We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  • -- Anne Sullivan 安妮·沙利文

我们想象自己想要逃离自私和平庸的生活,但我们却拼命地抓住枷锁不放。

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

我们为什么要去想那些可爱的东西呢?因为思考决定生活。把生活归咎于环境是一种普遍的习惯。环境改变生命,但并不支配生命。灵魂比周围的环境更强大。

The greatest difficulty in the breaking of habits lies in their having come to seem the natural way of reacting, so that even though we tell ourselves that we should break the habit, we do not essentially believe that we should.

打破习惯的最大困难在于它们似乎已成为一种自然的反应方式,因此,即使我们告诉自己应该改掉这个习惯,但实际上我们并不认为我们应该这样做。

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

二十岁的人充满斗志和希望。他想改革世界。当他七十岁时,他仍然想改革世界,但他知道他不能。

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

重要的是:能够在任何时候牺牲我们现在的样子,去追求我们将来可能成为的样子。