Belief, Confucius

主忠信。

- 孔子

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Reading, Edith Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

- Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Compromise, Unknown

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

- Unknown

Love, Gina Gershon as Sharon McCarthy from P.S. I Love You (2007)

Holly Kennedy: Do you think it'd be all right if I stop my life right here? Become good Miss Haversham of the Lower East Side? Never leave my apartment till I'm old. Sit in my wedding dress...
Sharon McCarthy: Which you never had.
Holly Kennedy: With an old piece of wedding cake?
Sharon McCarthy: Which you never had. Gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

- Gina Gershon as Sharon McCarthy from P.S. I Love You (2007)

Beauty, Zhuangzi

毛嬙、麗姬，人之所美也，魚見之深入，鳥見之高飛，麋鹿見之決驟。

- 莊子, 齊物論

Mao Qiang(毛嬙) and Li Ji(麗嬉) were accounted by men to be most beautiful, but when fishes saw them, they dived deep in the water from them; when birds, they flew from them aloft; and when deer saw them, they separated and fled away.

- Zhuangzi (莊子), The Adjustment of Controversies (齊物論)

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Writing·Reading, Sir Arthur Helps

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

- Sir Arthur Helps

Opportunity, Morgan Freeman as God from Evan Almighty (2007)

Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be couragous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?

- Morgan Freeman as God from Evan Almighty (2007)

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