Keep your mouth shut in a crowd and guard your heart when alone.
The greatest mistake in life is sacrificing health for material possessions; the greatest tragedy is wasting life over the troubles of others; and the greatest waste is using your life to solve the problems you created yourself.
You don't need to agonize over how to please others; if you always believe in yourself, you will find that many people will eventually come to please you.
Life passes in the blink of an eye. Sleep tonight, and tomorrow is another day; if you never wake up, it is a lifetime.
Live happily and peacefully by not being overly demanding when eating and not being overly calculating when sleeping.
On the journey of life, one must cross vast, arid, barren, and treacherous wildernesses before stepping into the real world.
Truly wise people never treat others as fools. Those who treat others as fools often find, in the end, that they themselves are the real fools.
Desire is never the source of happiness, but the root of all suffering. Once one desire is satisfied, new ones inevitably arise—just as satisfying the desire for cold water leads to the desire to sleep in—continuing endlessly in a cycle.