What you did three years ago or yesterday no longer matters; What counts is what you are doing today. It is better to suffer early in life than late. Life is exhausting—if you do not feel tired now, you will feel even more exhausted in the future. Life is bitter—if you do not taste bitterness now, it will become even more bitter later. All things are interconnected and counterbalanced; without the low, there is no high; without bitterness, there is no sweetness. Only after enduring hardship can one appreciate leisure, and only after experiencing pain can one truly understand joy.
While you are young, step out boldly to face the trials of wind, frost, rain, and snow. Cultivate a heart that is patient, open-minded, and wise. You must save yourself; only then will happiness arrive, for no one else can truly help you. An egg broken from outside is food, but broken from inside is life. Life is the same: pressure from outside is stress, but breaking from within is growth.
If you wait for others to break you from the outside, you are destined to become their prey. But if you break through yourself from within, you will find that this growth is equivalent to rebirth.
There is no job that is not hard, and no interpersonal relationship that is not complex. Starting today, smile every day. Aside from life and death, everything else is trivial. No matter what troubles you encounter, do not torment yourself. No matter how bad things get today, do not feel sad. Today is the youngest day you will ever be in the future; because there is a tomorrow, today is merely the starting line. After putting in the effort, you will realize that many difficulties can be overcome through persistence. In the end, a person’s strength lies in their resilience.