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Why Not Another 21 Good Sentences

If none of the ‘21 Good Sentences’ from the previous two chapters are suitable to you, take a look at the following 21 sentences. Don’t worry!  At least one should be helpful:
   
1. Buddha once advised: one must first sow seeds to reap the harvest, one must first be charitable to acquire wealth, and one must first initiate the bodhicitta to have good health!
2. Knowledge brings health, as ignorance leads to death.
3. I have a seed called ‘Blessing’.
After being scorched by the sun and drenched by the rain, windswept and rain-battered, ...,
it has grown!
It brings to everyone good health, good fortune, cheer, lightheartedness, safety, beauty, sweetness, happiness, rejoice, worry-free, satisfaction and abundance.
4. More people learn to dance than learn about Buddhism, more people go to mah-jong places than go to the library. The state of soul among modern people is a kind of sorrow, please do not continue like this.
5. All victories compared to the victory of conquering oneself are insignificant.
All failures compared to the failure of losing oneself are even more insignificant.
6. Every misfortune is the seed of good fortune of the future.
7. You must always remember: Every day is the most beautiful day of the year.
8. Face the past with the least remorse, face the present with the least waste.
9. The first youth is a gift from heaven, the second youth is from one’s own diligence.
10. The power of love can be so great that it can make you forget everything, yet it can also be so small that it cannot accommodate even a speck of jealousy.
11. At times of disappointment, do not dwell on sorrow, instead think of those days filled with laughter!
12. Tomorrow is a piece of land with the fastest growth rate in the world, as it is filled with hope.
13. It is impossible to conquer those countless flashing changes in the outer realm, but for the changes of our internal emotions, aren’t we bound to control these better?
14. As we expect less from others, then the concern we have for others will become more natural...
15. Whether or not a person is good, depends upon his behaviour:
Education does not represent much, having a clean mind is more important;
Each and every sentence from a person with a clean mind is pure and priceless.
16. A smile is considered the flame of truth, and smiling more easily brings us closer to the truth;
From today onwards, let us hand over all past and present suffering to impermanence,
Let this suffering disappears within impermanence.
17. Many friends come and go in your life, but only real friends are able to leave footprints in your mind.
18. Broad-minded people discuss ideals;
Most people criticise matters;
Narrow-minded people gossip about others.
19. Anger and danger are different by only one letter.
20. To control oneself, use your head;
To command others, use your heart.
21. Beauty in young people is a natural creation,
Beauty in old people is a work of art.

 

 

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