No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. 没有大胆的猜测就没有伟大的发现. When our ancestors saw the birds flying in the sky, they wondered that can people fly in the sky like birds. Then some of them started to try. After hundreds of thousands of time…

In every triumph, there's a lot of try. 每个胜利背后都有许多尝试. There's a lot of try behind every success, and there's as well a lot of try behind some failure. And the later will be much more disappointed, but the usual condition is that I failed once, then I…

Never forget to say "Thanks." 永远不要忘记说谢谢. Don't take anything we get for granted, and never forget to say "Thanks" for people who help us, who serve us... But sometimes it would be quite hard to show our gratitudes when we genuinely and…

Real love is not just instinct, but intent. 真正的爱不是身体上的一见钟情,而是要用心去经营. What is real love? Honestly, I have no idea, and I think most of the love relationship may be conditional, there is seldom unconditional love or real love. Even the strongest love m…

Of all the tribulations in this world, boredom is the one most hard to bear. 所有的苦难中,无聊是最难以忍受的. When you feel bored, you may fail to focus on things you desire and you will easily get tired. Because boredom often stimulates a form of anxiety and stres…

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. 始终面朝阳光,我们就不会看到黑暗. I love sunshine, but if it is shrouded in darkness, I still can keep moving forward in fear instead of just fearing. Life can never avoid disappointments and sadness, som…

People always want to lead an active life, and is not it? 人们总要乐观生活,不是吗? Be active, and walk towards things you want to touch. Even if it is far away from the current position we are in, if we can keep moving toward it, we will get closer and closer t…

No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again. 不管过去有多么困难,你都可以重新开始. Honestly, I don't agree with your opinion, I think it is just a toxic chicken-soup for the soul. Why I think it is toxic? Just because for most of us, today is nothing bu…

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. 坚持不是一个长跑,她是很多一个接一个的短跑. Today I want to compile the tangram-es library for my system and try to run its examples. After working on the compilation for just thirty minutes, I fi…

Only someone who is well-prepared has the opportunity to improvise. 只有准备充分的人才能够尽兴表演. From the first day I joined this department, I found to be qualified for the job requires kinds of abilities that I hadn't had yet, for example, the ability to effec…

If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there. 如果你不知道自己要去哪里,你可能永远到不了那里. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 完成一个任务的奖励是完成下一个任务的动力. From George Eliot.…

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. 我们教会人们如何记忆,却从来不教他们如何成长. Without practising the knowledge we have learned from books and from other's example, we never can transform those knowledge into ours, and they may have little…

We both look up at the same stars, yet we see such different things. 我们仰望同一片星空,却看见了不同的事物. Looking up at the stars, some may think it is due to the darkness that we can see the stars, whereas some think it is due to the stars that make the night more…

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. 如果我们有勇气去追求梦想,我们的梦想一定可以成为现实. If you don't dare to pursue what you are longing for, they only exist in your dreams and never come true. If you have the courage to pursure them and take…

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong. 每次人们赞同我时,我都觉得自己一定错了. We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. 我们可以从过去学到些什么,但不能活在过去.…

I love you not for who you are, but for who I am with you. 我爱你并不是因为你是谁,而是我在你面前可以是谁. I love you just because I am afraid of being lonely, I long for love, I want to have someone accompany me in the remaining of my life, that's all. When staying with y…

Whatever happened in the past is gone, the best is always yet to come. 无论过去发生什么,最好的永远尚未到来. Correct judgements stem from thorough investigations and study. Don't come to your conclusion too early without concrete proof and careful consideration, parti…

A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep. 狮子可不会在意绵羊是怎么想的. As a sheep, you must run and keep alert. It is said that soldiers who are fighting togehter often have a strong feeling of brotherhood, so can sheep who eat grass together can…

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. 不要祈祷舒适的生活,而是祈祷自己能变得更强大. It seems this quotation is from John Kennedy, one of the greatest and most famous presidents of the United States. Why did he obtain so high rates as a president? Checking t…

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. 一个人可以被毁灭,但不能被打败. Before he was destroyed, he would have been defeated many times. Both confidence and success are always abtained through accumulation, step by step, little by little. A series of failures, con…

Find hope from despair, life will become brilliant. 从绝望中寻找希望,人生终将辉煌. Have you ever seen the movie Batman: The Dark Knight Rises? There are many classic actor's lines full of philosophy in the movie. And the most impressive one, in my opinion, goes as…

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. 优雅是唯一不会褪色的美. Even the most beautiful apperace would become bones and dusts. Even the most successful company in nowadays would be defeated and replaced by the up-and-coming ones in just tens of years. Not…

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. 如果你能好好地利用,你总有足够的时间. If you always feel that you don't have enough time to finish the work assigned to you, then it indicates that you didn't apply your time well. If you want to improve your effi…

Nothing happens unless first a dream. 一切始于梦想. I have a dream, one day I can be the expert in this field. I have a dream, one day I can be a multimillionaire and accumulate far enough wealth. I have a dream, one day I can get married and have two or m…

A man can't ride your back unless it is bent. 你的腰不弯,别人就不能骑在你的背上. Have you ever ride a horse, or ride a bicycle? When you were young, it may be somewhat difficult for you to get onto the horse or the bike. You always had to ask for help from your pare…

Rather than envy others, it is better to speed up their own pace. 与其羡慕他人,不如加快自己的脚步. The envy of others' success or happy life is not always a bad thing. Negative emotions, like envy, loneliness, and guilt, also have an important role to play in a hap…

No way is impossible to courage. 勇敢面前没有通不过的路. Without faith and courage, nothing is possible. With them, nothing is impossible. There are great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations, once you try to make them possible, you will…

No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. 巧妇难为无米之炊. One can't make bricks without straw. There is no building built without foundations. That is the same to our life, if we want to realize our dreams, we must prepare a lot to abtain a solid foundat…

Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance. 愤怒以愚蠢开始,以后悔告终. Learn to control your temper, don't lose your temper over trivial things, especially over the good intention provided by others. You will hurt them, and you may have no chance to repair…

Discontent is the first step in progress. 不知足是前进中的第一步. Several days ago, I wrote down a quote which has the same meaning as this one, and that quote goes as following: Only the mediocre are always at their best. In the other word, if you are content…