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每一天，有那麼多人希望你把時間和精力留給他們。你很快就會發現，自己只是過著跟別人一樣的生活，或是別人希望你這麼過的生活。
Each day there are so many people trying to persuade you to spend your time and energy on them.
You can quickly find yourself living a life that's just a compilation of what everyone else is doing, or what people want you to be doing.

綠蠵龜從來不與海浪對抗。相反地，牠利用海浪。我之所以無法跟上牠，是因為無論海水打向哪裡，我始終在往前划。一開始，這還可以讓我跟上，有時甚至要放慢一點。但我越是向著迎面而來的海浪，就游得越累；所以當浪潮退去時，我已經沒力了。

每個人都受限於當下的經驗和知識。重點在於『當下』。我們活在有史以來最能夠接收世界各地的資訊、人群、文化和經驗的時代，如今，當我們試圖尋找如何實現存在的意義時，限制不在於外在環境，而是自我設限。

Sometimes you just don't know how ready you are for something filling.

Once a person knows why they're here, why they exist, their very reason for being alive——they'll want to fulfill that reason.