大海不拒绝各种各样的水,所以才能成就它的博大;大山不拒绝形形色色的土石,所以才能成就它的高峻;贤明的君主不嫌弃百姓,所以能够聚集众多的臣民;读书人不厌倦学习,所以能达到圣贤的境界。
世界是平的,但竞技场并不公平。
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
The soul of a nation lives in its language.
To write is to explore the unknown territories of the soul.
"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."