Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.

  • -- Victor Manuel Rivera 维克多·曼努埃尔·里维拉

自由让我们飞翔,但争吵摧毁了我们飞翔的能力。

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When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

当一位母亲与女儿争吵时,她会因冲突而产生双倍的不快乐,并因与女儿的冲突而产生同理心。母亲在一生中都保持着与女儿保持良好关系的特殊需要。

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于,他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性,并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

这种能力能让你了解周围的环境,并把重要的事情分类,保持警觉。然后把所有的信息放在一起,看它是否对你有意义。

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

从不想要的思想中解脱出来的程度和专注于一个思想的程度是衡量精神进步的标准。

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

没有经济安全和独立,就不可能有真正的个人自由。

He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.

想住在罗马的人不能和教皇争吵。