I don’t need a crown to know I’m a king.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
雎鸠在水面张翼低飞,黄莺在枝头婉转歌唱。河面鸳鸯交颈,空中群鸟飞翔。叽喳的鸣叫声,旋律动听美妙。逍遥于春光中,令我心情欢畅。
"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."
The truth is often hidden in plain sight.
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.