Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think,“Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore.“ The “hurt“ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.
——What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Novelist, Haruki Murakami
痛苦難以避免,是否受苦卻可以選擇。比方說你正跑著步,突然覺得“哎呀,好難受啊,我不行啦”,這個“好難受”是無法避免的事實,然而是不是果真“不行”,還得聽憑本人裁量。
——《當我談跑步時,我談些什么》村上春樹,小說家