“Time flows away like the water in the river. ”

“With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things”

“Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.”

“Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”

“The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)”