Quotes to Live By__笔记（二）

Chapter 4~6: Work, Calm and Leisure

To judge by the amount of productive thinking that goes on there, most beds have a better claim to be called offices than offices. 

谁不认同？

What ends up aging and eventually killing us isn’t one big thing but thousands of tiny obligations, which we don’t have the heart to push away,which all seem relatively minor,but which collectively have the power to finish us off.

假牙、备用眼镜丢失原因精确分析。

Office life would not be possible without the hard takeoffs and landings by coffee and alcohol. 

上海、东京、伦敦、纽约，大体剧情相似吧！：-）

There are few catastrophes, in our own lives or in those of nations, that do not ultimately have their origins in a shortfall of emotional intelligence. 

视角新颖。

An average office is filled with so much psychoanalytic complexity that the idea of being able to be “professional” is a prelude to constant puzzlement and disappointment. It would be gentler on our nerves to accept from the first that we are operating in an asylum that has no wish to recognize itself as such.  

布尔乔亚创立的快乐办公乌托邦？

At the end of an average day, our minds are so filled with static, it would take five closely packed pages to begin to capture most of what was fluttering through consciousness. 

茨威格形容思想之于小河、小溪及深海巨兽。

Things only ever seem stable because we aren’t standing close enough to them to realize their contingency. 

蛮哲学意味。

Growing up should mean feeling ever less unique - in painful and redemptive ways. 

经过高考之人不言自明。

Anxiety is not always a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind or an error to which we should locate a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable and sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, uncertainty and riskiness of existence. 

焦虑仅对于存在之种种疑虑之正常反应，不必多焦虑。（如何操作？）

Melancholy is not rage or bitterness; it is a noble species of sadness that arises when we are open to the fact that life is inherently difficult for everyone and that suffering and disappointment are at the heart of human experience. It is not a disorder that needs to be cured; it is a tender-hearted, calm, dispassionate acknowledgement of how much pain we must inevitably all travel through. 

紫色某种程度上代表典雅的忧郁。怀念陈百强的歌。

You have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of flowers, pretty skies and uneventful boring days. 

寅次郎落魄返乡之动力源泉。

A good life requires us to do two relatively trickly things: know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with the school authorities and, simultaneously, never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we ‘re asked to study. We need to be outwardly obedient and inwardly discerning.  

外圆内方。Psychology 101 mentions “political savvy” which needs more reading. 

Being funny should only ever be an incidental by-product of trying to get to an important truth, never a destination in itself.    

星爷字正腔圆滴：“其实我是一个演员”。

From <the school of life>