"True literature should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."
The wild doesn’t reward the strongest or the fastest. It rewards the most adaptable.
Literature is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
要想成为最好的,你必须能承受最坏的。
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Focus on directions rather than destinations. Who knows their destiny? But maintain the right direction and you’ll arrive at where you want to go.