Devote all heart and strength to your family; commit your whole life to the enterprise at hand. - Master Sheng Yen

The great must make allowance for the small; the small must reflect upon the great. - Master Sheng Yen

The way to get along with others is to communicate effectively. When communication fails, compromise, when compromise fails, tolerate and forgive. - Master Sheng Yen

When you change your way of thinking, what is around you will transform accordingly; nowhere in the world will you find absolute good or bad. - Master Sheng Yen

If you wish to build good relationships with others, develop a broad mind, and become more tolerant and forgiving. - Master Sheng Yen

The good are not lonely; the benevolent, happiest; ever and always help others and thus achieve the utmost happiness for yourself. - Master Sheng Yen

Right now you gather what you have planted; what you harvest tomorrow, you plant at this moment. - Master Sheng Yen

Great possessions don't necessarily bring satisfaction; few possessions don't necessarily lead to poverty. - Master Sheng Yen

Offering yourself is cultivation; calming your mind is success - Master Sheng Yen

Character creates wealth; giving creates savings. - Master Sheng Yen

Seek a peaceful mind, and you will find a peaceful refuge; treasure others and you will find fortune and happiness. - Master Sheng Yen

Harmony within and without, harmony in causes and conditions, and thus freedom, peace and tranquility will follow. - Master Sheng Yen

Harmony with myself and others, harmony in mind and speech, and thus blessed with joy and happiness. - Master Sheng Yen

An urgent task needs immediate attention? Be ready now! - Master Sheng Yen

If everyday, everyone spoke another kind word, did another good deed, then all of these little beneficial acts would turn into a great, great good. - Master Sheng Yen

Let everyone speak kindly! Let everyone do good deeds! Let everyone's bad luck turn to good! - Master Sheng Yen

Kind words on everyone's lips! Good deeds in everyone's heart! Good fortune in everyone's life! - Master Sheng Yen

Don’t control emotions by suppressing them; calm them with contemplation, reciting Buddha’s name, or prayer. - Master Sheng Yen

A rich man is content with what he has; a poor man accumulates and is never satisfied. - Master Sheng Yen

Know clearly that an unsettled mind is trouble. Right then and there – recite "Homage to Guan Yin, Bodhisattva Avalokitesavara” to calm your mind. - Master Sheng Yen

True suffering is a mind without peace or calm. Physical pain and illness are not necessarily suffering. - Master Sheng Yen

Having few desires bring riches without worry. Master Sheng Yen

We love to grasp what we love and reject what we dislike; gain and loss, gain and loss - vexations are sure to come. - Master Sheng Yen

Insight comes from wisdom; good fortune, from merit. - Master Sheng Yen

Stop the litter, clutter and garbage! Always clean up and pick up what you can. These are virtuous acts. - Master Sheng Yen