When you are old and strong, you would rather move your heart with a gray head; when you are poor and strong, you will not fall into the clouds!
——"Preface to Tengwang Pavilion" Tang Dynasty: Wang Bo
The translation is as follows:
How can a person's aspirations be changed just because of his gray hair as he gets older and his feelings become more heroic? When the circumstances are difficult but his will becomes firmer, he will never lose his ambition to reach the top.
Some people died at the age of thirty and were only buried at the age of seventy.
Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased trees. ——Tang Dynasty: Liu Yuxi's "Rewarding Lotte at the First Banquet in Yangzhou"
Interpretation: There are still thousands of sailboats passing by the capsized ships; there are also thousands of thriving trees in front of the withered trees.