Spring silkworms don't spin silk until they die, and tear-like wax oil can only drip dry when candles burn to ashes.
2. There is a road to diligence in Shushan, and there is no limit to learning the sea. -Excerpted from the Collected Works of Mr. Changli
Translation: The way to ask questions in learning is to read books a hundred times (because reading books a hundred times means self-evident, that is, diligence); Hundreds of rivers run into the sea, and every day makes progress (this is the endless learning of the sea), so learning should be patient (this is bitter) like a boat.
3, the blade is sharpened, and the plum blossoms are bitter and cold.
The sword front is sharpened, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from the cold winter.
4. If the sky is going to fall on the people of Sri Lanka, we must first suffer from their minds, bones and muscles, starve their bodies, empty their bodies and act indiscriminately. Therefore, their persistence has benefited them a lot. -Excerpt from Mencius, Gaozi, Summer.
Therefore, if God wants to put a heavy responsibility on a person, he must first make his mind uneasy, his bones and muscles tired, his body hungry, his body empty and weak, and every movement is unsatisfactory. Only in this way can he stimulate his mind, make him patient and increase his abilities that he does not have.
5, there is no cold, where is the plum blossom fragrance? -from the Tang Dynasty Huangmei Zen Master? Ode to the opening class
Without severe cold, plum blossoms can't smell incense.