If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. 独处时的微笑,才是发自内心的. Recently I found I seldom smiled when I was alone. Most often I felt depressed and frustrated due to the obstacles I met both in life and work. And I become more and more pe…

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. 人生只有一次,但如果活对了,一次也就够了. Maybe I am going to have to do a lot more work on the project before it is presentable. A lot of people can finish their work effortlessly, but it is so stiff for me to…

Had I not seen the sun, I could have borne the shade. 我本可以忍受黑暗,如果我不曾见过阳光. A poem by Emily Dickinson, and the full text follows: Had I not seen the sun I could have borne the shade But light a newer wilderness My wilderness had made Aha, if just readi…

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. 我们都生活在阴沟里,但仍有人仰望星空. In the past most of us had learned in our historical textbooks that history is created by the public, not just by those elites. But as we gradually grew up, we hav…

Happiness takes no account of time. 幸福不觉光阴过. Do you know the theory of relativity? If you know about that, you may know one story about Einstein, how did he explain his theory to those who were totally ignorant about that? He said in a funny way: Yea…

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. 人生如画,落笔无悔. Yesterday I watched a film from Japan, After the Storm, which told a story about a middleaged man. He is a unsuccessful novelist and divorced his wife, because he was indulged in gambling. But…

A good heart is better than all the brains in the world. 聪明绝顶,不如宅心仁厚. A good heart can be useful to this world, at least a good-hearted person seldom does harm to the society. That can be a good explaination for why we often makes friends with some g…

Today is a perfect day to start living your dream. 实现梦想,莫如当下. Miracles may happen every day. If you choose to live your dream and strive for it, then it may be a perfect day. Sometimes, we feel we have tried our best but we still failed, yes, man pro…

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. 问题不是休止符,而是引向标. It is ture during our explorations we often have to face problems, difficulities and dangers, sometimes even the most perilous ones and seemingly insurmountable. If we give up, we may l…

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself. 欲寻佳侣,先觅本心. You may fail to find your soul mate if you can't find yourself. Because only if you have found yourself, that is, you know truly who you are, you know truly what you want, then you m…