as a person who is ’going home.”

7. “The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery of desire. Death, then, for everyone is a kind of homecoming. That is why the ancient sages speak of a dying person as a person who is ’going home.”

Liezi Quote: “A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.”

8. “A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.”

Liezi Quote: “In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming are the norm in interactions with people. The approval and disapproval of others become important, and the honest and sincere expression of thoughts and feelings is lost.”

9. “In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming are the norm in interactions with people. The approval and disapproval of others become important, and the honest and sincere expression of thoughts and feelings is lost.”

Liezi Quote: “Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.”

10. “Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.”

Liezi Quote: “In infancy, our blood is strong and our energy is plentiful. Mind and body, thought and action are one. Everything we do is in harmony with the natural order. The infant is not affected by things that happen around him. Virtue and ethics cannot restrain his will. Naked and free of social conventions, he follows the natural path of the heart.”

11. “In infancy, our blood is strong and our energy is plentiful. Mind and body, thought and action are one. Everything we do is in harmony with the natural order. The infant is not affected by things that happen around him. Virtue and ethics cannot restrain his will. Naked and free of social conventions, he follows the natural path of the heart.”

Liezi Quote: “If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.”

12. “If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.”

Liezi Quote: “Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.”

13. “Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.”

Liezi Quote: “The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.”

14. “The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.”

Liezi Quote: “Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.”

15. “Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.”

Liezi Quote: “Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.”

16. “Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.”

Liezi Quote: “When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.”

17. “When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.”

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