We are all puppets and I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

我们都是木偶，我只不过是能看见绳子的木偶。

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Every time he tried to get up, his knees buckled repeatedly; he was like a puppet whose strings were being pulled by jerking hands.

每一次要站起来时，膝盖都会抖个不停。他就像个木偶，绳子握在一只往上一拽一拽的手中。

youdao

The illustration that I use a lot is that we view life like a little marionette puppet, where you have these strings that run down to it, and we think that we are the puppet-master of our life.

我经常应用的这种错觉就是我们把生活看成是一个牵线木偶，有一些线绳牵制着它，我们以为我们是这个木偶的操控者。

youdao

But instead of dancing around like a puppet minus the strings or like Penn, you should focus on those annoying physical symptoms and redefine them as the signs of the good energy that they are.

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