My Mottos
Here I’d like to share a few mottos of mine. It actually had been a long time that motto-like words often jump out of my brain randomly. In the summer of 2008, I decided to start this journy of noting down such words when they came across. The list is expected to expand as my life moves on.
- Thinking feels like climbing. Climbing has a top, while thinking does not.
- Life is a trial; all the trials are to make a life.
- Reading is a journey, journey is to read.
- Between reality and dream there is no gap but hard work.
- Three activities to make a person grow: Do, Read, and Think. None of the three can be absent.
- Three “takes” of the criteria for a “man”: 1. Take responsibility; 2. Take pressure; 3. Take risk
- If life is a game of chess, the insurmountable adversary will be yourself.
- Giving up self is the last way to find self back.
- Do extraordinary things, but be an ordinary person.
- Since the world is something in our eyes, you can change the world by changing your eyes.
- When you look at yourself as a water drop, your mind becomes the ocean that contains enormous water drops.
- Being loved is fortunate, but being able to love is even more fortunate.
- Life is hardly perfect. Don’t expect a perfect life in the real world, but a perfect atman in heart.
- We don’t have to do everything, but we have to do what we have promised.
- Ideal persists where reality is not surpassed.
- Gaining should be motivated by the desire to give, while the activities to give should not be purposed for gaining.
- Don’t be sad about what you fail to achieve, but be happy about what you have achieved. Don’t give up at your failure, and also never stop at your success.
- I don’t know whether I can make it, but I know I can try it.
- Answering a question is actually to search a rational boundary that makes the question answerable.
- In a trouble, the inept complain, the weak bear, while the able change.
(to be continued…)