"I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get."

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Source : Bai Juyi, “The Chrysanthemums In The Eastern Garden”

Bai Juyi

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“The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.”
“I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.”
“Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear.”
“This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.”
“Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.”
“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”

Source : "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2005.
“In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.”

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