Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  • -- William Ewart Gladstone 威廉·尤尔特·格莱斯顿

不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不论你的生活如何卑贱,你要面对它生活,不要躲避它,更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西,无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变,是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

没有这一天赋——保持生活热情的精神能力,没有什么比财富、学识甚至健康更重要的了。这是信条的信条,是所有重要信仰的最终沉淀和升华:你应该能够相信生活。

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy

耶和华阿,求你使我作你平安的器皿。哪里有仇恨,就让我播下爱的种子;哪里有伤害,哪里就宽恕;哪里有怀疑,哪里就有信仰;哪里有绝望,哪里就有希望;哪里有黑暗,哪里就有光明;哪里有悲伤,哪里就有快乐

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

在试图思考我们如何才能做出巨大的改变时,我们决不能忽视我们每天可以做出的微小改变。随着时间的推移,这些微小的改变累积成我们常常无法预见的巨大变化。

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

让我们崇敬,让我们崇拜,但要挺直腰板,睁大眼睛,高高在上,而不是最低微;未来,而不是过去!

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn’t know where they’re going.

能力是一种狭隘的理想。能力使火车准时运行,却不知道开往哪里。

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

也有人说我时常自相矛盾。是的,随着时间的推移,我进步得很快。

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

政治不是金钱或权力游戏;它是关于改善人们的生活。