I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
我不想成为一棵树本身，而想成为它的意义。《我的名字叫红》
"I’m learning how to love myself."
真相是平衡，但真相的对立面——不平衡——未必是谎言。
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.