赏梅要冷，越冷越香，越香越雅。
——卓东来

我们终此一生都得迎接最后的大限之日，无法回头，因此当下根本无需介意年龄，只要努力、任性地活着就好，生命的滋味就在于此。我早在许久之前就已破釜沉舟，每天为了应付生活上接踵而来的挑战而活。反正事情无法尽如人愿，即便日常生活诸事繁杂，只要还有行动力，抱着我小小的相机，其他事情，我一概置之不理。
<迈向另一个国度>

Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace
To look through and behind this mask of me,
(Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly
With their rains,) and behold my soul's true face,
The dim and weary witness of life's race! --
Because thou hast the faith and love to see,
Through that same soul's distracting lethargy,
The patient angel waiting for a place
In the new Heavens! -- Because nor sin nor woe,
Nor God's infliction, nor death's neighbourhood,
Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,
Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed,—
Nothing repels thee, ... Dearest, teach me so
To pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good!
Elizabeth. B. Browning, <Sonnets From The Portuguese>

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way--in short,
the period was so far like the present period,
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, <A Tale of Two Cities>