We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

我们是如此痴迷于做,我们没有时间和想象力留下。因此,人们看重的不是他们是什么样的人,而是他们所做的或所拥有的——以及他们的有用性。

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I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

我认为生命的意义本质上可能是一段旅程,而不是任何一件事、一个结果或一个结果。

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly all the time, is having to accept it.

也许唯一比时时刻刻都要感恩更糟糕的事情,就是不得不接受它。

Men are always lost, they are confused and afraid, thus they are more trouble than they're worth.

男人总是迷失,他们困惑和害怕,因此他们比他们的价值更多的麻烦。

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

不管结果如何,这是我们唯一会输的方法。

There is no virtue in the herb that is not got in time.

没有及时得到的美德是不存在的。

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

不,不,你没有在想;你只是在讲逻辑。

Be what you want to be not what others want to see.

做你想做的,而不是别人想看到的。

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

年轻人打扮。老人的计划。