【原文】子贡曰：“贫而无谄，富而无骄，何如?”子曰：“可也。未若贫而乐，富而好礼者也。”子贡曰：“《诗》云：‘如切如磋，如琢如磨’，其斯之谓与?”子曰：“赐也，始可与言《诗》已矣，告诸往而知来者。”【译文】子贡说：“贫穷却不阿谀奉承，富贵却不狂妄自大，怎么样?”孔子说：“可以了。(但是)不如贫穷而乐于道，富贵而谦虚好礼的好。”子贡说：“完善自身的修养，既像雕刻骨器，又像雕刻象牙；既像雕琢玉器，又像雕刻石头一样下功夫，恐怕说得就是这个道理吧?”孔子说：“子贡啊，现在可以与你谈诗了。提起学过的知识，你就知道将要学的知识，并有所发挥。”

The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.

成功不仅仅是赚钱，而是要有所作为。

The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

角色是追逐我的幽灵，直到我在纸上赋予它们声音。

The mind is a temporal pattern of processes.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.