1. Our needs are few; our wants many. 2. What is most important is to be grateful for what you’ve been given and repay in kind — to benefit others is to benefit ourselves. 3. Do your utmost – no matter who gains or loses. 4. Compassion has no enemies; wisdom, no vexations. 5. The busiest have the most time; the diligent, the best health. 6. The charitable are blessed; the virtuous, happy. 7. Let the measure of your heart be great; the size of your ego, small. 8. When you can let it go, then you can pick it up. At ease letting it go or picking it up – then you are truly free. 9. Know yourself, know others; know when to advance, when to retreat; at all times maintain peace and equanimity in body and mind; know your blessings, use them wisely, strive to increase them; everywhere you go develop deep virtuous affinity with others. 10. Able to pick it up, able to let it go – year after year good fortune will surely follow; sow a field of blessings with wisdom! Everyday, all days – are good days. 11. Always keep your body and mind always relaxed and meet everyone with a smile; relaxation makes your mind and body healthy, and a smile gathers friends and friendship. 12. About to speak? Think a moment. Slow your speech a bit. It’s not that you should not speak, but rather that you should cherish what you say and choose your words with care. 13. In daily living it is better to think: “fine if I can have it, no matter if I can’t”; thus transform suffering to joy and live a life of serenity. 14. The four contentments: mind at peace, body at rest, family in harmony, all enterprise at ease. 15. When you wish for something – as yourself these four questions: Is it needed? Is it wanted? Is it obtainable? It is advisable? 16. The four attitudes to take towards others: grateful, thankful, transforming, inspiring. 17. The four steps in dealing with any problem: face it, accept it, deal with it, let it go. 18. The four keys to good fortune: know what you are blessed with, cherish it, help it grow, and plant seeds for future blessings. 19. If possible and permissible, seek after it; if impossible and forbidden, keep away from it. 20. With gratitude we grow; repayment of kindness leads to success. 21. Be thankful at every opportunity: good and bad fortune are both allies. 22. Rejoice when you encounter good, praise it, encourage it to spread, but take care to learn with an open mind. 23. More praise and less criticism! Cut down the karma that comes from what you say. 24. An ordinary mind is a mind of utmost freedom, utmost joy. 25. A true step on the path merits more than a hundred shallow words adorned with tinsel. 26. The more you come to know your weaknesses, the faster you will grow – your self confidence unwavering. 27. Look more, listen more; speak less, act fast; spend slow. 28. Only after you encounter affliction and adversity will you summon the mind of diligence. 29. Be solid and forthright; have a great open heart; be sure and steady in accomplishment, with vision penetrating and far-reaching. 30. Busy but not in disarray; tired but not worn out. 31. Be happy being busy! Even when you’re tired, be joyful. 32. Busy? No matter. No vexation. All is well. 33. Work quickly, not anxiously; mind and body relaxed and unbound. 34. Finish your work quickly, but in an orderly manner; don’t become nervous trying to compete with time itself. 35. Don’t measure success and failure by wealth or poverty; work only to benefit yourself and others with all your heart and strength. 36. Those who work hard must endure complaints; those who take charge must face criticism. Under complaints lies compassion; within criticism hides wisdom. 37. Be at peace with circumstances, contribute according to conditions. 38. The three steps to success are: following conditions, seizing opportunities, and creating opportunities. 39. Seize opportunities when they arise, create them when they don't exist, and don't force them when they're not ripe. 40. Life's ups and downs are all experiences for growth. 41. Handle matters with wisdom, care for people with compassion. 42. When you are off balance, always right yourself with wisdom, everywhere you go, use compassion to make life easy for others. 43. Deep wisdom, great compassion: few vexations. 44. When facing whatever is in front of you, act with wisdom, treat people with compassion; forget benefit, harm, gain, and loss, and vexations will diminish. 45. An ordinary mind bends to circumstances; a sage mind transforms circumstances. 46. Big ducks make big paths, small ducks make small paths, no swimming makes no path. 47. Can’t move the mountain? Build a road! Road blocked? Start climbing! Can’t climb? Shift your mindset! 48. 'Diligence' doesn't mean overdoing it, but persevering steadily. 49. Like a boat leaving no trace in water, or a bird leaving no shadow in flight, when success or failure no longer causes ripples in your mind, that is the great wisdom of true liberation. 50. Accommodating others is accommodating yourself. 51. Willingly accepting an open loss is wise; suffering a hidden loss from insult is foolish. 52. Pressure usually comes from caring too much about external matters and others' judgments. 53. When serving others with gratitude and a heart of repaying kindness, you won't feel tired or exhausted. 54. Maintain gratitude at all times and places, and contribute with your wealth, physical strength, wisdom, and mental energy. 55. The meaning of life is to serve, the value of living is to contribute. 56. Life's purpose is to receive karma, fulfill vows, and make new vows. 57. A person's value lies not in the length of life, but in the magnitude of contribution. 58. The past is illusory, the future is a dream, focusing on the present is most important. 59. Don't dwell on the past, don't worry about the future, be grounded in the present, and you'll be one with past and future. 60. Wisdom is not knowledge, experience, or reasoning, but an attitude that transcends self-centeredness. 61. A positive life with complete humility; the bigger the ego, the more anxiety. 62. Superior people find peace in the Way, average people in affairs, inferior people in fame and desires. 63. Whatever roles you have, fulfill the responsibilities of those roles. 64. In stability and harmony, embrace the brilliant today and walk into a fresh tomorrow. 65. Worry is unnecessary torment; mindfulness is safe motivation. 66. Wealth is like flowing water, giving is like digging a well. The deeper the well, the more water; the more you give, the greater the wealth. 67. Face life with 'the best preparation and the worst expectation.' 68. As long as you're still breathing, there is infinite hope - that is the greatest wealth. 69. Those who save others from suffering are bodhisattvas; those who endure suffering are great bodhisattvas. 70. Three principles for transcending birth, aging, illness, and suffering: live happily, be healthy in sickness, age with hope. 71. Three principles for transcending death: don't seek death, don't fear death, don't wait for death. 72. Death is neither a joyous event nor a sad one, but a solemn Buddhist ceremony. 73. Every child is a little bodhisattva helping parents grow. 74. For young people: show care without worry, guide without control, use discussion not authority. 75. For your children, offer blessings rather than worries! 76. Marriage is about ethics, not arguments. 77. Not littering and picking up trash are both meritorious deeds. 78. Your perspective is your wisdom; your fortune is your merit. 79. Wanting to possess what we like and reject what we dislike leads to anxiety about gain and loss, bringing vexations. 80. Those who regularly practice contentment with little are truly wealthy without fear of lack. 81. A troubled mind is true suffering; physical illness isn't necessarily suffering. 82. Knowing that mental unrest is suffering, quickly find peace by reciting 'Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva!' 83. What you have now is the best. Having more without satisfaction is poverty. 84. Don't suppress emotions to control them; better to use visualization, Buddha's name, or prayer to transform them. 85. Let everyone speak good words, do good deeds, and turn good fortune. 86. Everyone speaks good words, does good deeds, turns good fortune. 87. If everyone says one more kind word and does one more good deed daily, all small goodness will become great goodness. 88. What needs to be done urgently and what people should do, I'll do it! 89. When I am harmonious with others, mind and speech are harmonious, there is joy and happiness. 90. Inner and outer harmony, cause and condition harmony, bring true peace and freedom. 91. Seeking inner peace brings safety, caring for others brings happiness. 92. Character equals wealth, contribution equals savings. 93. Contribution is practice, peace of mind is achievement. 94. Having much doesn't necessarily bring satisfaction; having little doesn't necessarily mean poverty. 95. What we receive now is from what we did in the past; what we'll receive in the future is from what we do now. 96. Good people are never lonely, kind people are happiest; always helping others helps yourself, you'll be most blessed at all times and places. 97. To maintain good relationships, keep your mind open, accept and accommodate more people. 98. When you change your mindset, the environment changes too; there are no absolute goods or bads in the world. 99. In human relationships, communicate; if communication fails, compromise; if compromise fails, forgive and tolerate. 100. The greater should accommodate the lesser, the lesser should understand the greater. 101. Devote your whole heart to family, and your entire life to career. 102. The best way to overcome greed is to give more, contribute more, and share more with others. 103. When you accommodate others, both parties' problems are solved. 104. Buddhist practitioners have two main tasks: to purify the land and to help beings mature spiritually. 105. Be like a bottomless trash can, learn to be like a dustless mirror. 106. When vexations return to the mind, there is wisdom; when benefits are shared with others, there is compassion. 107. Look at yourself with humility, look at the world with gratitude. 108. Purify human hearts through contentment with little, purify society through caring for others.