Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

骄傲使我们做作,谦逊使我们真实。

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Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

要谦卑,如同践踏在脚下的青草。小蚂蚁高兴地品尝着蜂蜜和糖的甜味。巨大的象被锋利的刺痛得发抖。

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

当一个孩子明白一个单词可以代表两件事时,他就会开始认真思考了。他们有一种既得利益,那就是找出一个词的意思,因为它是一个笑话的妙语。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

有些人可能已经注意到了锚台的新电脑架子。我们想要的不是电话,而是实时的电子邮件,我们很快就会开始这样做。

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

有时我躺在床上彻夜难眠,问自己为什么?然后一个声音没有回答任何私人问题,你的名字碰巧出现了。

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

根本没有礼貌的方式告诉人们他们把一生都献给了一个幻想。

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

超越骄傲是一件好事,但要做到这一点,你必须有骄傲。

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

骄傲地扬起下巴的人,看不到脚下的深渊。

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

我认为缺乏谦逊的人真的很烦人。

The artificial is always innocent.

人造的总是无辜的。