「陽光溫熱，歲月靜好，你還不來，我怎敢老去。」-- 張愛玲《傾城之戀》

「盡情做自己吧，儘管暢所欲言，因爲介意的人不重要，而重要的人不介意。」—— 伯納德·巴魯克 “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ― Bernard M. Baruch

「快樂法則：有事做、有愛人、有希望。」—— 伊曼努爾·康德 "Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for." - Immanuel Kant

Joy & Entrepreneurship

[Entrepreneurship] To make the unachievable achievable, the unattainable attainable, the unthinkable thinkable, the unimaginable imaginable, the inconceivable conceivable, the unbelievable believable, and lastly, to make everything impossible become possible!

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." - Rumi

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep on going. No feeling is final." - Rainer Maria Rilke 

"The secret of happiness, you sew, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." - Socrates 

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive." - Hafez

https://youtu.be/ndLOF9jJnR4

Abundance + fulfilment + contentment

愛情，生於安樂，死於憂患。命運的變化總是微妙，正所謂境隨心轉，而我們所見的現實世界其實是我們內心的投射。男女之情之事也一樣。

到了最後，驀然回首，我所經歷的一切及其結果，不論喜怒哀樂，其實都是我潛意識裡正想要達到的，也就是内心深處引導行動造成的。

Reality is a perception of mind. There must be some kind of balancing karmic mechanism in attaining energy equilibrium in this universe -- self-confidence and ego are inversely proportional to each other -- so please love yourself!

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Von Goethe 

"Today I escaped anxiety. Oh no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside." - Marcus Aurelius 

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean De La Bruyere 

"The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." - Epictetus

愛自己

不管你是誰，為什麼愛自己那麼重要？---> 打個比方，我想獲得諾貝爾獎。我若是跪舔、討好、賄賂、收買、甚至恐嚇或威脅評委，他們反而會更加瞧不起我。那該怎麼辦才是正確的做法呢？我要做的，就是愛自己，也就是為自己做出一番成績，讓全世界看見，這樣評委就不得不認可我了。而就算最後我沒有得獎，那又如何？我都已經名留青史了。

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." - Zeno

"The struggle is great, the task divine - to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility." - Epictetus 

“I never think about the future. It comes too soon.” – Albert Einstein

“A man wo dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

"You have to die a few times before you can really live." - C. Bukowski

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

天無二日，國無二君，山無二虎！

天無二日，國無二君，山無二虎，所以英雄總是孤獨。我去社交雖情非得已，但勇於踏出這一步乃是一大進步。我確實是變壞了，但我並沒有壞掉，因為女人喜歡壞男人，而不是喜歡壞掉的男人。

The "alpha" leader must be isolated from his followers; the "sigma" high achiever ought to be secluded from those with mediocrity. Loneliness and social vulnerability are the cause of suffering yet it is the exact prerequisite to be outstanding, and paradoxically, to become popular and welcome by the few elites.

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein 

"People expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus 

"Better to fail in imagination than to succeed in limitation." - Herman Melville 

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Salvador Vali

"Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver." - Lee Tolstoy

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." - Albert Camus 

"I know that I do not know." - Socrates 

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle 

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." - Hegel

"Make a difference about something other than yourselves." - Tomi Morrison 

"Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas." - Eleanor Roosevelt

「讓懂的人懂，讓不懂的人不懂；讓世界是世界，我甘心是我的繭。」—— 簡媜《美麗的繭》

"One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." - Thomas Paine 

"Amor Fati -- love your fate -- which is in fact your life." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you." - Jean Cocteau 

"The present is all we have to live in. Or to lose." - Marcus Aurelius 

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone De Beauvoir 

"Remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it." - Sylvia Plath 

"There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence." - Alexander Dumas

"If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." - Paulo Coelho

她説：「世間萬物皆苦，你明目張膽的偏愛是救贖。」

我說：「這世上哪來那麽多天長地久，把握當下自在的幸福才是最實在的。」

【青玉案·元夕】《青玉案·元夕》南宋詞人 辛棄疾

東風夜放花千樹，更吹落，星如雨。

寶馬雕車香滿路。

鳳簫聲動，玉壺光轉，一夜魚龍舞。

蛾兒雪柳黃金縷，笑語盈盈暗香去。

眾里尋他千百度，驀然回首，

那人卻在，燈火闌珊處。

剛柔

內心越是強大的人，就越是勇於展現自己柔弱的一面；反觀那些一直張牙舞爪的人，才是真正深怕被他人看穿自身的不濟；而我們所炫耀的一切，恰恰正好就是我們所在乎的人、事、物。

"A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him." - Confucius

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

兩極化

當有人喜歡你的時候，肯定會有別人不喜歡你；

如果不希望別人不喜歡你，那就沒人會喜歡你。

雖然展現高價值必然會出現兩極化是結果，但我仍然認為實力和條件是必需被展現出來的，否則自身優點永遠無人問津；舉凡慾成大事者，皆不畏懼鋒芒畢露、亦不怕樹大招風；倘一心只求明哲保身，則注定一世庸碌。

我們只需要做最好的自己，顧好自己的範疇就好；既然沒有對不起任何人，則無需尋求他人的認可。

"Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk but no flowers grow." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd." - Friedrich Nietzsche