女人的希望是用阳光织成，阴影就能使它们破灭。 - 每日文摘

在梦想实现之前，世界之魂会考验沿途学到的一切。这样做不是因为它邪恶，而是为了让我们在实现梦想的同时，掌握我们在追逐梦想过程中学到的教训。这是大多数人放弃的地方。正如我们在沙漠语言中所说的，那是‘在棕榈树出现在地平线时死于口渴’。

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.'

保罗·科埃略

性分不可使不足，故其取数也宜多：曰穷理，曰尽性，曰达天，曰入神，曰致广大，极高明；情欲不可使有余，故其取数也宜少：曰谨言，曰慎行，曰约己，曰清心，曰节饮食，寡嗜欲。

充分发挥人的天性禀赋，发挥得越多越好：运用天性去穷究物理，极尽智力，通达自然，思惟神妙，造就豁达的胸怀和高洁的品德；尽量压抑人的情感欲望，遏制到越少越好：管束自己去谨慎说话，持重办事，约束自身，心地高洁，还要节衣缩食并减少情欲和嗜好。

金兰生

纯粹自然状态的条件...是每个人对每个人的战争状态。

The condition of mere nature...is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

托马斯·霍布斯

埋头苦干，不理闲事，是一种骄傲，并非退缩。

亦舒

在生活中，我从不惋惜过去，担忧未来，我只关心永恒的现在。准确地说，这就是幸福的定义。

切斯瓦夫·米沃什

还有一些其他的理由，使得我们更难获得平静。这有些矛盾，因为拥有自己的事业，是一件不错的事，但同时，人们也从未对自己的短暂一生有过这么高的期待。

There are other reasons --There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their life span.