Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 256

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you are ugly, learn how to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Things that are stolen will really never make you rich.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You learn a lot about a man by his behavior when hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Beat your wife regularly; if you don't know why, she will.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You have to look after wealth, but knowledge looks after you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When you run alone, you run fast. When you run together, you run far.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but never your wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When you play the flute in Zanzibar all Africa dances.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about contentment

Unless you know the road you've come down, you can not know where you are going.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about contentment

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment