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1. Remember what needs to be remembered, and forget what needs to be forgotten. Change what can be changed, and accept what cannot. Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten. Alter what is changeable, and accept what is immutable. 2. The only things that can wash away everything are tears and time; let time pass over emotions – the longer it goes by, the weaker the conflicts become, just like tea that continues to dilute over time. Apart from tears, only time can wear everything away. As emotions are processed by time, conflicts will be resolved over time, just like a cup of tea that gradually becomes diluted. 3. Complaints are humanity’s greatest offering to heaven, and they constitute the most sincere part of human prayers. Complaints are the greatest offerings that God receives from humans, as well as the most sincere prayers that humans can offer to God. 4. The price of wisdom is contradiction. This is life playing a joke on one’s outlook on life. Wisdom seems to be contradictory to itself, and this is a trick that life plays on the philosophy of life. 5. Girls in the world always think of themselves as proud princesses (with a few extremely ugly and a few extremely intelligent girls being exceptions). Girls always see themselves as proud princesses, with the exception of a small number of those who are either extremely ugly or exceptionally smart. 6. If an enemy makes you angry, it means you’re not yet confident enough to defeat him. It can be inferred that you lack confidence in a victory over your rivals from the fact that you’re irritable against them. 7. If a friend makes you angry, it means you still care about his friendship. From that, if you get angry with your friends, we can conclude that you still care about the friendship between you. 8. Linghu Chong said, “There are some things we simply cannot control; all we can do is control ourselves.” ” But what is he anyway! “There are things beyond our control, so we must take control of ourselves,” said Linghu Chong, a well-known character in a Chinese novel about people skilled in martial arts. But who is he, exactly? I don’t know which of my actions are right and which are wrong; I won’t know until I die old. So all I can do now is to do my best in everything and then wait to die of old age. Only upon my natural death can I determine which of the things I have done were right or wrong; so now I must strive to do well in everything, and then wait to die a natural death. 10. Perhaps some people are vile, and some people are despicable. And when I put myself in his shoes and imagined it, I realized that he was even more pitiable than I was. So please forgive everyone you have met, good people or bad. Some may be wicked, and some may be despicable. Only when I put myself in their position did I realize that they are more miserable than I am. So forgive everyone you have met, no matter what kind of people they are. 11. The fish said to the water, “You can’t see my tears, because I’m in the water.” Water says I can feel your tears, because you are in my heart. ““You can’t see my tears because I’m in the water,” said the fish to the water. “But I can feel your tears because you’re in me,” replied the water. 12. Happiness needs sorrow as a companion; after the rain, there must be sunshine. If it rains again after the rain, if sorrow persists after sorrow, let us face these further separations with composure. Smile as you search for a version of yourself that can never appear! Happiness is accompanied by sorrow, and the weather clears after the rain as well. If rain continues to fall after rain, and sorrow persists after sorrow, then accept those goodbyes with ease, and turn to smile while searching for the self that will never show up. 13. Death reveals everything to us, just like the results announced after an exam; although we realize this suddenly, it’s already too late! Just as the results of an exam make us aware of things, death makes us realize everything—by then, it’s too late to change anything. 14. When you are born, you cry while those around you smile; when you die, you smile while those around you cry! When you were born, you were crying but the onlookers were smiling; when you pass away, you are smiling but the onlookers are crying. 15. Before marriage, men think there are few women suitable for them; after marriage, they think there are many such women. One might think that few women were suitable for him before he got married, but the situation is different once he is married. 16. Among millions of people, you meet the one you meet; in the endless expanse of time, neither earlier nor later, but just at the right moment. Among thousands of people, you meet those you’ve met before. Over thousands of years, within the vast expanse of time, you happen to meet them – neither earlier nor any later than necessary. 17. Everyone possesses potential energy; it’s just easy for that energy to be obscured by habits, blurred by time, and worn away by laziness. Everyone has an inherent ability (power or capacity?), which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness (or inertia?). Life is only a few decades long – don’t leave any regrets behind. Laugh when you want to laugh, cry when you want to cry; love when it’s time to love. There’s no need to suppress yourself needlessly. Make sure you have never had any regrets in your life, which lasts only a few decades. Laugh or cry as you wish; it’s pointless to oppress yourself. 19. Words from \"Peaceful Times\": It’s always painful when fantasies meet reality. Either you are overwhelmed by pain, or you trample it under your feet. When our dreams come into conflict with reality, pain always arises. Either we crush that pain or it will crush us. 20. True love doesn’t depend on spectacle, showmanship, prosperity, or loud declarations. True love is that which does not seek busyness, extravagance, luxury, nor nonsense. 21. In life, people keep coming in and going out. Thus, what was seen becomes unseen; what was remembered is forgotten. In life, there is constant gaining and losing. Thus, the invisible became visible; what was forgotten was remembered. However, just because something is invisible, does that mean it doesn’t exist? And just because something is remembered, does that mean it will never disappear? There are always people coming into or leaving your life around the clock; as a result, you might lose sight of those who are visible and forget those who are remembered. There are gains and losses in life, so you might come to notice those who are invisible and remember those who have been forgotten. Yet, isn’t what is invisible still real? Will what is remembered remain forever? 22. We indeed live a difficult life, having to endure various external pressures as well as dealing with the confusions within our own hearts. In times of struggle, if someone gives you a look of understanding, you feel a warmth in life; perhaps just a brief glance is enough to inspire me greatly. It’s true that we’ve led a difficult life, as we not only have to endure various external pressures but also face internal struggles. You would be touched by the warmth of life if someone gave you a understanding look during your tough times; even just a glance can move and inspire you. 23. I don’t worry about whether I’ll succeed; since I’ve chosen a distant goal, I just keep moving forward through wind and rain. I don’t think about whether cold winds and rain will hit me from behind; since my goal is the horizon, all that remains for the world to see is my back. I wouldn’t care about success or failure, for I will keep striving forward as long as I am destined to go on this journey. I wouldn’t care about the difficulties around me, for all that I can leave behind on this earth is merely their view of my back, as I continue to move forward. 24. Regret is an emotion that drains one’s energy; it is a greater loss than any loss, and a bigger mistake than any error. So, do not feel regret. Penitence is something that weakens our spirit, causing a greater loss than the loss itself and leading to bigger mistakes than the mistakes themselves; therefore, never regret.