August 01st 2017 Week 31st Tuesday

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

知足是人生在世最大的幸事。

Being contented, means you are satisfied with something or you show satisfication with things as they are.

But it is not easy to feel contented with things, just for that our desires and our ambitions are always boundless.

When writing down this quote, I misspelled the word 'contented' into 'contended', just one alphabet, but makes the whole meaning totally different.

Rather than being contented, I would prefer to always contend for something, something that can be beneficial to others and something that can build the monument for my life.

Memories, even your most precious ones, would fade surprisingly quickly.

But I don't go along with that, the memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.

I must make them perfect and endurable, that is my responsibility and my mission.

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

伟人真正的纪念碑，不是由石头砌成的，而是由他们的行为铸就的。

From John L. Motley.

You never understood why we did this.

The audience knows the truth:

The world is simple.

It is miserable, solid all the way through.

But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

It was the look on their faces.

Now you are looking for the secret, but you won't find it because you are not really looking, you just pretend to be looking carefully.

You don't really want to work it out, you just wanted to be fooled.

Death comes to all, but great achievements and deeds can build a monument for you that shall endure until the sun grows cold.