When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

当我们为后代做打算时,我们应该记住美德不是遗传的。

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When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

当你失去了像我这样的人,在我很小的时候就失去了我的生母,而你还记得失去她的整个过程时,你想抓住一些让你完整的东西。

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

我不害怕太多。我杀了家里所有的蜘蛛,我打算去跳伞。我喜欢女孩的力量,我很自信。

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

记住,它不是你来自哪里,甚至不是你在哪里;你要去哪里才是最重要的。

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

既然我们不能活得长久,那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

我对自己下一步或未来想做什么没有太多的计划。

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

感恩不仅是最大的美德,也是其他美德之母。

Cling to the One who clings to nothing; And so clinging, cease to cling.

紧紧抓住一个一无所有的人;所以执着,停止执着。

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

后代的功能是照顾自己。