1.
Time passes, I change, yet the people I once knew remain frozen at the moment I last saw them.
2.
When I praise a beautiful woman, I’m not complimenting her hair colour or the shade of lipstick she wears, but the effort she’s poured into transforming herself over the years.
3.
I don’t need anyone’s false smile, nor will I keep fooling myself into believing I’ve forgiven them. I simply want to live true to my own nature, and I hope you too can live true to your sorrow.
4.
If I were too old to love you again, then by loving you once more, I would become younger than ever before.
5.
Unlike in stories, my characters are forewarned of what may come, for I lay before them the choices they might take. In life, however, I am granted no such foresight. I know only what I desire, what I fear, and what I await. Beyond these, I cannot speak even to myself.
6.
Such is life: the one who proclaims virtue the loudest often proves the least humane.
7.
Trust is finite, yet the human heart is boundless. Spend your trust slowly, sparingly, with care.
8.
Guard yourself, lest you become the very kind of person you most despise.
9.
We speak so often of setting goals and striving towards them, yet rarely of what follows once they are reached. What comes after?
10.
There are times when the heart resembles a still lake—neither surging nor rippling, unmoved even by the passing wind. That is the moment to pause, or else to walk away.
11.
Do not reach out to help another when you yourself are not strong.
12.
Seek to be rewarded for your mastery, not merely for your toil.
13.
There are those who forever leave me uncertain whether I ever truly understood them. As time moves on, the doubt fades—not because I have come to understand, but because they have ceased to matter.
14.
Be grounded, my dear. Life holds more than one or two sorrows. Choose your griefs wisely, for only then does life retain its worth.
Lam Hà 