The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on.
One man's thorn is another man's rose.
Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies.
Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.
A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.
Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.
Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.
Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.
If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.
Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.
A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.
If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight.
If you serve two masters, either of them may punish you for serving the other.
If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.
A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.
Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.
In the lowest Hell you find ignorance.In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.