| 1 | They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. | |
| 2 | As another Chinese maxim puts it, "The lotus root is broken, but the string still connects." | |
| 3 | Never a clean break, no one here to save me. | |
| 4 | They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. | |
| 5 | They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. |