An Unpolished Gem Is A Stone.

(Today I saw a Discovery Channel about Jade - "The Stone of Heaven".)

“A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.”

-Chinese Proverbs


An unpolished gem is a stone.

- Ghostwise

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“Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.”

- Author Unknown


But no one wants to steal your education.

- Ghostwise

Preserve The Old, But Know The New.

(Today is the first day of Chinese New Year. How about digesting some Chinese proverbs.)

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."

- Chinese Proverb


If you are planning for a day, have your three meals, go to sleep and hope you don't wake up.

- Ghostwise

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"Preserve the old, but know the new."

- Chinese Proverb


If you only preserve the old, you will not grow.
If you only pursue the new, you will not have roots.

- Ghostwise

Buy An Inch Of Time With An Inch Of Gold.

(I was given some 'gold' today not real one unfortunately but just as sweet. Chinese New Year is just around the corner and friends and giving "Kam" (Mandarin Orange). So today's post is about gold of a different kind).

“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold”

- Chinese Proverbs

The older you get the more value you place on time and less on gold.

- Ghostwise

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“Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.”

- Author Unknown

When you are only looking down, you cannot see the color of the sky.

- Ghostwise

Why Frogs Don't Leap Over Unicorn.

(It is almost 1 am in the morning and I'm dead tired. So forgive the improvisation. My last conversation in MyKlang forum was about frog legs, so frog legs are what you will get. ha.)

“It is a truly wise man who does not play leap frog with a unicorn”

- Author Unknown


"You wouldn't want to be the bull that jumped over the fence and landed a cow the other side."

- Ghostwise

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"How can there be a big fat frog jumping in the middle of the street?"

- Cantonese Proverb


There is no such thing as a free frog leg.

- Ghostwise

Plant A Green Tree To Wait For A Singing Bird.

(Yesterday I was in a bird sanctuary in the Khao Yai National Park in Thailand listening to the calls of wild birds. It was a cool windy morning and the tall grasses dance like rippling waves in the distance. I was up in a wooden tower surrounded by grasslands and a small lake, framed by the darker greens of the forest at the edges. I couldn't think of a better way to spend the day. This is dedicated to the birds (seen and unseen) that sang to me yesterday morning. Looked out for it in upcoming posts in Ghost Walk)



There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

- Robert Lynd


Birds enhance the landscape by its presence and its songs. Man changes the landscape to enhance no one but himself.

- Ghostwise

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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb


Too many waits for the singing bird without planting a tree.

- Ghostwise

The Hand That Gives Flowers.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

- Chinese Proverb


And it is sweeter than that bouquet of flowers.

- Ghostwise

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Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.

-Jeremy Bentham


Yet every night he stretched in vain to catch the stars,
While the waiting flowers withered and died at his feet.

- Ghostwise

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Full Moon On A Dark Night.

“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger”

- Chinese Proverbs


The imbecile's finger is larger than the moon.

- Ghostwise

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“May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.”

-Irish Blessings quotes


On a dark night without a moon, your kind words will still warm a cold evening.

- Ghostwise

Gratitude.

"We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought."

- Chinese Proverb


We, of little gratitude.

- Ghostwise

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

- Mark Twain,


Do you agree that dog generally understands Gratitude better than man? What does that say of man?

- Ghostwise