You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Quote by Chinese Proverbs

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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days...

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days...

He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite,...

He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite,...

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back

Use power to curb power

Use power to curb power

Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it

Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose...

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose...

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't...

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't...

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and...

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and...

Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood

Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right

He who carves the Buddha never worships him

He who carves the Buddha never worships him

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious...

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious...

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as...

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as...