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

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

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

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

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

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.