Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

  • -- Khalil Gibran 纪伯伦

昨天我们服从国王,在皇帝面前弯着脖子。但是今天我们只向真理下跪,只追求美,只服从爱。

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The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

只有当你想要取得巨大的成功,或者你想要创作一首热门单曲,或者你对音乐有一个特定的想法时,写歌的乐趣才会被打乱。

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

不要说“现在是早晨”,而说“昨天”就把它打发掉了。第一次看到它,就像一个没有名字的新生儿。

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

生活在昨天的梦里,我们发现自己仍然梦想着未来不可能的征服。

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

当我们无力追随真理时,我们就应该追随最有可能发生的事。

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

我们拉丁妇女从脖子上解放出来,而不是脖子下解放出来。