13. Be patient with petty people; taking a step back opens up a vast sky. As the saying goes, great people are magnanimous, while petty people are narrow-minded. Provoking them only brings trouble, so it is better to keep your distance.
14. Do you think poverty and plainness mean a lack of emotion? I swear, if God granted me wealth and beauty, I would make you unable to leave me, just as I cannot leave you now. Though God has not done so, we remain equals in spirit.
15. Choosing confidence means choosing an open and calm mind. It means remaining unmoved by fame and fortune, standing tall in the face of power, and setting the sails of confidence to navigate the waves with grace.
16. Life is filled with diverse experiences—both joyful and sorrowful. Through the vicissitudes of time, life is no longer monotonous. Whether one feels lonely or solitary no longer matters; maturity is reflected upon one's face.
17. In the end, I realize the only one I can love is you... Sometimes, a person enters your heart unnoticed, and only when they walk far away do you find yourself gazing at them for a long time. This gaze is not the sweetness of love, but a silent longing, bittersweet and meant to be tasted alone.
18. To weep for you is a form of harm. Who sits beneath the Bodhi tree, palms pressed together, counting the falling blossoms season after season through reincarnation? Who plucks melancholic melodies in the three thousand worlds? And who is intoxicated by ink and brush, writing endlessly of the mortal realm?
19. Those destined to meet in this world do not necessarily have to love or stay together; one must learn to appreciate. Some love you but cannot offer a home. The most enduring affection is not mutual torment in the name of love, but being each other's companion and sunshine.
20. I do not care for the sentiment "If love lasts forever, why must we be together day and night"—that kind of happiness is detached yet untouchable. I dislike the distance of "long pavilions and short pavilions," leaving one to pine in solitude from afar.
21. What is life? Life is a monument in the edifice of history, a pair of oars battling the waves, a flower among a hundred blooms... Let us create a beautiful life with our own hands.
22. Everyone knows the story of the caterpillar turning into a butterfly. If butterflies had memories, they would remember the trials of fate and the painful metamorphosis. To transform from ugly to beautiful proves that as long as we do not give up our efforts, fate will reward us with a legend; as long as we maintain our passion for life, life will reward us with a beautiful destiny. To achieve a beautiful destiny, pain is also a form of beauty; the journey of life is a series of beautiful transformations, for it is through painful metamorphosis that a brilliant new life is born.
23. Every person has a unique, non-repeatable chance at survival. Fame, wealth, and knowledge are external; no one can experience life on your behalf. Life has no ownership, only the right to use it. "The flower is not yet fully bloomed, and the moon is not yet full"—this is the finest state of being, for incompleteness keeps the heart full of anticipation and hope.
24. Do not fear grand dreams, fear only the lack of them. Even if you are mocked for distant dreams, do not mind; at least you still have a dream. With persistence and hard work, dreams can come true. Dreams are life's stage, and though sometimes locked away by circumstances, by persisting like a dedicated performer fighting against time, we can eventually smile at life with victory.
25. The hardest thing in life is to be "just right." No one knows what would happen if one step were forward or backward. Perhaps we should treat "just right" as a goal in life.
