Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.
辅时：适应时势行事。违时：违背时势行事。当时：适时。圣人行事能够适应时势，不能违背时势。聪明人善于谋划，不如利用合适的时机。
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
"Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself."
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
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.