1. Growth is a greater mystery than death. We all understand failure, and all of our lives include failure and death; but the joys and fears of growth are difficult to identify, and even successful people hesitate before they begin to describe them.

——[American] Mailer Norman: "Advertising Myself"

2. About life. In general, there is only one rule: youth is a mistake, adulthood is a struggle, old age is a regret.

——[English] Ben Disraeli

3. Life is just a walking shadow, a poor actor gesticulating on the stage, appearing for a moment. , and quietly retreated in silence.

——[English] Shakespeare: "Macbeth"

4. Human beings, when the soul understands its mission, you can realize what you feel in this waking moment. Feeling happy? In this moment all that you have gained on the glorious thorny road is healed, restored to health, strength, and joy; the noise becomes harmony; one sees the mercy of God in a man and through him spread to the public.

——[Denmark] Hans Christian Andersen: "The Thorny Road of Glory"

5. Life is always unreasonable and often full of pain, but in the final analysis it is still interesting.

——[American] Mencken, quoted from the "Trenton Sunday Times"

6. Growth is a greater mystery than death. Failure is understandable to each of us, and includes failure and death in each of our lives; but the joys and fears of growth are difficult to identify, and even successful people hesitate before beginning to describe them.

——[American] Mailer Norman: "Advertising Myself"

7. The vanity and glitz in human life is like a river, with the waves behind pushing the waves ahead. It keeps passing away and coming again.

——[English] Pope: "Miscellaneous Feelings"

8. I want to seize fate by the throat. It will never bring me to complete submission—oh! How beautiful it would be to live life a thousand times!

——[Germany] Beethoven, quoted from "The Biography of Beethoven"

9. Life is an endless, restless, ruthless battle. Anyone who deserves to be called a human must fight against invisible enemies all the time.

——[French] Romain Rolland: "Johan Christophe"

10. Life is always unreasonable and often full of pain, but in the final analysis it is still Very interesting.

——[American] Mencken, quoted from the "Trenton Sunday Times"

11. Life is hard. For those who are unwilling to accept mediocrity, it is a day-to-day struggle, which is often tragic, without glory, without happiness, and is fought in loneliness and silence.

——[France] Romain Rolland: "The Biography of Beethoven"

12. Life is either a tragedy or a comedy. People perish in tragedy, but bond in comedy.

——[Denmark] Andersen: "The Gatekeeper's Son"

13. All life is consumed between desire and the achievement of desire.

——[Germany] Schopenhauer: "The Pain Between Will and Life"

14. I flew past various stations on the express train, even the names of the stations I couldn't even recognize it, and almost the entire journey I couldn't figure out where I was between the starting point and the ending point. Be careful, I thought, not to live like this in life.

——[Germany] Strimatter: "Random Thoughts"

15. Life is very difficult. It is painful for a baby to take its first breath, and it is also painful for an old man to take his last breath. Life is full of misfortune and pain; but when he walks towards the arms of death, he is still very reluctant and bumpy. Jittering, stumbling, looking back again and again, struggling to the end.

——[Beauty] Jack London: "The Fortitude of Woman"