Ming-Dao Deng

• A good master leads you to the true master within. Only that master, who is your own higher self, can adequately answer all questions.
• A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.
• Adversity is the tempering of one's mettle. Without it, we cannot know any true meaning in our accomplishments.
• Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.
• Each day your life grows a day shorter. Make every move count.
• Every day passes whether you participate or not.
• Help others for all the times that you have been ignored. Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned.
• If we know how to adapt, we end up being superior.
• If you practiced for the day, then you have won. If you were lazy for the day, then you have lost.
• In nature there is no alienation. Everything belongs.
• It is only depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life.
• It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.
• It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.
• Life is a constant series of opportunities.
• Life is but one dream flowing into another.
• Make your stand today. On this spot. On this day.
• Receive without complaint, Work with fate.
• The mind that turns ever outward Will have no end to craving. Only the mind turned inward Will find a still-point of peace.
• The path is difficult to ensure worthiness. The lazy look elsewhere, The persevering find riches.
• The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow.
• The wise accomplish all that they want without arousing the envy or scorn of others.
• Things cannot forever go downward. There are limits to everything—even the cold, and the darkness, and the wind, and the dying.
• Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.
• Turn your face to the sun, as flowers know how to do.
• We can either add to our character each day, or we can fritter away our energies in distractions.
• We create the world and ourselves;
• Who you are is always right.