Life presents many kinds of choices. For the fortunate, choice is proactive pursuit among many opportunities. For adventurers, it is a gamble of putting everything on the line. For those in hardship, it becomes an inescapable predicament.
In the eyes of the sick, health is a blessing. In the eyes of those suffering, peace is a blessing. Yet when we have not lost them, we often do not regard them as blessings. Human nature tends to value what is hard-won and overlook what is easy, seeking what is distant while neglecting what is near; thus happiness is difficult to grasp.
Truly becoming oneself is not easy. Many people in the world can be described as a profession, an identity, or a role, but not as themselves. If a person always lives according to others’ opinions, lacks independent thinking, and is busy only with external affairs without inner life, then saying he is not himself is not unfair. From mind to soul, there is nothing truly his own left; he becomes merely an echo of others and a machine of tasks.
True faith is essentially an inner awakening, a transcendence of bodily life by the soul, and a pursuit and understanding of the highest spiritual values.
You are not only a living being but also a unique individual, a self. This self is one of a kind; there is only one you in the world. It is also unrepeatable; you have only one life. Therefore, being responsible for your life and realizing your own value is your fundamental duty.
What I love may be what he dislikes; what I abandon may be exactly what he desires.
Extraordinary environments produce extraordinary wisdom; in extremely harsh conditions, people's main concern is survival.
In corners where sunlight cannot reach, moths no longer have faith.
Love is not about finding someone you want to live with, but someone without whom you cannot live.
