Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
用心栽花、施肥、灌溉,花却总是不开;无意间将柳条插在地上,却长成了郁郁葱葱的柳树。
Change starts with a vision, but it’s persistence that turns it into reality.
I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.