不是所有面对的事情都能改变，但在面对之前，什么都不会改变。

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all doing direct the other way.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

如果没有经历寒冷的冬天，就不知道松柏的坚韧挺拔；没有经历过危难的事情，就不知道君子志向的远大。