17 Insights You Should Know in 2018

1. Yearning always comforts others like a wise man, yet torments itself like a fool. Don't complain that others let you down; most of the time, the one who won't let you off the hook is yourself.

2. Your face looks calm and breezy, and no one knows how hard you're gritting your teeth. You walk with a breeze about you, and no one knows you still have bruises on your knees from old falls. You laugh carefree, and no one knows that when you cry, you can only shed silent tears. To make it look effortless, you can only work extremely hard behind the scenes. As a person, it's either mediocrity or solitude!

3. Time really is the greatest span in this world, making pain grow pale, making the stubborn choose to leave. Then, through the vicissitudes of life and the coming and going of people, you will understand: all is fate, and not the slightest bit is up to us.

4. When you learn to refuse others, learn to repay an eye for an eye, they will instead respect you, even hold you in awe. I finally believe that saying: being a bit heartless is not wrong... ...

5. The reason all relationships fade: one doesn't speak, one doesn't ask; or one asks awkwardly, and the other answers perfunctorily.

6. May time slow down, may old friends not scatter; may the person you miss be able to say goodnight to you, and may you not feel lonely on the days you venture out alone.

7. Only after you finish the path you must walk can you live the life you want to live. Some paths you have to walk alone. This is not loneliness, but a choice...

8. If we meet again someday, should we thank experience? It taught me to cherish. Life is like a play; thank you for being there, for helping me see myself more clearly. I have no story to tell, only my favorite strong liquor. If you're willing to sit down and clink glasses with me, I will naturally have a long future with you.

9. You have to live beautifully for yourself; you don't need a particularly beautiful appearance, just simple, clean, warm, and that is more than good enough. Not overly lost or dependent, having self-respect and independence is each person's greatest brilliance. If you weren't born a princess, please have the heart of an empress.

10. You don't know my suffering, so don't tell me to be magnanimous.

11. Better to turn things around than to argue; better to win glory than to get angry. Living isn't about winning sympathy with tears, but about winning applause with sweat.

12. There are too many people around you with whom you haven't torn off all pretense. You clearly see through many people but can't easily fall out with them. Showing a smile to people and things you loathe is a disgust that yearning must learn to master.

13. Don't argue with those sharp-tongued people. Those who live well are busy enjoying life; only those who live badly and have dirty hearts hope others will be just as unhappy, and try to use their own spite to whittle away others' happiness. Ignore these people and love yourself well.

14. A very incisive passage: without having known poverty, it's hard to become a proper person; without going through setbacks, one stays forever naive. Maturity is merely being good at hiding; the vicissitudes of life are merely having wounds without tears.

15. Yearning's fear of age is not actually about the aging that comes with growing older, but the fear that as age increases, yearning still has nothing to show for it.

16. Never talk when the conversation doesn't click. Some excitement will eventually fade. For people you don't truly approve of in your heart, there's no need to say too much.

17. Where in the world is there so much empathy? Your relentless giving merely spoils people into insatiable greed. Overthinking others' feelings means you're destined to feel bad yourself.

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