"Dost thou love life ...."

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

To see clearly ....

To see clearly

To listen sharply

To speak consciously –

Into the Year of the Monkey.

"At my age ...."

At my age … I’m going to do what I want to and I haven’t got time for anything else.

Florynce Kennedy

"... from a wild animal ...."

"... from a wild animal ... I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive."

"With elixirs ...."

With elixirs, the body is ever healthy

Without calculation, one’s mind is naturally tranquil.

Xu Hun, a Tang poet