Everyone is in search of a standard answer  
until they realize the dilemma:  
there's no answer beyond this point.  
Some will stop and settle,  
while others will set sail.  
When there’s no road ahead,  
that’s when the age of exploration begins. 

 Even when all things wither away, new vitality will emerge from the ground. 

Seek vitality rather than wallowing in decay. 

 Life is a journey of the grass-stage troupe returning to simplicity over long and arduous paths. 

 What is gained through an abundance of time-driven practice becomes the most steadfast; it internalizes, an indelible part of you, impervious to appropriation. 

 When the era has passed
Don't lie in the glory of the past reminiscing
The scenes are long gone
Look forward
Explore ahead
Doing something is always better than sighing 

 There's a lingering doubt in my mind, from thirty to forty, fifty-four, all the way to eighty, and I've realized there truly isn't a standard answer. Some questions aren't resolved, they just become less significant with the passage of age. 

 The only way to dispel charm is to resist it. 

 Fortune favours the bold 

 I have an inkling that this generation will forge new paths, for the old ones have grown congested and mired by the multitude of travelers.