Quote of Today:
Leave all the outsides outside. (quoted from a film)
Comment: How to leave all the outsides outside? this is the question.
Modern world is a competitive world, 'winner takes all' becomes the rule. No matter whether it is corrrect or not, this is the reality that the law of jungle does work.
Living in such a cruel world, how to keep your heart calm and peaceful ? It depends on how you gaze at life and what you expect from life. Too ambitious is the root of being unhappy,just leave your ambition (ie. all the outsides) alone, enjoy your iner-life, 'luxurious' will kill you in no time .
Oh, there is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
-Oscar Wilde - “An Ideal Husband”
Comment: "There is nothing permanent except change." Nowadays things are very different from the days of Oscar Wilde-to be a modern husband is nothing as that in the past who was the master of the household, the husband today need to be both bread earner, as well as a best cook, with the feminist wife yelling at him all the time.
OMG, Time has really changed !
“Mammon: which I think, after all, is only the mass-will of people, wanting money and hating life”
-<Lady Chatterley’s Lover>
Comment:Money can only satisfy the vanity of people, while vanity is never satisfied permanently . Since money is a symble or icon of power,for those who have already obtained enough income or wealth to survive, the only use of money beyond survival is just for the sake of showing off, just like the feathers of the colorful peacock. Yet success in makeing money is not always a good criterion in success of life,because in many cases, "Money talks, bullshit walks."
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
-Abraham Lincoln
Comment: If you can deceive all the people all the time, you are a genius, but no one in this world is able to do so, hence there is no person can say he/she is a genius with this regard. However, if someone never tells a lie in all his/her life, he/she must be an idiot.
”All people are equal. Hence, if you are less equal than the others, it's your own fault. “
Comment: This is the reality of the world, just like whenever there is anything wrong, everyone intends to shift his/her own responsibility onto others' shoulder.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-Abraham Lincoln
Comment: The key point is how to find the right place?
“有心栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭。”
(A watched flower never blooms, but an untended willow grows)
We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it .
-Ken Robinson
Comment: Modern education system serves for the needs of 'MASS PRODUCTION', does an assembling production line needs 'creativity'? The answer is crystal clear, consequently "A students teach, B students work for the C students.", because C students are less educated , therefore more creative.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
-Oscar Wilde-“An Ideal Husband”
Comment: Just like courtesy, it is smiply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally want to keep distance with.
