wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, hope and despair. a life without despair is a life without hope.

戒酒，不是不沾就是戒了，而是沾了不醉，才叫戒。

"Some wounds do not close. I have many such. One just walks around with them, and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood."

你这不叫缺，你这叫穷。

"I will need to act in a way that meets with the edges of my morality."