A life with both joy and sorrow is fulfilling; a life with both success and failure is reasonable; a life with both gain and loss is fair. Life's hardships and ups and downs are what give it value. Where there is winning, there is losing; where there is success, there is failure; where there is gain, there is loss. To achieve greatness, one must take on responsibility; to find light, one must embrace darkness; to pursue a calling, one must make sacrifices. Any extraordinary feat comes with extraordinary perils and hardships; those who remain calm and composed amidst the whirlpool will eventually reach far.
Some great achievements in this world are made because some people are not "smart" enough to know they are supposedly impossible.
Life is long, how many moments of joy can one have? High towers are easy to build, but a good mood is hard to buy; let sorrows drift away with the wind; a carefree smile is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold.
If you approach climbing a mountain with a downward mindset, you will never reach the summit. To change the world, you must first change your own mindset.
Dearest Agnes, I went abroad to love you, I stayed abroad to love you, and I returned home to love you as well!
Fewer worldly affairs lead to less suffering; fewer words lead to fewer misfortunes; less food leads to less illness; and fewer desires lead to less worry.
Great wealth and status are not difficult to achieve, but peace and safety are; pleasure and entertainment are not hard to find, but freedom and leisure are!
If we have made a mistake, we have no reason to evade the responsibility we ought to bear. Our mistakes do not become irrelevant simply because we evade them; instead, they may lead to even more trouble. If we fail to take responsibility, our hearts will forever carry the burden of our errors, causing us to lose the chance at redemption.
