如果一个人只希望幸福，这很容易实现；但我们希望比别人更幸福，这总是困难的，因为我们相信别人比他们实际更幸福。

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

The task of psychology is to analyze the given.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

To create is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist silence, to resist oppression.

我写作是为了理解，也同样是为了被理解。

世界是一本书，不旅行的人只读了一页。

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.