🤯🌊🤔 Seeing mountains not as mountains and waters not as waters. As one gains experience, the world appears chaotic, with black and white reversed and right and wrong confused. Mountains evoke sighs, and waters elicit laments. // 看山不是山 看水不是水。涉世渐深，发现这个世界一片混沌，黑白颠倒，是非混淆，看山感慨，看水叹息。 Kàn shān bùshì shān kàn shuǐ bùshì shuǐ. Shèshì jiàn shēn, fāxiàn zhège shìjiè yīpiàn hùndùn, … Read more
🏞️👀🌊 Seeing mountains as mountains and water as water. When one first encounters the world, their heart is pure and their eyes see things as they are. // 看山是山 看水是水。一个人初识世界，内心纯洁，眼睛里看见什么就是什么。 Kàn shān shì shān kàn shuǐ shì shuǐ. Yīgè rén chū shì shìjiè, nèixīn chúnjié, yǎnjīng lǐ kànjiàn shénme jiùshì shénme. // Khán sơn thị … Read more
🌊💭🌏 And the invisible rivers keep flowing endlessly, up and down through life, keeping people from getting close to each other, making this shore distant and indifferent to the other shore. – Nguyễn Ngọc Tư // 那些看不见的河流依然在不停地流淌，穿越人生的起伏，让人无法靠近人，让这一岸与那一岸疏远、陌生。 Nàxiē kàn bùjiàn de héliú yīrán zài bù tíng de liútǎng, chuānyuè rénshēng de qǐfú, ràng rén wúfǎ … Read more
🚫🧠✅ Every “no” makes a little bit of space for you to say “yes” to something else – to your mental health, to your self-esteem, to your joy. (Matt Haig – The Comfort Book) // 每一个“不”都会给你一点空间，让你对其他事情说“是” 对你的心理健康、自尊、快乐。—— 马特·海格 《安慰之书》 Měi yīgè “bù” dūhuì gěi nǐ yīdiǎn kōngjiān, ràng nǐ duì qítā shìqíng shuō “shì” duì … Read more
🕰️📚💪 When people are truly busy, they don’t have time for complicated emotions; it’s when they are too idle that they start to take trivial matters seriously. — Og Mandino, “The Scroll Marked” // 人真的忙起来，根本没有太多复杂情绪；人太闲，才会把鸡毛蒜皮当回事。 —— 奥格·曼狄诺《羊皮卷》 Rén zhēn de máng qǐlái, gēnběn méiyǒu tài duō fùzá qíngxù; rén tài xián, cái huì bǎ … Read more
🌸😊🍀 Seriously, be a happy ordinary person. // 认真做个快乐的普通人。 Rènzhēn zuò gè kuàilè de pǔtōng rén. // Nhận chân tố cá khoái lạc đích phổ thông nhân. // Hãy nghiêm túc trở thành một người bình thường hạnh phúc. Expand your Chinese vocabulary beyond today’s quote with my HSK 1–9 vocabulary lists at https://ngocnga.net/hsk-1-9-vocabulary-list-with-no-muss-no-fuss/.
🌿❤️🤗 One who has not experienced hardship cannot offer advice on how to be magnanimous. // 未尝君苦，不劝大度。 Wèicháng jūn kǔ, bù quàn dà dù. // Vị thường quân khổ, bất khuyến đại độ. // Chưa nếm trải gian khổ của người khác, đừng khuyên họ độ lượng. Expand your Chinese vocabulary beyond today’s quote with … Read more
🌜💼🌞 Some people revel every night, while others hustle early in the morning for their livelihood. // 有人夜夜笙歌，有人一大早为生活奔波。 Yǒurén yè yè shēnggē, yǒurén yī dà zǎo wéi shēnghuó bēnbō. // Hữu nhân dạ dạ sanh ca, hữu nhân nhất đại tảo vi sinh hoạt bôn ba. // Người thì ăn chơi trác táng, người thì … Read more
