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Selected Quotes

Easily translated Chinese Proverbs for Everyday Use.

 

  • What goes around, comes around.                                                                  善有善报,恶有恶报. (Shan You Shan Bao, E you E Bao)

  • A friend in need is a friend indeed                                                                   患难见真情. (Huan Nan Jian Zhen Qing)

  • Nothing ventured, nothing gained                                                                   不入虎穴,焉得虎子. (Bu Ru Hu Xue, Yan De Hu Zi)

 

  • Practice makes perfect                                                                                     熟能生巧. (Shu Neng Sheng Qiao)

 

  • The first step is the hardest                                                                             万事起头难. (Wan Shi Qi Tou Nan)

Quotes about Love for your Valentines.

 

  • I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

    - Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

  • You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
    - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, 
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
    - Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  -  Dr. Seuss

Quotes about Peace

 

  • Peace begins with a smile - Mother Theresa

  • Nobody can bring peace but yourself - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful - Friedrich Schiller

Witty Quotes for the Night Out

 

  • The superfluous, a very necessary thing - Voltaire 

  • Witty sayings mean nothing - Voltaire

  • Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted - John Lennon

  • Recession is when you neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. - Ronald Reagan

  • Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.                          - Bernard M. Baruch

  • Be yourself, everyone else is taken. - Oscar Wilde

 

  • Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure, and may the stopping never start. - Jason Mraz​

  • In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost

Inspirational Quotes

 

  • It is during the darkest moments that we must focus on the light    - Aristotle

 

  • Try to be like the turtle, at ease in it's own shell - David Copeland

 

  • Your present circumstances don't determine where you go; they determine where you start - Nido Quein

 

  • Change your thoughts and it will change your world                         - Norman Vincent Peale

 

  • We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone                 - Ronald Reagan

 

  • Believe you can and you are halfway there - Theodore Roosevelt

 

  • What we achieve inwardly will change outward reality                      - Plutarch

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