Our life is what our thoughts make it. 我们的思想成就了我们的生活. The mind is everything. What you think, you become. And whatever you can do, or whatever you dream you can, begin it, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it. But sometimes, you don't a…

Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud. 博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲. Humility is not equal with being passive, submissive or insecure, instead, humility means being confident and being competent. Humble people always seek to self-actualize by helping themse…

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. 那是我的原则,要是你不喜欢......那我还有其他原则. From Groucho Marx. Please hold on to your principles, if you think they are right. But sometimes, you can be more flexible so that you can stick…

It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another. 强者自救,圣者渡人. When you are not strong enough to save others, just concentrate on self-improvements and self-promotion. For many of us, the best thing we can do to save others is to…

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…

Receive without conceit, release without struggle. 接受时,不狂妄:放手时,不犹豫. How to understand this quote? Doesn't it mean that when we are given some gifts from others, we shouldn't take them for granted, we shouldn't ask for more, when we plan to let someth…

Love is blind, hard to find, difficult to get, and impossible to forget. 爱,很盲目,很难找,很难得,很难忘. It is almost impossible to find love, sincere love if we don't know ourselves, because we may not know who is our Mr. Right among those people me meet in our…

Don't cry for what is lost. Smile for what still remains. 别为失去的哭泣,为还留在你身边的一切微笑吧. I have been told that if crying for missing the sun, we may miss the chance to see the beautiful stars as well. Life would never give us the second time to get something…

Love does not dominate, it culitvates. 爱不是羁绊,而是成就. Love should not wipe out everything you are, love should not overpower you in a negative way and make you feel uncomfortable. Instead, it should bring out something good to you. Love requires action,…

We are all resigned to death: it is life we aren't resigned to. 我们可以屈从于死神,但我们却不能让生活任意摆布. Of all the wonderful gifts that we have been given, one of the greatest is freedom. As much as we may deny it, we are free in our life. That is, we are free in w…

Full of luck, health and cheer. We wish you a Happy Chinese New Year! 春节快乐,万事如意! From Shanbay. Today is the Chinese New Year of 2018. Wish every of us a Happy New Year. We will open a new book today, we will forget all our worries today. A new year a…

Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them. 不要着急,最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现. Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. 我们总是要把逆境转换为顺境. Both in the USA and China, a great number of people are still feeling frustrated with…

And if you really want to see what people are, all you have to do is to look. 想真正了解他人,只需要用心看. From Wonder. At least once in our life someone would do something that make us say: Why did they do that? How could they do that? Why did they make such stu…

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. 要做到真正的伟大,你必须能够让周围的人变得伟大. From Mark Twain. We all want to be liked, loved and happy, some people make us feel valued, some people make us feel special,…

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. 要敢于冒险,你的经历是无可替代的. From Paulo Coelho. Each step may be a challenge. Each day can become a joy. No one can destroy an unstoppable spirit. The worst and the best is yet to come. To create awarenes…

Life is too short to miss out anything; try to take it slowly. 生命短暂,放慢脚步,别错过任何沿途的风景. From Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Just because life is too short, just because I don't intend to miss anything, I have to increase my pace, otherwise I would be left fu…

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. 限制你的只有你自己筑起的墙. From Andrew Murphy. Let's repeat this again and again: We are confined only by the walls we build ourselves. There are so many people, like me, always believe they ae trapped in si…

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…

Better later than never. 亡羊补牢,时犹未晚. Time and again all of us are told to complete the tasks assigned to us on time and being lazy most of us would fail to do any assigned work on time, because the only result of procrsatination is that we may complet…

Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同. If great minds really did think alike, then we would live in an unreal world which is just a Dstopia. Given that our world is so varied, so I think the great minds don't think alike, though there might be only one tru…

A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半. We can't finish anything if we don't start, sometimes getting started might be the hardest part of the whole process. Get a good start on a project and the rest of it may fall into their own places naturall…

LIfe is about making an impact, not making an income. 生命在于影响他人,而非赚钱糊口. From Kevin Kruse. You probably argue that one must make an income first, then if he has some extra power while earning a not bad life, he can try to pursue some impacts on the wor…

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. 人生一大乐事莫过去早上醒来可以赖赖床. From Samuel Johnson. Of course it is one of the happiest things, especially when you don't have to worry about your life. But if there are too…

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. 迷失过方向,才能找到方向. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. By Henry David Thoreau. Sometimes it seems everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. Graduated from college with ugly a…

You are your greatest asset. 你就是你自己最大的资本. For most of us, there are few things that we can count on but ourselves. If we lose confidence in our own life, in our own abilities, we may never win trusts from others. That means the intrinsic motivation m…

One man's fault is another man's lesson. 前车之覆,后车之鉴. We make mistakes every day, large or small, failures or faux pas. But failure and mistakes still don't feel like an awesome learing opportunity. I know it is my shortcomings that make me unique and…

Grasp all, lose all. 欲尽得,必尽失. Not to be greedy and not to try to get everything. Our time, energy and wisdom are all limited, if we want too much, we probably get nothing eventually, so why not hold our own in our real inclination, and place single-m…

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. 头脑聪明还不够,重要的是好好运用. From Rene Descartes. My colleagues have always brought me some surprises these days, and their talented skills and eloquence have made some indelible impression…

Every one of us want to ameliorate our own condition. You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. 纠正只能弥补小错,预防却能杜绝大错. From Brock Chisholm. Self-discipline can help us prevent wholesale, and in the best case we wouldn't have to worry about…