Pan Guang, China

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller, USA

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. Anthony Rapp, USA

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates, Classical Greece

We are each other’s business; we are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks, USA

We love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anaïs Nin, France

The days that make us happy make us wise. John Masefield, England

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Ezra Pound, USA

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Janis Joplin, USA

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, USA

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and... F. Scott Fitzgerald, USA

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. Jack Kerouac, USA

You must never understand life, and then, it will be like a party. Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement. J. Krishnamurti, India

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future. Amin Maalouf, Lebanon

Pan Guang, China

Director of the Shanghai Center for International Studies, Dean of the Center of Jewish Studies, Shanghai, and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Society of Middle East Studies.

Leafy Trees

Pan Guang, China

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Our life is the prolongation of that of our ancestors and we progress in it following their footsteps. In turn, the life of our successors is a prolongation of our own: when the shoot we plant becomes a leafy tree, they will be able to sit in the freshness of its shade.
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