Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  • -- Lao Tzu 老子

知足是最大的财富。自信是最好的朋友。不存在是最大的快乐。

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

我们需要找到上帝,他不可能在嘈杂和不安中被找到。上帝是沉默的朋友。看看大自然——树、花、草——是如何在寂静中生长的;看看星星、月亮和太阳,它们是如何在寂静中移动的……我们需要沉默来触摸灵魂。

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

远方的朋友有时比身边的朋友更亲密。这山岂不是比住在山上的人,更使人敬畏,看得更清楚吗?

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

没有一种紧缩等于平衡的思想,也没有一种幸福等于满足;没有一种疾病比得上贪婪,也没有一种美德比得上仁慈。

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

真正的满足并不取决于我们拥有什么;浴缸对提奥奇尼斯来说够大了,但对亚历山大来说世界太小了。