And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

每一次的努力都是为了更好的未来。

The artist must be a child of the mystery.

选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·殊路》。至，最。璞，含有玉的石头或未经雕琢过的玉。最美的东西就是最本色自然的东西，是没有什么东西可以文饰它的。此言自然本色便是美，是道家崇尚自然的思想观点。

阅读不应该被当作一项家务或责任呈现给孩子。它应该被当作一份珍贵的礼物送给他们。