Wisdom for the New Year

Happy Lunar New Year!!!

It is now the year of the Rat. I hope you have a year of health and prosperity.

To help you have a great year, I found some Chinese proverbs from Wise Old Sayings. Add these to your collection and be like the Rat, a clever and quick thinker.

Chinese Sayings for Lunar Year 4717

  • If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
  • Adapt the remedy to the disease.
  • One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
  • Control your emotions or they will control you.
  • It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
  • He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
  • A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
  • Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.
  • Every smile makes you a day younger.
  • Continually give, continually gain.