Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

不要把生命浪费在怀疑和恐惧中;把你自己花在你面前的工作上,充分肯定正确地履行这一小时的职责将是为随后的几个小时和几岁做好的最好准备。

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A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

一个有明确性格和目标的人,他理解我们的思维方式,一定会对我们施加力量。不能完全抗拒他;因为,如果他了解我们,他可以让我们了解他,通过文字、表情或其他符号。

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

人真正需要的不是一种没有紧张的状态,而是为一个值得自己去追求的目标而奋斗。他所需要的不是不惜任何代价释放紧张,而是一种潜在意义的召唤,等待着他去实现。

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

我开始相信整个世界是一个谜,一个无害的谜,我们疯狂地试图去解释它,仿佛它有一个潜在的真理,这使它变得可怕。

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

职业评论家在工作中读了太多的坏书,以至于他们对引人入胜的语句产生了一种不健康的渴望。

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

这就是上帝的目的——对上帝来说,对我来说,似乎是一个动词而不是名词,恰当的或不恰当的。

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

责任中有快乐,尽管它可能看起来并不快乐。