I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

  • -- Elizabeth Gilbert 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特

我认为,生活在没有那么多特权、机会或浮夸的文化中的人,对命运的运作有更多的尊重,以及人们发现自己所处的局限,而这些局限并不是他们自己的过错。

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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

然而,当特权完全依赖于公共利益对此类对话保密的广泛、无区别的要求时,就会与其他价值观产生冲突。

Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it’s your job to get where you’re going, to decide your own ending.

命运也许会把你送到某个地方,但你的任务是到达你要去的地方,决定你自己的结局。

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

是的,我有幸认识了很多非常有才华的人。

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

掌握我们命运的不是星星,而是我们自己。