俭，德之共也，侈，恶之大也。

韩愈

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."

阿兰·德波顿

孤独不是缺乏陪伴，而是缺乏目的。

Loneliness is not a lack of company, but a lack of purpose.

达蒙·加尔古特

以爱妻子之心爱父母，则孝行自笃。

周希陶

The progress of science is not a straight line, but a series of zigzags, sometimes seeming to go backward before a new advance is made.

科学的进步不是一条直线，而是一系列曲折，有时在新的进展之前似乎会倒退。

约翰·亨利·坡印廷

每一个人对每一种物品所愿支付的价格，决定于他的财货的数量。

亚当·斯密

相识满天下。知心能几人。