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Browse the major concepts that shape our lives, like love, courage, and happiness.
“The Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep, but it cannot compare to your farewell, Wang Lun.
“Happiness, he thought, was the ability to forget.
“We believe the one we love cannot be truly lost to us.
“Time does not heal all wounds. It only teaches us to live with them.
“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
“When you are absent, my nights are long; when you are near, the day is gone too soon.
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
“My heart is a tavern of love, where sorrow and joy drink together.
“One can forget anything, only not the past.
“Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.
“Life is a chronic illness with short periods of remission.
“The void expands like a disease.
“Memories are like anchors; they hold us to the past, sometimes painfully.
“So little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound was written on terrestrial things afar or nigh.
“The past is a country from which no one returns.
“The dead are never truly dead as long as someone, somewhere, still speaks their name.
“Joy and sorrow are inseparable.
“In every tear a secret message lies, if discerning eye can see.
“It is not fitting for me to recount great deeds and conceal great sorrows.