我们都是自己生活的作者,但我们也是别人故事中的角色。
选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·相刺》。即便像扁鹊那样医术高明的人,病人不肯接受针药的治疗,也是没有办法医治好他的病;即便是贤圣之士,如果国君没有接受正言相谏的雅量,那么贤圣也无能为力。这句话用良医治病也要病人配合和治国光靠贤圣之士的才干还不够做对比,更加充分的说明了贤君配合之道理。
我们都被自己过去的影子所困扰。
作家是专业的观察者。
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
学者必须自信,既然自信,无论如何也无法被剥夺。
发现的道路很少是一条直线。
你不尝试就不知道你能达到什么。
释义:从天下的角度看,应遵循天下的公理,天下不是某一姓的私有财产。