文学是对生活的虚假再现,帮助我们更好地理解生活。
I don't do anything unless I feel like I can be the best at it.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
The study of intelligence must be grounded in the study of symbol systems.
每一个灵魂都需要休息和放松。
“我们实现明天的唯一限制是我们今天的怀疑。”
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.