There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.

  • -- Erich Fromm 埃里希·弗洛姆

生命没有任何意义,只有人类通过展现自己的能力,通过富有成效的生活赋予生命的意义。

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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

人真正需要的不是一种没有紧张的状态,而是为一个值得自己去追求的目标而奋斗。他所需要的不是不惜任何代价释放紧张,而是一种潜在意义的召唤,等待着他去实现。

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

我们的父不时从我们心里说的一个字,比我们不加注意、急促地多次祷告,更能成就我们的事。

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

女神象征的最简单、最基本的意义是承认女性权力作为一种慈善和独立的权力的合法性。

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

当我可以死去的时候,我希望那些最了解我的人对我说,我总是摘下蓟,在我认为会开花的地方种上一朵花。