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After death, everyone will be severely judged for his sins.”
Income and status might be unrelated to sin and salvation.
But sometimes, without even realizing it, we trample on people’s feelings, hurt their pride, make them feel bad.
They never teach what’s important in school.
“There’s nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily.”
Your brain is made to think about difficult things.
“Are you telling me that there’s no need to know what it was all about?”
There’s nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily,
Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn’t understand at first. And that becomes the cream of your life. The rest is boring and worthless.
At nineteen, I knew nothing about the inner workings of my own heart, let alone the hearts of others. Still, I thought I had a pretty good grasp of how happiness and sadness worked.
So quickly naked with each other, it was hard to know what to talk about.
“Loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance,”
There’s not one thing that connects my life and hers.
Like two straight lines overlapping, we momentarily crossed at a certain point, then went our separate ways.
Even memory, though, can hardly be relied on.
even if it was way overpriced, I should have bought it, at the very least as a souvenir of all the twists and turns my life had taken.
The death of a dream can be, in a way, sadder than that of a living being.
She’s my kid sister, blood related, the same genes and all, and we’ve been living together under the same roof since she was born, but there are still tons of things I don’t understand about her.
I couldn’t grasp the fact that she’d died and no longer existed in this world.
these weren’t subjects you just chatted about over coffee. There was something more significant in our talk, something that seemed meaningful to us, in the act of living out our lives.
What elements in the lives of these two were symbolically suggested by their meeting again and their conversation?]
Talking about ugliness also means talking about beauty.
Happiness is always a relative thing. Don’t you think?
It’s true that life brings us far more defeats than victories.
How could there ever be a lucky omen at a place like this?
So far away, yet so very close.
Of course, winning is much better than losing. No argument there. But winning or losing doesn’t affect the weight and value of the time.
A minute is a minute, an hour is an hour. We need to cherish it. We need to deftly reconcile ourselves with time, and leave behind as many precious memories as we can—that’s what’s the most valuable.
I want to face people in the world and apologize to each and every one.
You have time on your hands, and you try to decide what you want to do, but can’t come up with a thing.
