• no matter which road you take, it will be both glorious and unbearable.

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• what a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be. (ellen burstyn)

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• 原生家庭不是一时的暴雨，而是一生的潮湿。the family of origin is not just a fleeting downpour, it’s a lifetime of dampness.

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• what a blessing to be tired in the pursuit of a challenge of your own choosing.

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• some things don’t return. not because they are lost, but because they were complete.

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• money is only a problem if the value is missing.

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• while others are congratulating themselves, i have to sit humbly at the foot of the cross and marvel that i’m saved at all. (charles spurgeon)

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• 鸟儿唱歌不是因为它们有了答案，而是因为它们有歌要唱。a bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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• P.S. Charlotte Brontë to Professor Constantin Héger—1844: “I wish I would write to you more cheerful letters, for when I read this over, I find it to be somewhat gloomy – but forgive me my dear master – do not be irritated at my sadness – according to the words of the Bible: ‘Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaketh’ and truly I find it difficult to be cheerful so long as I think I shall never see you more.

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• Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. (…) Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn’t come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.

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• remember that this is how i do my job, as jeff satur. remember me as someone who is happy everyday, who enjoys working, dedicated and conscious of all my work. (jeff satur)