The human mind is capable of comprehending the universe because the universe has generated minds capable of comprehending it.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
"In the end, we are all just stories. What matters is how we tell them."
从未经历过痛苦，也就从未被赐福。
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.