我们可以从书店中感受到这些问题所造成的后果，当你像我一样到大型书店里的，自我帮助书籍类。如果你分析现在出版的这些自我帮助类书籍，它们基本上分成两种，第一种告诉你“你做得到！你能成功！没有不可能！”另外一种则教导你如何处理，我们婉转地称呼为“缺乏自信”，或是直接了当地称为“自我感觉极差”。
The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."
80% of life's most defining moments take place by age 35.
孔子说：“有益的爱好有三种，有害的爱好有三种。爱好礼乐、爱好称赞别人的优点，爱好广结善友，有益处；爱好放荡、爱好闲逛、爱好大吃大喝，有害处。”
在我写的每一个字中，我试图捕捉生命的短暂瞬间，让它们停留得更久一些。
我们的感官以我们才刚刚开始理解的方式定义着我们的现实。
Failure is simply the universe's way of teaching you what not to do next time.