The world is a puzzle; the pieces are scattered, and no one has the picture on the box.
世界是一个谜题;碎片散落一地,没有人有盒子上的图片。
The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
你必须承担个人责任。你无法改变环境、季节或风,但你可以改变自己。这是你可以掌控的事情。
没有承诺,你永远不会开始,但更重要的是,没有坚持,你永远不会完成。
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
The ocean doesn't belong to any one nation; it's a shared resource that requires global stewardship.