Character is destiny. –...

    行到水穷处， 坐看云起时。 – 王维 《终南别业》 When walking, arriving at where the water ends, sit and watch the clouds arise. – Wáng Wéi (Zhōngnán’s...

    Well-being is realised by small steps, but is truly no small thing. – Zeno of...

    If I step onto my misfortune, I stand higher. – Friedrich...

    Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor...

    Live as if you were living for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! – Immanuel...

    Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich...

    Life is not something. It is the opportunity for something! – Christian Friedrich...

    It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. –...

    (From Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury) If your path is right on, it is only right to walk on. –...

    (From Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury) Branch far and wide from long and deep roots. –...

    It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks they already know. –...

    Take these two words to heart… PERSIST (in endurance) and RESIST (with self-restraint). –...

    He is blessed who dies not late but well. – Musonius...

    One who by living is of use to many has not the right to choose to die unless by dying he may be of use to more. – Musonius...

    Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. –...

    Waste no more time talking about what a good man is like. Be one. – Marcus...

    Better Your Precepts To Better Your Life How do you possibly better this human life if you do not better yourself by observing the Five Precepts (of abstaining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and intoxicants) well, that made this human life possible? –...

    Be Better To Fare Better How do you better your life if you do not wish to be a better person, by better avoiding evil, better doing good, and better purifying yourself? –...

    Evil: Super Short Story #754 His proof for the ‘evil’ not really being evil is simple –  If even the ‘evil’ prefer to pick to sacrifice the evil over the good, as they are more wary of the evil, how can these pickers really be...

    Rationality: Super Short Story #753 His superrationality clashed with her super irrationality in a super irrational way. Since he is supposed to be very rational, he should not have expected her to be so...

    Hope: Super Short Story #752 She thought hoping for perfection in him was perfectly reasonable, though it was perfectly unreasonable, especially when she was imperfect to him too. It would be much more reasonable for her to seek perfection within...

    Crime: Super Short Story #751 To be fair, that he was once a criminal,  does not mean he will be a criminal again. Also to be fair, that she was not a criminal,  does not mean she will not be a criminal...

    Competence: Super Short Story #750 He is so cocky that he thinks he is so competent, when he is only as incompetent as he is...

  Hanger: Super Short Story #749 With too many small hangers hanging around all over the place, he realised that he needed a big hanger to hang the hangers in one...

    Competence: Super Short Story #748 Better to think oneself is not fully competent, so as to be more competent, than to be too incompetent to think one might be...

    Memories: Super Short Story #747 Her memories of life experiences were mixed with movie experiences. making her ‘documentaries’ ‘fictitious’, and her ‘movies’...

    Curiosity: Super Short Story #746 He was not brave, just very curious. He was not arrogant, just very ignorant. But sometimes, all that...

    Fool: Super Short Story #745 It is always wiser to keep seeking wiser ones as you might be surrounded by fools who say you are the wisest one, and as you might believe them, making you the greatest...

    Listening: Super Short Story #744 Unfortunately, she would not listen any more to advice that she should listen to advice...