Fragments on Yerong Li https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/categories/fragments/ Curious about how the world works. Building, writing, learning. Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2024-2026 · CC BY-NC 4.0 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:48:04 +1000 Tenets https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/09/tenets/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:48:04 +1000 https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/09/tenets/ A living list of sentences and principles from scripture, Amazon decision-making, and other thinkers that serve as personal orientation points. Bible

“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7-9)

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18)

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)

Amazon

One-way/Two-way Door Decisions

Everything fails, all the time

Other

If you believe you can or believe you can’t, either way, you’re right. (Henry Ford)

Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from. (Jodie Foster)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)

Figure out what you would die for, then live for it. (Peter Diamandis)

The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi)

]]> Amazing Human Beings https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/08/amazing-human-beings/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:11:04 +1000 https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/08/amazing-human-beings/ A short, evolving roster of people whose work, lives, or presence feel worth remembering. 排名不分先后，持续更新:

Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo da Vinci
Friedrich Hayek
James Stewart
Novak Djokovic
Herbert A. Simon
Emily Dickinson
Alan Turing
Ada Lovelace
Derek Sivers
Yuan Li
Tsai Ing-wen
孙玲

]]> Love is not fair on its own https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/08/love-is-not-fair-on-its-own/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:38:19 +1000 https://8eb2cdb7.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/08/love-is-not-fair-on-its-own/ A spare English poem about uneven desire, cooling fire, and the asymmetry inside love. Love is not fair on its own

Like the dark side of the Moon

The scale tilts to the side

Where hearts with heavy desire reside

Countless plays abide by one rule

One soul on fire —

Till it cools

A burning gaze —

Rests upon a nameless bloom

Scorched —

Descending into the tomb

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