People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, …

- Zicheng Hong

In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situatio…

- Zicheng Hong

When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, insp…

- Zicheng Hong

The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or…

- Zicheng Hong

In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on ful…

- Zicheng Hong

When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character devel…

- Zicheng Hong

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put t…

- Zicheng Hong

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

- Zicheng Hong

The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing…

- Zicheng Hong