To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

只根据对自己的影响来考虑人、事件和情况,无异于生活在地狱的门口。

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As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

据我所知,第二次降临已经到来。这是一个意识。它不是那种会到达并降落在森林空地上的人。他们谈论的地狱将是人们创造自己的不幸,一个人间地狱。

I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.

我知道很多人都有过不太好的经历,有时候你只需要一首歌来帮助你走出困境,尤其是当你正在经历痛苦的时候。

Cause and effect the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.

因果最好的人往往是为了逃脱而死于自己的手,而那些被遗忘的人永远无法理解为什么有人想要逃离他们。

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

简而言之,自由不是每个人都有充分利用自己才能的自由吗?只要他这样做时不伤害他人。

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

每个人都有自己的勇气,却被出卖了,因为他在自己身上寻求别人的勇气。

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

他们认为我有敏锐的洞察力,因为我能透过筛子看到他们。

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

年轻时我们对个人忠诚,长大后我们对环境和类型更加忠诚。

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

这到底有什么区别,左边还是右边?双方都有好人失败。

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

据说吃太多生菜会使人“昏昏欲睡”。

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

我认为我是一个比我允许自己成为的更好的演员。

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

很遗憾,我约会最多的人是我自己。