Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  • -- Saint Francis of Assisi 阿西西的圣方济各

求你赐给我极端贫穷的宝藏:求你赐给我我们秩序的显著标记,使它在日光之下不拥有任何属于它自己的东西,为了你名的荣耀,除了乞讨,它没有别的遗产。

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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

坏事确实会发生;我如何回应他们决定了我的性格和我的生活质量。我可以选择永远坐在悲伤中,被失去的沉重所束缚,也可以选择从痛苦中站起来,珍惜我所拥有的最珍贵的礼物——生命本身。

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

我不认为人们明白,贫穷意味着你必须从早到晚工作,才能熬过一天。我认为有一种观念认为穷人整天无所事事。

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

你们花费了许多生命和财富,为许多不愿接受自由的国家带来了自由。在这里,你们有一个自己赢得胜利的民族,他们只需要帮助就能保护它。

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

穷人是隐形的,这是他们最重要的一点。它们不像旧的改革辞令那样简单地被忽视和遗忘;更糟的是,他们没有被看到。