A clever mind is not as good as a clear-headed one.
A person can only rely on their own ability to find opportunities; you cannot wait for opportunities to find you.
True friendship requires a certain distance. With distance comes respect; with respect, friendship lasts forever. [Singapore Poet] Yu Jin
If love makes one anxious, then respect is something to believe in; an honest person will not merely love without respect, because we love a person because we respect their qualities.
A person should have three minds: one born with them, one from books, and one from life. [Russian Writer] Chekhov
As long as you feel it is right, do it—you will be criticized whether you do it or not. No one kicks a dead dog. To make others like you, first change your attitude toward people: be relaxed, natural, and keep a smile on your face; this way, others will naturally feel fond of you. — Carnegie
The worst emperor may wish for absolute autocratic power, but even the best emperor would not wish his subjects to live with too much freedom. — Tacitus
Meeting a wise, powerful, and upright book is of great significance to youth. For meeting a new person can often decide your future path and your entire career. [Soviet] I. Kosmogemianskaya, "Zoya and Shura's Story"
Cultivate success from failure. Obstacles and failures are the two most reliable stepping stones to success. If you are willing to study and utilize them, nothing can be more beneficial to a person. Look back—can you not see how failure has helped you? — [American] Dale Carnegie
In almost everyone's fate, the language of books has played an incomparable role; anyone who has never been captivated by a good book will experience the greatest regret. [Soviet] Lyudmila Kosmogemianskaya, "Zoya and Shura's Story"
My life has been as regular as the mechanism of a clock; when my life ends, I will come to a standstill. — From "The Life and Letters of Darwin"
Regardless of status or position, people possess the ability to appreciate beauty and the capacity to express innate talent. Evil is often hindered and eventually destroys itself along with its practitioner. Goodness, however, is different. If human kindness could trace its roots, even death would seem beautiful; for much of the world's compassion, kindness, and purity grows from the grave! — Dickens
Revitalize China and create a golden age in Chinese history! This is a rare historical opportunity for today's youth, a hard-won great happiness.
You reap what you sow in life.
Fatalism is an excuse for those with weak willpower. — Disraeli
Fullness is what we call beauty. — Mencius
I have only now realized that no matter who you are with, as long as you are alive, living happily is what matters.
Morality must be universal, something everyone should do and everyone can perform.
I create, therefore I exist. — [French] Romain Rolland
Life is short, and everyone has only one life; it will not come again. — Anonymous
People often fail just as they are about to succeed.
Progress is today's activity and tomorrow's guarantee. — Emerson
Health is the most equitable and precious gift that nature can provide us. — Montaigne
We are not waiting for the future; we are creating the future. — [French] Bernanos
We must live, we must seek knowledge, and we must become human.
Only in the dictionary does success come before work. — Brisbane
Science is a traveler of the world—but no harvest can be reaped where nothing is sown.
When you feel your life is full, look back and realize that today's sun seems different from yesterday's.
The pyramids were built stone by stone. Human knowledge is accumulated bit by bit.
As he grows older, time will teach him to understand all things. — Aeschylus
A little more caution will certainly result in a little less regret.
If your only tool is a hammer, you might think every problem is a nail.
Reversal is the movement of the Tao; weakness is the utility of the Tao. All things in the world are born from Being; Being is born from Non-being.
In the future, people will not just focus on strength and power, but more on wisdom, kindness, and responsibility.
To have fewer shops but better quality: it is not the quantity of shops that matters, but their excellence. — Jack Ma
Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is perilous.
As long as you walk towards the direction of the rising sun, you will still see the dawn even when waking from a nightmare.
Overcome others' jealousy with grace: sometimes, the best knowledge is to be completely unaware or to pretend to be. Since we must coexist with others, and most people do not want you to be better than them. Many times, you truly should: rather be drunk with others than sober alone.
Rather than blocking someone's wealth, create your own; in a sense, blocking someone's livelihood is like cutting off their survival.
Since you cannot control the outcome, perfect the process.
A woman's wardrobe will always be missing one dress. This is not about vanity, but about keeping up with the trends of the era.
A life of hardship is like a whetstone; more hardship brings more endurance, and more suffering brings more perseverance.
The ultimate goal of all human effort is to achieve happiness.
If she were still in this world, she would probably be nearly seventy. And now, I am old. There are likely not many left in the world who remember her. Once I no longer remember her, there will be no one left.
In life, everything between success and failure lies in what we choose to keep or let go. Let go to protect; let go of small interests to gain friends; let go of greed to find happiness; let go of petty gains to find true wealth. Having the courage to lose is how we gain. To have is to give.
The lamp is lit by oneself; the road is walked by oneself.
Are you giving him your entire future? Is that love, or is it laziness? — Cai Kangyong
The most precious thing my father gave me was his worldview and outlook on life: freedom, equality, consistency, focus, and humor. My father always told my two siblings and me to find our interests, ideally ones that could support ourselves. My father was surely a heroic figure, for everything he did was not driven by money, but by passion, which in turn brought him wealth. — Peter Buffett
A large heart makes everything small; a small heart makes everything large. A high heart makes everything low; a low heart makes everything high. A narrow heart makes everything narrow; a wide heart makes everything wide. A heart with everything has everything; an empty heart has nothing. A heart that perceives perceives all; a heart that is lost is lost. A peaceful heart is at peace; a chaotic heart is in chaos; a beautiful heart is beautiful; an ugly heart is ugly; a strong heart is strong; a weak heart is weak; a moving heart moves; a calm heart is calm; a healthy heart is healthy; a sick heart is sick!
An opponent is a mirror that reflects your shortcomings.
Embrace the spirit of the ox and do ordinary work.
Life's regrets are but a memory over tea after a meal.
Life is like a game of chess; one mistake can lose the whole game. This is sad; but life is even more like chess, for you cannot play a new round and you cannot undo a move. — Freud
Yellow chickens and purple crabs are worth enjoying with wine; red trees and green mountains are perfect for boating. — Wu Weiye
But happiness is too simple, so it is easily broken. — An Ni Bei Bei
You must work both diligently and excellently, because many people work diligently but fail to achieve results.
The strong do not need to tell others about the hardships they have endured; they can simply smile when they hear others talking about their own hardships.
Like two hedgehogs huddling for warmth: too close and they prick each other; too far and they lose each other's warmth.
There is never a true dead end in life. No matter how much hardship or suffering one faces, as long as one holds a seed of belief in their heart, one day they will emerge from the darkness and bloom again.
I have survived many calamities through extreme caution. If you want to live in peace, you must be careful in all things.
Forgiving others once more is like creating more blessings; expand your capacity, and your blessings will grow.
Bees busy collecting honey have no time to make grand speeches.
How variable is talent? Praise brings it like spring rain to sprouting seedlings; criticism withers it like a severe frost.
Successful people look for methods; unsuccessful people look for successful people.
When the stars have settled, departing quietly and ceasing contact is the most correct way to handle rewards and punishments.
Heroes find it hard to pass the gate of beauty, and beauty finds it hard to pass the gate of money; there will always be obstacles.
There is no desperate environment, only a desperate state of mind.
If you feel uncomfortable with anything around you, it is your perception that causes it, not the thing itself. By adjusting your perception, you can uplift yourself at any moment.
Never pin your hopes on others.
The most important thing about music is that it brings joy and adds surprises to a plain life.
Is life not meant to turn the transient into the eternal? To achieve this, one must understand how to cherish both the fleeting and the permanent.
On the road of life, when your hopes fail one by one, you must remain firm and composed. My hope is that my existence makes this world a little better.
Those who have tried their best are always the most beautiful; even if they do not win in the end, at least they have not lied to themselves.
Naive trust and excessive greed are both fatal flaws.
The roads of time lead everywhere, to the momentary and to the eternal.
