Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Phenomena are the outer expressions of hidden essences.

我对事物的表面不感兴趣，而是对隐藏在表面之下的东西感兴趣。

Time does not heal all wounds; some remain, becoming part of us.

"The essence of literature is to capture the fleeting moments of human experience and give them permanence through words."

解释：人饿的时候，之所以不吃乌头毒药，是认为即使能填饱肚子，但是会马上死去。