Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

  • -- Molleen Matsumura 松村摩林

理性引导我们试图了解周围的世界。理性和同情心都引导我们努力将知识运用到道德上,去理解他人,并与他人建立道德关系。

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

最痛苦的事情,就是在爱一个人太多的过程中迷失了自己,忘记了自己也是特别的。

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

同情会自动地邀请你与他人建立联系,因为你不再认为他人是你精力的消耗者。

I find there are usually no extremes in relationships, even friendship. One is not always right or never wrong.

我发现通常在关系中没有极端,甚至在友谊中也没有。一个人并不总是对的或从不犯错。

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

脱离了道德规范,领导只能沦为管理,政治只能沦为技巧。

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

不道德的本质是倾向于对自己破格。

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

一个好的头脑和一颗善良的心永远是一个强大的组合。

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

害怕失败绝不能成为不去尝试的理由。

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

没有一颗富裕的心,财富是一个丑陋的乞丐。