To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

  • -- Edward Everett Hale 艾德华·艾弗雷特·海尔

向前看而不是回头, 往外看而不是往里看,还有 伸出援助之手。

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We must be aware of the dangers, which lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

我们必须意识到存在于我们最慷慨的愿望中的危险。我们天性中的一些矛盾导致我们,一旦我们把我们的同胞作为我们启蒙兴趣的对象,就会继续把他们作为我们怜悯的对象,然后是智慧的对象,最终是强迫的对象。

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。

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡,必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候,你可以看到星星。

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

我以圣人的希望为指导:在关键的事情上,团结一致;在重要的事情上,多样性;凡事慷慨。

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

我爱我的过去。我喜欢我的礼物。我不为我所拥有的感到羞耻,我也不悲伤,因为我不再拥有它。

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

对心脏来说,没有什么运动比俯身把人举起来更有益的了。

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

提出正确的问题和给出正确的答案一样需要技巧。

If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.

如果你相信自己能造成伤害,那么就相信自己能修复。