Often it is within your power to find a decent, fitting way to express your native sincerity and maintain good health thereby. Art can be very helpful. Artistic ways of expressing oneself can be fine too. Both great artfulness and skills can be trained. Zen has many good outlets.
Haiku poetry is included.
And many good points are found in folklore. Sometimes art and history blends considerably. That is the case with how the sagas of the Norwegian kings came about. Besides, excellent proverbs and terse statements are found in folklore and poetry too. Still, they have had surprising, immense effects throughout history.