1. What many people call maturity is merely being worn down by customs, becoming worldly and pragmatic. That's not maturity, but premature spiritual aging and the demise of individuality. True maturity should be the formation of a unique personality, the discovery of the authentic self, and spiritual fruition and harvest. — *The Soul Can Only Walk Alone*
2. I am naturally unsuited for socializing. In most situations, I either find the other person boring or I fear they will find me boring. But I neither want to endure their boredom nor exert myself to appear interesting; both are too tiring. I am most relaxed when I am alone because I don't find myself boring, and even if I am, I bear it myself, without burdening others or feeling uneasy. — *Scraps of Paper in the Wind*3. Being understood is fortunate, but not being understood is not necessarily unfortunate. A person who completely entrusts their value to the understanding of others often has no value at all. — *Man and Eternity*
4. Everyone has eyes open, but that doesn't mean everyone is seeing the world. Many people hardly use their own eyes to see; they only listen to what others say, and the world they see is always what others describe.
—From *Reflections on Life*
5- Don't care too much about some people; the more you care, the more humble you become. —Zhou Guoping
6- I always believe that all noble emotions are ashamed to be expressed, and all profound experiences are clumsy
in words. 7- There are three states of being alone. First, feeling anxious, confused, and listless, desperately trying to escape loneliness. Second, gradually becoming accustomed to loneliness, settling down, establishing order in life, and using reading, writing, or other activities to dispel loneliness. Third, loneliness itself becomes a poetic soil, an opportunity for creation, inducing profound thoughts and experiences about existence, life, and self.
—From *Solitude is a Skill*
8- If you want something too much, you will see it as very large, even so large that it becomes your whole world, occupying all your thoughts. My advice is that, in the end, whether you get it or not, you must step back in time and see its true place in the whole world, that is, its insignificance in infinite space and time. In this way, you will not be overjoyed if you get it, nor will you be heartbroken if you don't. —On Detachment
9- Life is purely accidental, therefore every life clings to another, depending on each other for survival, traveling together. —Love and Loneliness
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Life is purely accidental, therefore every life does not belong to another, like a gust of wind, unburdened.
11- The lowest state of life is ordinariness, the next is transcendence, and the highest is returning to simplicity in ordinariness.
12- Once a person knows what they truly want and finds the life most suitable for them, all external temptations and excitements become irrelevant. Your body may travel the world as much as possible, your emotions may rise and fall in the mundane world, but the key is that your spirit must have a tranquil core. With this core, you can become the master of your traveling body and fluctuating emotions. —Only One Life
13- The emotions that truly move people are always simple and unadorned; they are silent, unassuming, and deeply buried. …Silence has a special power; when all the noise subsides, it continues to work, penetrating visible or invisible barriers, reaching the deepest part of the heart. —"Man and Eternity"
14- The reason why affectation is terrible is that it is mediocrity pretending to be unique, and therefore dishonest mediocrity.
—"Youth Is Not Equal to Literature"
15- Time flies, the world is noisy, and I must be vigilant. It is not easy to maintain a childlike innocence and a leisurely mind on the journey of life. If one day I am only buried in the various affairs of life and no longer have the interest to look out the window at the scenery along the way and listen to the music in my heart, then I will truly be old and vulgar, and I will have failed this beautiful journey of life.
—"Outside the Car Window"
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Extroverted people easily gain many friends, but true friends are always few. Introverts are lonely
, but once they gain friends, they are often genuine.
—"Man and Eternity"
17- A truly strong person must be tolerant, because he is rich enough. Jealousy is a quality of the weak. —"Man and Eternity"
18- Love is heartache without reason and tolerance without preconditions.
—"Settling the Heart"
19- Those who have never experienced heartbreak do not understand love; those who have never suffered setbacks do not understand life. —"Man and Eternity"
20- The bored are self-loathing, the lonely are self-pitying, the solitary are self-sufficient. Mediocre people are bored, geniuses are lonely; everyone has moments of loneliness.
—"Man and Eternity"
21- We walk side by side in the darkness, on our own pilgrimages, unable to know if we are heading towards the same holy place, because we cannot explain to others, or even to ourselves, what that holy place truly is. However, the same pilgrimage fervor makes us believe that perhaps the same holy place exists. As beings with souls, the greatness and tragedy of humanity lie precisely in this. —"The Soul Can Only Walk Alone"
22- Writing has never been about influencing the world, but merely about settling oneself. —"Each Person's Pilgrimage"
23- Solitude is indeed a test; it can measure the depth of a person's soul, and reveal their true feelings for themselves. I dare say that a person who doesn't even love themselves will not be of much value to others, and cannot have high-quality social interactions. The quality of all interactions depends on the quality of the interactors themselves. Only between two souls that are rich and fulfilled can there be truly moving love and friendship.
24- There is one thing in the world more loyal to you than anything else: your experiences, the feelings and thoughts you have within them. They belong solely to you, cannot be transferred to anyone else, and if you cherish them, they will be your most reliable wealth, which no one can take away. However, if you do not cherish them, they will be lost with the passing years and cannot be found anywhere in the world.
— *Settling the Heart*
25- A young heart should not be as still as water, without ripples. The world belongs to the young; taking advantage of youth to venture into the vast world is a necessary
experience in life. — *Remember the Way Home*
26- If you feel a sense of alienation, it should be because you have the desire to communicate. You will not feel alienation towards those you have never thought of communicating with. — *Love and Loneliness*
27- There are two kinds of people: those with a past and those without. Those with a past love life and deeply regret the passage of time, thus cherishing a special kind of love, treasuring all their experiences in the granary of their hearts. Those without a past are indifferent to the passage of time; this numbness makes them disregard all things, and everything they experience is like fleeting smoke, scattered by the wind, leaving nothing behind.
— *The Distance of Watching*
28- No matter how short life is, we should live with a smile, enjoy life with a smile, suffer with a smile, and finally die with a smile, only then will we not have lived in vain.
— *Nietzsche: At the Turning Point of the Century*
29- Love often empties a person, leaving only an empty shell, and then departs. Therefore, wise people are always wary of love, thinking thrice before acting, or even simply not acting at all. — *Man and Eternity*
30. Rousseau said, "Nature shaped me, then broke the mold." This sounds arrogant, but it applies to everyone. Unfortunately, most people can't bear the loss of their mold, so they reshape themselves using a common mold, resulting in everyone becoming so similar.
— *I'd Rather Be Myself*
31. Only what you're willing to die for can you truly live for. — *Kindness, Abundance, Nobility*
32. A person whose soul has awakened will no longer mock or hurt others, because they know that others are merely the most sensitive version of themselves in another body.
— *Kindness, Abundance, Nobility*
33. I would gladly befriend an artist, listen to him talk about his work, complain, and ramble. But I would never marry him. Reading an artist's work is a pleasure, but living with an artist is suffering. Most artists' love affairs end unhappily, and the responsibility never lies with the woman. He has hell in his heart, and no one can lead him to heaven.
— *Man and Eternity*
34. The world is my food. Humans spend only a small amount of time eating, and most of their time digesting. Solitude is my way of digesting the world.
— *Man and Eternity*
35- All the extraordinary things in the world eventually return to the ordinary, and their value is measured by ordinary life. Greatness, brilliance, and success are nothing; only by truly
living an ordinary life well can life be fulfilling. — *Settling the Heart*
36- What is the purpose of reading? If we exclude the practical purpose of scholarship, reading is about absorbing nourishment and enriching oneself. I feel that the most enjoyable time of reading is when you suddenly discover, "I also have this thought." The happiest time is when something you already possessed but were unaware of is awakened.
37- Don't tell me: suffering purifies the soul, tragedy elevates the spirit. Silently, suffering dulls countless sensitive hearts, and tragedy destroys countless disillusioned heroes. Why use the vividness of the stage to cover up the silent reality of life! …
— *Niu Niu*
38- Wise people laugh at happiness as a dream, fools seek happiness in dreams, and neither acknowledges the existence of happiness in reality. It seems that to achieve true happiness, one must be neither too clever nor too foolish. This state between cleverness and foolishness is called the wisdom of life.
39- Even if two people love each other, their souls cannot walk together. The most moving love in the world is merely the deepest call and response between two solitary souls. — *The Soul Can Only Walk Alone*
40- Doubt stems from excessive seriousness. Those who are careless never doubt, but they also have no faith. Of course, this does not prevent them from strangling doubters in the name of faith. — *Man and Eternity*
41- Writing should primarily be based on one's own satisfaction. On the one hand, this is a very low standard—not comparing oneself to others, but simply being satisfied. On the other hand, this is a very high standard—even if others praise it, it's still unacceptable if one is not satisfied.
42- People only need to conceal or lie when facing others. Those who deceive themselves are not facing their true selves, but rather the role they play in front of others. — *Inner Composure*
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