不跟风的空间

翻出一片很早以前收藏的essay，现在看来依然那么富有哲思，却又带了一丝稚嫩，也许，是我离理想主义者越来越远了吧…

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Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
    When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.
    The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had. 

Maybe it is true that we do not know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we do not know what we have been missing until it arrives. 

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Do not expect love in return; but if it does not, be content it grew in yours. 

It takes an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. 

Do not rely on one’s appearance; it can be deceived. Do not rely on wealth; even that fades away. Rely on someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. 

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them. 

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. 

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trails to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. 

Always put yourself in others’ shoes. If you feel that it hurts you; it probably hurts the other person, too. 

The happiest of people do not necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness waits for hose who cry, those who have been hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. 

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You cannot go on well in life until you let your past failures and heartaches go off. 

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. 

Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship. And if you don’t, don’t worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone’s day with this message.