Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

我不太在乎别人怎么说我，我只做自己想做的事。

I never take anything for granted.