Cherie

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.”
― Yiyun Li

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“我知道
我是为了当下的生命体验而来
在每一个当下，我唯一要做的
就是完全地允许、充分地经历、彻底地体验、尽情地享受
静静地看着，只是看着
然后，允许一切发生”
― Li Mengji, Allow Everything to Happen (Live a Relaxed Life)