The journey ahead

When students graduate, we wish them well and try to impart some good advice for theirle,  further journeys in life. These Chinese proverbs can guide them as they embark on new adventures:

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

A man of worth is great without pride; a mean man is proud without being great.

Good fortune

Good fortune is a benefit for the wise, but a curse for the foolish.

A vacant mind is open to suggestions.

By nature, all men are alike—but, they’re set apart by education.

A wise man adapts to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtues of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to our health.

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man listens to public opinion.

If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t dispense advice.