Classic quotations from "Ideal Afternoon"

Classic Quotes from "An Ideal Afternoon"

People should be willful, willful, willful. Today, too few people are willful. How can a person who is not willful maintain a healthy mental state? He is always compromising and restraining himself. How long can he sustain his unhappiness or forbearance? He has to make the decision.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

Only with extreme emptiness and leisure can we gain freedom. And it is quiet freedom. It's not like hiking. He seems to still have progress and reach the point. You must walk at a leisurely pace, not knowing where you are going or when you are going. Only by walking at a leisurely pace can you obtain high-quality freedom and the freedom of deep satisfaction in a quiet mind.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

An ideal afternoon should be in an ideal place, usually in a city. It is a quiet village with beautiful scenery and excellent air and water quality. However, it is good both in the morning and at night, and the afternoon is unavoidably miserable. An ideal afternoon depends on an ideal afternoon person. These people are happy to enjoy the outside world. I am willing to put aside my work for the time being, and I am willing to walk out of the comfortable living room, turn off the soft music, close the book I am enjoying, put on my shoes and go out. An ideal afternoon requires an ideal street tree. This is also the difference between the city and Tamura. If there are trees in the fields, they must be crops that have grown into a forest and are no longer suitable for people to wander among them.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

"About searching. People have so much unhappiness or so many thoughts like money because they haven't yet Found. The reason why people have so many problems or worries is because you haven’t found a good organization that teaches you to focus and use your energy, you haven’t found someone who is devoted to you, and you haven’t found what you want most. In fact, you are looking for other things. That is, you have been taught to look for things like money. That is, what do you want to pursue when you get up every day? This is probably the most difficult. Retired people are free but can’t find it. You haven’t found it yet. Once you find someone, you’re done. ——Shu Guozhi’s “Ideal Afternoon”

How much. The mist and moonlight cage, how many human and animal souls, how many ancient universes, and how thin the corners of Taipei are, I see it at five o'clock in the morning.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon." 》

The most obvious phenomenon of civilization is inertia. The more people are immersed in civilization and adhere to it, the more they follow inertia.

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Don’t go home too quickly. Don’t worry about the next stop. Don’t worry about whether you are dirty or whether the place is dirty. The photos or unwritten notes are not a loss, because there are still memories. Memories keep people thinking about new trips, and sleeping on a pile of unclean straw at night gives people not photos but memories. . Thinking about not having to sleep on a bed with sheets is as exciting as a child's dream. Sometimes we think too much and do too little. Really focusing on the trip itself is a real trip.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

The endlessly changing scenery during the journey may not be able to change your stubborn perspective and achieve the so-called "dizzying". After watching for a while, you will always look back at yourself and the world you have been longing for. If what you are thinking about cannot be seen during the journey, you will turn a blind eye and not deal with further matters. Don't bear the burden of history, just watch the fog from the other side, so you can better appreciate its beauty. If you insist on taking the fantasy seriously, it will often lose its beauty.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

People are accustomed to looking for the shadows and smells of the past life. The early days pass more slowly and profoundly, and they pursue the similarities between today and the past. The stronger the feelings. Or, the more unbearable the present is, the more you tend to use the beauty of the past to express your feelings. The small ones are like the subtle fragrance of lychees, and the big ones are like the streets, houses and woods in urban and rural areas. A strong sense of the gap between the past and the present.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

The world is so big that some people only focus on one thing in their lives and do it well, while others fiddle around here and there. Touching and getting nowhere will pass it by.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

There is a kind of place or a kind of person. After you leave it and some time passes, you think about it and feel It's good; but when you face it, you never feel that it is outstanding. This is very strange.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

As for why I didn't go to work, you can also tell me. Because I can't get up. I refused to sleep at night. I couldn't describe how good it was at night. There were so many things to do, so much music to listen to, so many movies to watch, so many books to read, so many friends to chat and debate with, and so many dreams to weave, so I don't want to just sleep at night. As for the morning, I couldn’t get up all day. Even if I can get up, I don’t think about it because the dream is not over yet.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

In Hangzhou, at five o'clock in the morning on a winter day, I rode to an old-style teahouse in Chaomingsi Lane, not necessarily for the tea. , not necessarily for the elderly, not necessarily for the architectural charm of a large open hall surrounded by dozens of ancient dirty square tables and topped with a bamboo strip shed. What is it for? Especially the smoke on the tea stove, the cigarettes lingering on the table, and the mist coming out of people's mouths. Yes, it is these so-called "human smoke" that are so rare that I get out of bed. Push the door open to see what you are burning.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

Sweden's land is too clean, too plain, too desolate and deserted, so you are not allowed to even feel sad, you can't If you have any small sorrows or injuries, you can sing and sing to relieve them at any time, just like what people can do in Venice. ...The Swedes have a certain aloofness that has existed with the world since the beginning. They don't have the drunkenness of the Xianheng Hotel to spend the day, or the drunkards on the streets of Shinjuku leaning against the wall to urinate.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

"To live a day, live it as if it were a long and full day, rather than living a lot of minutes or a lot of seconds. ”

——Shu Guozhi’s “Ideal Afternoon”

The thousands of islands scattered on the Baltic Sea make the water near Stockholm even and flat as a mirror, as if it were infinite. Most of the time, there is no one in Jinpu, the vast extended lake, the masts and masts are staggered, the clouds meet the cold fields, the smoke is faint, and there is a burst of crows. In the villages on the island, the roads are slippery with thick frost, and occasionally sparse volvo car lights can be seen meandering by. The sound of the boat's motor, the fluffy boat entering the pond, startled the sand birds. Some voices are just these. There was no sound, even though bright yellow jackets could be seen shaking in the distance. The sound of boats, the sound of water lapping on the shore, and the sound of flying geese in my ears were even clearer, and my eyes were extremely sad.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

I don't love New York so much because it has too many concepts; endless high-rise walls, and I don't know what's inside the walls. There was too much repetition; there was a department store, then another; there was a play, then another, and then another. There are repeated people, repeated scenes, and repeated things, so it seems very big, but for some reason it always feels small when people experience it. If one lives in New York for the rest of his life, it will seem like a short life. The feeling is the same in Shanghai

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

People who live in continuous eras will not lament the vicissitudes of life, and therefore Americans do not grow old. Even if over-nutrition causes wrinkles on the skin and makes you look old, your mind will still be youthful and simple, and your attitude will remain calm and comfortable. This is what makes the Chinese people who have endured many hardships and vicissitudes deeply admire. Makes sense.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

Don't pursue perfection too much. If you don't criticize your surroundings, you will actually be healthier and more likely to be happy. In fact, being picky is learned gradually and is a phenomenon of civilization. It is even a snobbish habit that is naturally easy to develop in the progress of civilization.

——Shu Guozhi's "Ideal Afternoon"

Atmosphere is often a product of memory. For example, Keelung always seems to be filled with some kind of indescribable atmosphere, as if to say, pity.

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