Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 29

Hope can get you through anything.
Jamie Ford
I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
Lu Xun
Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.
Marie Lu
He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
Jamie Ford
Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.
Sherry Thomas
To the beginning of the rest of our lives.- Leo
Sherry Thomas
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
Sherry Thomas
Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.
Sherry Thomas
Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo
Sherry Thomas
Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.
Sherry Thomas
You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.
Mao Dun
You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
Vann Chow
I’m not good enough for Duke.” “I’m good enough for you.
Feng Nong
She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
Vann Chow
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
Lin Yutang
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
Zhuangzi
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
Shan Sa
Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is not simply having their material needs met. Thus, society has set up a system of rewards that go beyond material goods. These include titles, social recognition, status, and political power, all wrapped up in a package called self-fulfillment. Attracted by these prizes and goaded on by social pressure, people spend their short lives tiring body and mind to chase after these goals. Perhaps this gives them the feeling that they have achieved something in their lives, but in reality they have sacrificed a lot in life. They can no longer see, hear, act, feel, or think from their hearts. Everything they do is dictated by whether it can get them social gains. In the end, they've spent their lives following other people's demands and never lived a life of their own. How different is this from the life of a slave or a prisoner?
Liezi
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Chaos is another name for opportunity
I-Ching
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion.
Lao Tzu
The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
Sengcan
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Sengcan
The heart that gives, gathers.
Lao Tzu
Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I’ve exhausted every possibility.
Confucius
Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.
Confucius
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
Confucius
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.
Sengcan
For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.
Sengcan
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?
Sengcan
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sun Tzu
Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.
Confucius
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Sengcan
One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?
Confucius
I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.
Confucius
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in the worst confusion will end his life without ever getting straightened out; the biggest fool will end his life without ever seeing the light. If three men are traveling along and one is confused, they will still get where they are going - because confusion is in the minority. But if two of them are confused, then they can walk until they are exhausted and never get anywhere - because confusion is in the majority.
Zhuangzi
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
Confucius
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
Sengcan
Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.
Wu Cheng'en
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
Hsin Hsin Ming
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)
Confucius
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
Zhuangzi
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao Tzu
he who will not economize will have to agonize
Confucius
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)
Confucius
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Lao Tzu
A path is made by walking on it.
Zhuangzi
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Zhuangzi
Time flows away like the water in the river.
Confucius
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.
Lao Tzu
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
Confucius
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
Confucius
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius