Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.