1. A person’s value should depend on what he contributes, not what he obtains. ——Einstein

2. A common cause and a common struggle can give people the power to endure everything. ——Ostrovsky

3. Those who accomplished great things in ancient times not only had extraordinary talents, but also had perseverance. ——Su Shi

4. The ideal character should not only satisfy the material needs, but also satisfy the spiritual purpose. ——Hegel

5. Reading a good book is like talking to a noble person. ——Goethe

6. The essence of all past eras is contained in this book. ——Carlyle

7. Good books are the most precious treasures. ——Belinsky

8. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but if one of them is missing, it will be useless. ——Franklin

9. Reading is to build one’s own thoughts with the help of other people’s thoughts. ——Lu Bajin

10. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon

11. Do you want to be a happy person? I hope you learn to bear hardships first. ——Turgenev

12. Those who abandon time, time also abandons him. ——Shakespeare

13. Ordinary people only think about how to spend their time, but talented people try to use their time. ——Schopenhauer

14. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god. ——Du Fu

15. Perseverance when achieving success is more important than tenacity when suffering failure. ——Larochevko

16. Human life is short, but if you live it despicably, it will be too long. ——Shakespeare

17. Don’t read to death, or get into trouble with reading. ——Ye Shengtao

18. Don’t avoid troubles and difficulties, stand up and challenge them, and then overcome them. ——Daisaku Ikeda

19. Truth is the lifeblood of life and the foundation of all values. ——Dreiser

Twenty. Try to love someone. If you pay, you may not get anything; if you don’t pay, you won’t get anything. Don’t expect miracles.