Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
人生太短暂,不能活在别人的梦想里。
Lonely people have their own bog.
最好的摄影是看不见的;它为故事服务而不引起注意。
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."