Sometimes, we feel inexplicably down, not wanting to speak to anyone, only wanting to stare blankly in solitude. Sometimes, in the dead of night, it’s not that we can’t sleep, but that we are stubbornly unwilling to. Sometimes, a song brings back memories of someone. Sometimes, when others say you have changed, a flood of emotions arises. The self that was lost must be slowly reclaimed.
Learn to smile at life and let life illuminate your path. Never frown at life; instead, embrace life and enrich your experiences. Only after experiencing true life can one turn toward the world of focus. It is only through focus that one finds stability, tranquility of the soul, and the maturity of the mind.
Nothing can be predicted in advance. The only things we can control are what we see before us and what we hold in our hands. When you can read, read; when you can work, work; when you can love, love; and when you can marry, marry. When circumstances do not permit, do not force it; when the timing arrives, do not let it pass. This is the essence of a person's life philosophy.
Living in a humble room, accompanied by objects and enjoying solitude, especially in the quiet morning when no one visits. I am no lonelier than a duck in a playful lake or Walden Pond itself, for the lake water can be a companion. I am like a dandelion on the vast prairie, a leaf, a fly, or a bumblebee; none of us feel lonely.
A shell takes a lifetime to transform countless grains of sand into an irregular pearl, and a rainbow after the rain requires the accumulation of vast amounts of moisture to bloom. If these are seen as setbacks, then it is these very setbacks that create the dazzling pearl and the beautiful rainbow.