Wisdom I Pondered This Week

• “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ” — Jack London
• If every instinct that you have is wrong, then the opposite must be right — do the opposite.
• “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward
• “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” — Walt Disney
• “The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” — Muhammad Ali

Things I Learned This Week

• A carafe is a glass container with a flared lip used for serving liquids, especially wine and coffee.
• Third Culture Kids (第三文化兒童) are people who were raised in a culture other than their parents’ or the culture of their country of nationality, and also live in a different environment during a significant part of their child development years.
• “c/o” (not “c.o.”) = in an address = in care of
• in lieu (of) = instead (of)
• 英國脫歐 Brexit = Britain + Exit