The past is a shadow that follows us, but it is our choice whether to let it define us or to step into the light.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

模仿是最稳妥的创新。

I'm a true believer that if you put in the work, the results will come.

问题在于我们不仅不理性，而且是可预测的非理性——我们的非理性行为会以同样的方式一再发生。

我不想有一天醒来，发现自己没有充分活过。

最好的书是读完仍让你久久思考的书。