A moment of patience can prevent a great disaster and a moment of impatience can ruin a whole life. (Chinese Proverb)
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it./ Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it. (Chinese Proverb)
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. (Chinese Proverb)
Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan. (Chinese Proverb)
It is better to save your innocence at the expense of your honor than your country at the expense of your life. (Chinese Proverb)
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. (Chinese Proverb)