As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

正如一个脚印不能在地球上开辟一条路一样,一个想法也不能在头脑中开辟一条路。为了走出一条深深的物理之路,我们走了一遍又一遍。要走出一条深邃的心灵之路,我们必须反复思考我们希望主宰我们生活的思想。

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I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

我没有那么冒昧地认为他们马上就能拿到,完全符合我的想法。无论如何,我希望他们会喜欢看它,不管它是什么。这就是为什么我开始写关于我工作的故事。

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

如果一个人决定着手去做,世上没有什么比忘记更容易的了。我相信我已经把你那可怜的亲爱的舅父忘得一干二净,好象他从来没有存在过似的。我认为这样做是我的责任。

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

这是否是上帝的绿色地球的问题并没有处于中心位置,除非在某种意义上,如果是这样,一个人会经常被提醒他可能正在死去。

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

你心里在想什么,如果你允许我说得太夸张的话。