A clear Milky Way and snaking clouds signal fog is near. If you know how earth, sky, yin and yang change, then the sun, moon and stars, the wind, forest, mountains and fire, become soldiers at your command.
Zhuge Liang, 诸葛亮, Red Cliff, 心・戰
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
좋은 친구와 좋은 책, 그리고 살아있는 양심이야말로 가장 이상적인 생활이다. (Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.)
Korean Proverb, 한국 속담
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
师傅领进门，修行在个人[Shī fu lǐng jìn mén, xiū xíng zài gè rén] (Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.)
Chinese Proverb, 諺語 [yànyŭ]
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Gollum, The Hobbit
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 