Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

To understand your parents, love you must raise children yourself.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men.

The superior doctor prevents sickness ; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.