Four Seasons in One Day
- Do not underestimate your ability or overestimate your perseverance. Most people repeat but very few really persist.
- Strength is derived from recalling memories that bring happiness and confidence-as thoughts influence action.
- Standard is for average people, whereas customized profile is for people above: we are supposed to be different and unique.
- Aptitude determines altitude, and effort draws the lower bound where most people are far from competing with talent.
- Life does not throw you things you cannot handle, and pressure will eventually build diamonds.
- My parents have suffered and overcome a lot more than I have in worse situations so there is no excuse for me to give up.
- Fear is only an amazing act of profound and insightful imagination which most creative minds fail to forgo.
- Best reader of fear have artistic and scientific temperament; coolness of judgement tempers intuitive reaction to fear.
- We often conjure up the most lurid, vivid and wrong stories-which are often the easiest to imagine.
- According to researches, introvert leaders, who are less likely to take outsized risks, deliver better outcomes and are more knowledgable than extroverts.
- Have the courage to be imperfect, have the compassion to be kind to ourselves then to others, and have connection as a result of authenticity: the willingness to let go who they thought they should be, in order to be who they are.
- Embracing vulnerability is what makes people beautiful, the act of being uncomfortable, but necessary.
- We cannot selectively numb our emotions: if we numb vulnerability, we numb joy by default.
- In school we are given the opportunity to prepare for the challenge of examinations, whereas in life, we learn only after being confronted with an unforeseeable challenge. We don't create a life and live it, but are created by living.
- We all have painful predicament that others cannot relate to, and happiness that cannot be shared with others.
- Modern people do not treasure their feelings like ancient people felt sadness when they left hometown without going back.
- We obliterate the drive to sacrifice ourselves for the one in a peaceful era.
- Passion is the full force of energy and attention that you can give to whatever is right in front of you.
- The most fulfilling career and relationship are those that still have power to surprise you, rather than those derive from passion through seeking in tunnel vision.
- With all due respect, it is still not your turn to tell me that I am not good enough. Even if you do, I still don't have to express the same negative feeling to myself.
- Biology dictates reality. Before changing your world, you have to believe that you can change it.
- The first and oft-repeated step of self-recovery is admitting one's powerlessness.
- Mental strength, similar to physical strength, not only established by practicing good habits such as gratitude and self-confidence, but also by giving up bad habit like resenting other body else's success.
- Who you choose to be around you let you know who you are.
- Life is simple. You make choices and you don't look back. - Fast and Furious 3
- Negatives tend to stick and propagate. It takes effort to see the upside and boost well-being, so ask yourself, what happened today that was good?
- Reflection can lead to unrealistic expectation. When you let go without overthinking, you are fully prepared for whatever that will come up.
- Anything worth doing is worth doing badly for the first time (G.K. Chesterton). It speeds up your decision making and catapults you straight into action. When you look back, there is always a worse scenario of doing nothing.
- To build up healthy relationship: have the insight to understand ourselves, have the mutuality to care for others, and have the emotional regulation to come back up.
- Live your own life, otherwise you are giving too much power to others and letting them to determine your life.
- There is nothing on this planet so toxic as guilt. No one will punish you for your error, why punish yourself? Just learn the lesson and let it go.
- There is never a perfect condition for doing something perfect. It is never worthless or too late to start from today.
- Each and every one of us has a different definition of success, jealousy does nothing but hinder us from reaching our own success.
- 喜剧的核心是悲剧。对痛苦开开玩笑,没必要比惨。