“Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again.” — Stephen King

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane.” — Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different.” — Mark Nepo

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.” — Alan Moore

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” — Ecclesiastes 3:1

天下萬物皆有定時。 —《聖經・舊約・傳道書》第 3 章第 1 節

“Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.” — Hyman Minsky

The Surfer Mentality

喜憂參半是生活，起起落落 ¹ 是人生。

沒有任何事是永恆的，凡事皆無常；人生的一切起起伏伏都會過去，無論是美好的事物或痛苦的經歷。

你可以什麼都不信，但一定要相信週期。這世間萬物，無非是因果和週期。高高在上的東西，有一天會跌落神壇；沉潛低谷的東西，有一天也會重見天日。

Life is a rollercoaster. Just gotta ride it. Enjoy the ride!

有時綻放果實，有時修剪舊枝，有時深耕土壤

Some seasons you produce fruit, some seasons you prune, and some seasons you let your roots grow deep.

業 (Karma) is the belief that your actions and choices can shape your life and the next.

Kalachakra

• = The Wheel of Time/History = The Cyclicality/Seasonality of Life
• Time goes through a natural three-part cycle:
  1. Creation (growth)
  2. Destruction (struggle, valley of stagnation)
  3. Rebirth (new beginnings)

The Solstice (至日) ² reminds us: life is a beautiful cycle of renewal and retreat, each phase mirroring the other. ³ Embrace life’s natural rhythms.

好是壞的開始，壞是好的開始。

功不唐捐：所下的功夫和付出的努力都不會白費，終將獲得回報。

The Chinese Farmer

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Dispel your narratives

This too shall pass