The hardest step is over the threshold

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping

It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce

Once on a tiger’s back it is hard to alight

Forethought is easy, repentance hard

We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha’s feet

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour

Easy to believe in Heaven’s law, but so hard to keep