Li Bai Quotes

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

Shade and light are different in every valley.

All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

I'm not superstitious.

I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

Forever and forever and forever

Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

Fumes of wine shorten the long road.

Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

You have to be proud of who you are.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.

I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

The definition of love is giving.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.