I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen to you, are not one and the same. (Colleen Hoover, Hopeless)

即使你經歷了些糟糕的事情，我也想要你記住你是誰。因為那些事不是你，它們只是發生在你身上罷了。你要明白，“你是誰”和“你經歷了什麼”不是一回事。

Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed. 

萬事都遵循自己的規律。 一個人必須耕種才能播種，必須播種才能收穫，而令人煩擾的東西必須像雜草一樣清除掉。

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. (George Orwell, 1984)

世上有真理，也有謬論. 假若你堅守真理 ,即使與全世界為敵，你也不是失去理智

尼古拉·普桑《維納斯與墨丘利》，約1626-1627年

維納斯與墨丘利的邊上，代表精神之愛的厄洛斯(Eros)和長著山羊腿、代表性愛的安特羅斯(Anteros)在摔跤。 厄洛斯看來戰勝了安特羅斯，墨丘利身邊的琉特琴、調色板、樂譜和節杖(雄辯的象徵)證實了對這一幕的解讀: 更高層次的精神滿足戰勝了塵世的 物質慾望。

同時，在源自希臘神話西方的文化體系中，維納斯（金星）和墨丘利（水星）的運行是和諧的，這種和諧的比例和和諧的音樂一樣，代表了世界秩序。 各種星像圖中，維納斯，墨丘利，又經常和樂器出現在一起。

Some people just can't let go of their own anxieties and obsessions, leaving them lost and disconnected from life. 

 有些人就是擺脫不了自己的焦慮和執念,  然後迷失自我, 與生活脫節. 

Adversity is like a strong wind. It… tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. (Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha)

逆境猶如勁風，它……扯掉我們身上的所有，卻扯不掉那堅不可摧的東西，讓我們看到真實的自己，而不只是我們可能的樣子。