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In the future, you will definitely thank yourself for your hard work now. 将来的你,一定会感谢现在拼命的自己。

Answered: Oct 26, 2020

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Study is like sailing, either you keep forging ahead, or you keep falling behind. 学如逆水行舟,不进则退。

Answered: Oct 10, 2020

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Rise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes flowers grow, not thunder.
言贵于思,而非其声。恰似雷霆万钧,不敌十里甘霖

Answered: Nov 14, 2020

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万物皆有裂痕,那是光照进来的地方

Answered: Oct 13, 2020

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Late fruits keep well. 大器晚成

Answered: Oct 29, 2020

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My favorite Chinese proverb is “月盈则亏,晦则明”, literally, when the moon is fullest it begins to wane, when it is darkest it begins to grow. There is a calm wisdom in this old saying that impressed me when I heard it first from a monk of a Buddhist monastery in China. It has often, helped me to retain a good measure of equanimity under stress and hardship as well as when some unexpected success or good luck might have made me too exuberant. There is hope and consolation in the sure knowledge that even the darkest hours of pains and troubles won’t last: but also a warning against overrating the passing glories of wealth, power and great good fortune. A warning and a hope, not only for the individual, but also for governments, nations and brief summing up of all that history and human experience can tell us. And beyond all that we might hear in it an echo of the law and order that holds our universe in safe balance.

Answered: March 23, 2020

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内心淡然,无所求也要奋斗人生。

Answered: Oct 13, 2020

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人之为学,不可自大,也不可自小。Literally, it's means when someone study who cannot be ego either abject, and that's the best attitude to achieve  knowledge.

Answered: Oct 06, 2020

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Do unto others as you would be done

Answered: Sept 21, 2020

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胜人者有力自胜者强。I think It's mean that your enemy is yourself. 

Answered: Oct 09, 2020

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What's your favorite Chinese quote?
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段半山

In the future, you will definitely thank yourself for your hard work now. 将来的你,一定会感谢现在拼命的自己。

Answered: Oct 26, 2020

翻译李欢欢

Study is like sailing, either you keep forging ahead, or you keep falling behind. 学如逆水行舟,不进则退。

Answered: Oct 10, 2020

Believer

Rise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes flowers grow, not thunder.
言贵于思,而非其声。恰似雷霆万钧,不敌十里甘霖

Answered: Nov 14, 2020

p.s.w.o.h

万物皆有裂痕,那是光照进来的地方

Answered: Oct 13, 2020

Bella

Late fruits keep well. 大器晚成

Answered: Oct 29, 2020