"Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent."

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Source : Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.103, Broadway Books

Mitch Albom

“Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.15, Penguin
“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Source : "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.
“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia”
“Better one suffer than a nation grieve.”
“When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.”
“Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.”
“I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.”

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