To resist him that is set in authority is evil
If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich
Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned, The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots. What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher? As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.
I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top. But no one knows where the top is.
Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.
Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.
There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.