“Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.”

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

All things are complete within ourselves.

Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

Never lose your child’s heart.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

My whole life has been a hallow waste, a futile exercise, for no one at death can take anything with them!

I’ve learned to not beat myself up about needing relaxation. To not stress about exercise and doing stuff. It’s important to counterbalance yourself.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

The only rest is moving from one exercise to the next.

Our trainer doesn’t count biceps and tricep as an exercise, maybe he knows anyways we will do it.