42. When your heart aches and tears are about to fall, look back: the sky that once belonged to us is still vast, and the clouds are still free. There is no need to cry, for our departure does not take your world away.
43. If a person betrays their benefactor after receiving great kindness, they are far more malicious than a complete stranger.
44. When people are questioned about a mistake, their typical reactions follow this order: first, denial; second, making excuses to justify themselves; third, blaming others; fourth, silence; and only fifth, admitting they were wrong.
45. An egg broken from the outside is merely food; broken from the inside, it is life.
46. 百年好光阴,忙忙过去,纵寿亦为夭。
47. 山河大地尚属微尘,而论尘中之尘。
48. 长幼内外,宜法肃词严。
49. People suffer because they constantly pursue the wrong things. Rather than saying life brings you pain, it is better to say your spiritual cultivation is insufficient.
50. Life consists of 5% brilliance, 5% pain, and 90% mundanity.
51. Do not cover up mistakes or hide your deficiencies.
52. What, then, is true tranquility?
53. Life is a journey through mountains and waters. Some things, if let go lightly, will bring ease; some small matters, if overthought, become big issues; some details, if taken too seriously, become tragedies. In the end, much of it is just illusion. People weigh people down, and hearts weigh hearts down. One should live lightly.
54. We must learn to find the sunny side of life. There are many positive aspects to living, yet many people overlook them, truly embodying the phrase: "only seeing one's misfortunes while ignoring one's happiness; magnifying others' joy while diminishing one's own."
55. Friendship is a cup of rich coffee, a ladder to maturity, a kind joke on April Fool's Day, and a passionate rose on Valentine's Day. It is like aged wine that intoxicates the heart whenever tasted.
56. Perhaps seeing the futility of life is itself the meaning of life.
57. Modern people have acquired a taste for money, yet money has not become more human. Whether man possesses money or money possesses man is hard to say.
58. Pain grows as your attention to it increases; it is your very attention that nourishes it.