The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

  • -- Marie Bashkirtseff 玛丽·巴什基特塞夫

对不愉快的期待比事情本身更可怕。

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

事实上,我们最美好的时刻最有可能发生在我们感到非常不舒服、不开心或不满足的时候。因为只有在这样的时刻,由我们的不适所推动,我们才有可能走出我们的常规,开始寻找不同的方式或更真实的答案。

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

他们让我们付出了多少痛苦,那些从未发生过的罪恶。