Quotes

There is one thing that young people often don’t understand: words are not useful just because you spoke them aloud, you have to see if the person you speak to is actually willing to listen or not.

——Ma Boyong, author

年輕人總是不懂一個道理：話不是說出來就有用，而要看聽話的人愿不愿意聽。

——作家馬伯庸

Seeing that suffering has pushed me to the cliff’s edge, let me just sit down on the edge.While I’m at it, I can watch the flowing mountain mist down below and sing a song for you.

——Shi Tiesheng, author

苦難既然把我推到了懸崖的邊緣，那么就讓我在這懸崖的邊緣坐下來，順便看看懸崖下的流嵐霧靄，唱支歌給你聽。

——作家史鐵生

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

——Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer

每個人都想住在山頂，但所有的快樂及成長都是在登山時產生的。

——美國資深媒體人安迪·魯尼

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

——Oscar Wilde, Irish writer

一婚是想象力戰勝智力，二婚是希望戰勝經驗。

——愛爾蘭作家王爾德

Everyone is willing to blindly follow others, as if the safest thing in the world is to let oneself disappear into the “majority.”

——Winter Pastureby Li Juan

大家都愿意盲從，好像世界上最安全的事就是讓自己消失在“多數”之中。

——李娟《冬牧場》