Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never dr...
For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some magical reason we always look the same to each other. Even our friends never seem to grow old. What a boon that is, and never suspected b...
He who is in harmony with the Tao is like a newborn child. Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak, but its grip is powerful. It doesn't know about the union of male and female, yet its penis can stand erect, so intense is its vital power. It can sc...
Never give advice in a crowd.
Never find fault with the absent.
The best morsels are never given to a beggar.
The hollow of the ear is never full.
The house of the heart is never full.
A dry bone is never licked.
Courtesy never offended anybody.
Women never praise without gossiping.
The watched chicken never lays.
Lies never pay the toll.
Better late than never.
Alms never make poor.
Bad merchandise is never cheap.
Rent and taxes never sleep.
A physician's neighbor is never a doctor.
A cemetery never refuses a corpse.
Never give a child a sword.
