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.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

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。

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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

没有一种习惯或品质比虚伪更容易获得,也没有一种东西比否认我们内心的情感和行为准则更容易学会。但是,每一种激情的种子都是与生俱来的,没有人不带着它们来到这个世界。

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

用死人的骨头打活人是神学家的老习惯。

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

我们在一个房间里坐了几个月,试着去想一些有趣的事情。

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

如果你想得大,那么它就会很大。