Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

让我能够做出人生重大抉择的最主要办法是，记住生命随时都有可能结束。因为几乎所有的东西——所有对自身之外的希求、所有的尊严、所有对困窘和失败的恐惧——在死亡来临时都将不复存在，只剩下真正重要的东西。记住自己随时都会死去，这是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已经一无所有了，还有什么理由不跟着自己的感觉走呢。

史蒂夫·乔布斯

优秀的创业者会控制开支。

萨姆·奥尔特曼

自律是目标和成就之间的桥梁。

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

亚瑟小子

真与美是相似的。

詹姆斯·乔伊斯

世界是一个非常复杂的地方，而且它并没有变得简单。

The world is a very complicated place, and it's not getting any simpler.

拉斯洛·克拉斯纳霍卡伊

生未百年，死不孤独。

加西亚·马尔克斯

痛苦遗留给你的一切，请细加回味！苦难一经过去，苦难就变为甘美。

歌德

As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore, which was only a low green line on the sea.

太阳升起时，他看到其他一些船只都头朝着海岸，在海上看来海岸就像是一条接近地平线的绿带子。

海明威

那些无法控制主导他们生活的故事的人，无法重述、重新思考、解构、开玩笑并随着变化而改变它的人，真正是无力的，因为他们无法思考新的思想。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.