宁做一年老虎，不做百年绵羊。
Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.
Pain is not always transformative; sometimes it just hurts.
心灵是一个不断重组的系统。
The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have been replaced by a general consensus on the desirability of liberal democracy.
The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.