Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations,… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
People are considered pure of heart when they do not approach power and pomp; but those who can be near without being affected are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Do not think about whatever service you may have done for others; think about what you may have done to offend them. Don't forget… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
