Excerpts from famous quotes from reading notes include:

1. An ideal character should not only satisfy material needs, but also satisfy spiritual interests. ——Hegel

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

3. Ordinary people only think about how to spend their time, while talented people try to make use of their time. ——Schopenhauer

4. Friendship is the union of souls. This union can be divorced. It is a tacit contract between two sensitive and upright people. ——Voltaire

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