This document contains several proverbs and sayings about life's journeys, learning, and taking action. It advises that any worthwhile journey requires steady, incremental progress over time. It also notes that having direct conversations with wise people provides great insights, and that asking questions can help overcome ignorance, while inaction leaves one unaware. Additionally, it suggests focusing on local, practical actions rather than distant efforts, and maintaining optimism in times of difficulty.

1. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

2. A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

3. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song

4. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever

5. Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

6. The journey is the reward.

7. If you want to know your past look int o your present conditions. If you want to know your future look into your present actions.

8. There is no wave without wind.

9. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

10. There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

11. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

12. If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

13. Better to light a candle than to curse the darknes s

14. Distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand.