CHINESE WISDOM AND NEW YEAR OF THE GOAT – project “52”

19 February 2015

We greeted yesterday the Chinese New Year.  Happy Chinese New Year my dear friends that celebrate!  I wish you and all those you love best of luck, good health and fortune for the forthcoming year of the Goat!
I would love to share few of my favourite Chinese proverbs that often I draw wisdom from for my own strength and enlightenment:



Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
When luck visits you, everyone will know where you live.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.  If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.  If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.  If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Kindness is the best quality of the soul.
Frugality is the mother of prosperity.
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.  The second best time is now.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Health and prosperity,
Sophia

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4 comments:

  1. So very wise Sophia. I could eat a dumpling right now!

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    1. You know Jane what's funny - my older daughter thinks that Jackie Chan has said these wise words :) ...
      I can't resist prawn dumplings!

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  2. Beautiful and wise words.

    Lovely dumplings.

    Cheers,

    Rosa

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    1. Thank you Rosa,
      Chinese (and Jackie Chan) are experts at saying wise things and cooking magnificently.
      I can only write odes to that...
      hugs, S.xo

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