That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

我不想坠入爱河，我只想入睡。

阅读好的文学作品就像经历一场爱情：它改变你。

A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. A poor man's body is like a stone, hard and rough and full of edges.

我认为年轻时经历一次严重的失败很重要……我从中学到了很多。因为它让你意识到可能会发生在你身上的事情。因此，在我的一生中，当我们濒临崩溃时，我从未感到害怕。我从不害怕。

释义：在探究事物的道理和实践中，要像在独处时一样谨慎自律，时刻保持警惕、戒备，防止自己的所思所为有不符合天道良知的事情，通过对私欲的严防死守和克除，实现致良知和修身的目的。