The good seaman is known in bad weather. 惊涛骇浪,方显英雄本色. As we all know, the true worth of a person is only really apparent when difficult times stretch the  to the limit. Hard times bring forth heroes and heroes end hard times. So, if you think yoursel…

Confine yourself to the present. 着眼当下. The morning wind spreads its fresh smell, we should get up and take that in, that wind lets us live, breathe, before it's gone. Sometimes we got stuck in the past, and sometimes we only live for the future, but…

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. 乐于工作才能有完美表现. From Aristole. Do you want promotion? Do you want to get some raise in paycheck? If you want, you should improve your performace in your work, make it perfect, or at least put it at a leve…

You cannot change the circumstances but you can change yourself. 既然改变不了环境,那就改变自己. From Jim Rohn. Recently I am getting more and more dissatisfied with the allocation of resources in my department. It seems there are huge differences about the goals o…

Summertime is always the best of what might be. 万物最美的一面,总在夏季展现. From Charles Bowden. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. It was a song, it was a season. And I wondered if that sea…

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 拥有益友.良书和一颗宁静的内心:这就是理想的生活. From Mark Twain. An ideal day comes in a variety of ways. Today is one of the odd ones, it is cool and comfortable. In the morning I went to the hosp…

Half is worse than none at all. 一知半解比一无所知更痛苦. From Westworld. If we go looking for the truth, get the whole thing, for half is worse than none at all. How to understand it? If half is really worse than none at all, how about stopping pursuing things…

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. 不要为成功而努力,要为做一个有价值的人而努力. Success is external, value is internal. Success and value are related, but value may be more important, because a man of value must be a man of succes…

What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 没有了目的,生活便暗淡无光. We all have dreams about our future, we all have expectations of what we are doing. Sometimes, those dreams, those expectations might be the only things that give us the strength and believ…

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…