Cattle die, kinsmen die, and you yourself must die; but the fair fame of an honorable life never dies.

It is in the shelter of each other that the people truly live.

A quiet mouth is a sweet mouth; the tongue does not wound when the mind is at peace.

You cannot plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

A wise wanderer keeps watchful eyes and silent ears wherever his footsteps take him.

The tide will turn, however long and bleak the ebb may seem.

Give a warm hearth and dry clothes to the weary traveler; winter is cold for everyone.

No tree grows sturdy and resilient without fierce winds to test its grain.

Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.

The wolf that stays curled in its warm lair never tastes meat.

Speak well of the dead, but walk with vigilant care among the living.

An empty barrel makes the loudest noise when rolled down the hill.

Do not praise the day until the evening has settled; do not praise a sword until it has been tested in battle.

Two travelers shorten the longest and roughest road.

A small spark left unheeded in the dry moss can burn down a great hall.

Where there is fierce courage in the breast, a pathway through the deepest snow will always be carved.

He who sits forever by the warm hearth hears no wolves, but he sees no new horizons.

The hearth fire warms the mortal body, but true friendship warms the soul.

Better an open and declared adversary than a treacherous and smiling friend.

The eagle does not stoop to hunt common flies.

Time and the ocean tide wait for no mortal king.

Grief softens the hardened heart, but courage binds the broken bones.

You will never behold the glory of the rainbow if you are constantly looking down at your boots.

Listen to the quiet whisper of the ancient pines; they have watched empires rise and turn to dust.

A good name and an unblemished character are a golden shield that never rusts.

Do not judge the courage of a captain while the ship is tied securely to the wooden pier.

The stone that rolls down the cliff cannot be recalled by shouting from the summit.

A day of bitter sorrow feels like a century, but a day of shared love passes like a heartbeat.

The axe must strike the timber where the grain allows, not where stubborn fury commands.

Never mock the gray-headed elder; the greatest wisdom rests within weathered and scarred skin.

A brave person carries their sanctuary and home wherever their two feet stand.

Do not pour fresh mead into a vessel that already leaks at the seams.

The road to a true friend's house is never long, though the trail be steep and snowbound.

Better to stand bravely and fall in the light of day than to live a hundred winters groveling in the shadows.

Laughter is the sweetest harp music that can ever echo across the hearth of an honest home.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.