Stephanie

“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“A great tree like this didn’t have branches that quivered like flowers, stirring affection in people’s hearts, nor did it sway with the wind like strings of vines, seductive and enticing.

He only stood there in silence and severity, very steady and dependable, blocking wind and rain for the passersby without a word, allowing those under the tree to hide from the scorching sun.

Perhaps it was because he’d grown too tall, too luxuriant, that people had to intentionally look up before they’d discover——Ah, so this gentle shade had been bestowed by him.

But all those travelers going to and fro, not one of them had looked up, and not one of them had ever noticed him.
After all, people’s lines of sight were habitually aimed at places lower than themselves, or at eye level at most.”
― 肉包不吃肉, 二哈和他的白貓師尊

“It’s as though our brains are configured to make a certain number of decisions per day and once we reach that limit, we can’t make any more, regardless of how important they are.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans