“Heaven on Earth is a choice you
must make, not a place you must find.”
“A hundred years—in this life span on earth
talent and destiny are apt to feud.
You must go through a play of ebb and flow
and watch such things as make you sick at heart.
Is it so strange that losses balance gains?
Blue Heaven's wont to strike a rose from spite.”
Opening lines
The Tale of Kiều (1813)
Original
Trăm năm trong cõi người ta, Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau. Trải qua một cuộc bể dâu, Những điều trông thấy mà đau đớn lòng. Lạ gì bỉ sắc tư phong, Trời xanh quen thói má hồng đánh ghen.
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Nguyễn Du 12
Vietnamese poet 1765–1820Related quotes
“There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.”
Source: Iced
That's Tough (Non-album single credited to Lyngstad, Hans Fredriksson, and Kirsty MacColl), from Shine (1984)
Lyrics, Shine (1984)
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
Source: Jacob's Room (1922), Ch. 8
Context: The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
quoted in David Hilliard (2006) Huey: Spirit of the Panther, p. 46