Being timid, irritable, and filled with negative energy makes it difficult to achieve success and leads to being increasingly shunned by others. You must work incredibly hard to make it look effortless.
We often desire what we cannot have, yet find what we easily obtain to be insignificant; such is human nature. On life's journey, never regret the paths you have chosen. Life is like a train ride: no matter how beautiful the scenery, it inevitably recedes into the distance. Time and the people we meet will eventually drift away, leaving only your own continuous journey ahead.
In the end, you realize that the only person truly worthy of your love is yourself. Sometimes, someone enters your heart unnoticed, and only when they depart do you find yourself gazing back in long-lasting longing. This gaze is not the sweetness of love, but a bittersweet yearning that one must experience alone.
I could have chosen any subject, painted entirely different sketches or watercolors; my life could have had different encounters, if, before the lotus flowers in the fresh rain, you had simply walked by quietly. On that July afternoon, if, if you had not turned back.