The 11th Day of the Chinese New Year

The eleventh day of the Chinese New Year. We had a morning assembly, in which our principal Mr. Wu (吳正東校長) read to the juniors the 20 commandments on the wall at Harvard University. I missed the first few but was glad that I heard at least a very good sentence: "If you don't walk today, you will need to run tomorrow." This sentence is related to what we are learning in Unit One, "Putting Things Off."
Eureka! Just now I keyed in the first half of the sentence and found several websites with the 20 commandments. Here is the first on the list:

http://translate.google.com.tw/translate?hl=zh-TW&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.jpwz8.com/mingyan/hafotushuguanqiangshangde-20-tiaoxunyan.html&ei=lRiFS438AYugkQXtq5CSAw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522if%2Byou%2Bdon%2527t%2Bwalk%2Btoday%2522%26hl%3Dzh-TW%26rlz%3D1T4GGLL_zh-TWTW327TW328

If you feel too lazy to go to the website, just read on.

1. If you nap now, you will dream; if you study now, you will realize your dreams.

2. The today that I have wasted, is the tomorrow that yesterday's dead so desperately wish for.

3. When you realize it's too late, it's actually the earliest time to act. (Not sure this makes that much sense, but ok)

4. Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

5. The torment of studying is temporary, the torment of ignorance is forever.

6. Learning lacks not time but effort.

7.Happiness might not have care about your rank, but success definitely does.

8. Learning might not be the entirety of one's life, but if one cannot even surmount this one small area, what can one succeed at?

9. Please enjoy the pain that you cannot avoid.

10. Only studying harder and earlier than others can one taste success.

11. No one can casually succeed, success comes from total self-discipline and willpower.

12. Time is fleeting.

13. The saliva that you drool in your nap today, will be the tears of tomorrow.

14. Study like a dog; play like a wastrel.

15. If you don't walk today, you will need to run tomorrow.

16. The person who invests in the future is a person who is loyal to reality.

17. Education is proportional to income.

18. Once today is over, it is gone.

19. Even now, my opponent has not relaxed in his study.

20. No pain, no gain.

Today I got a small gift from a colleague, a substitute teacher. It was a mobile accessory, with a tiny Genjo Sanzo (唐三藏) figurine. He told me Genjo Sanzo will always protect me. Touching!