fortitude & resilient

Definitions of fortitude:

strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

Definitions of resilient:

recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like

三言兩語

兩個人能夠走在一起，是一種難以解釋的緣分，今天快樂已經很足夠。如果緣分盡了，你怎樣維繫也只能分開。

Quote from 珍珠 by 黃宇詩

年少的自負

成長的明證，是學會抹走年少的自負。

達摩祖師說，大智，是窮極萬物深妙之理﹔大智若愚，是虛懷，是一種經過歷練之後的修養。

雖然洞悉一切，但永遠不當尖酸的批評者。

明報新聞網 - 副刊

Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote

"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote, as quoted by Linus W.L. Cheung during his speech during the HKU Alumni Association.

Inspirational comeback: James Blakes

Then in 2004 he had the year from Hell. He ran into a tennis net post and broke his neck. Then he got a shingles virus in his face that paralyzed it on one side. Then his dad died.

There was some doubt that Blake would ever play tennis again. He watched the major tournaments from his couch and wondered about his future. In time, his body recovered, and he felt that he had been given a second chance. He grabbed it by the neck.

I wanted Blake to win that match, yet somehow, by losing he found perfection.

quoted from the Dilbert Blog post titled "Winning"

Go on with your life

Stephen Toope, the new president of UBC, said at the time of the murders of his parents by a trio of teenage thugs,

My faith was what allowed me to go on with my life. Evil exists and we can't always prevent it. But I never wanted to be a victim. Some people choose to do that by working proactively for victims. But I chose to go on with my life

Solving one problem by creating a bigger problem

Often, people will not even realize that their solution to a problem merely replaces it with another problem.

So be careful when you suggest a solution that has a high activation energy.

The Old New Thing : Solving one problem by creating a bigger problem

情

其實為甚麼，我們在做任何事情之前，都不願意花時間去考慮一下後果，計算一下將會有甚麼的牽連，尤其做一些事情是會影響到家人的，就要好好地想想，不要傷害了對方之後，才說關心對方的話。對方聽來，可能會覺得更加心痛、心寒，因為這陰影可能將會一輩子都揮之不去的。

quote from 兄弟情 by 陳松伶