Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

  • -- Swami Shivananda 瓦南达

欲望是贫困。欲望是心灵上最大的不洁。欲望是行动的原动力。心中的欲望才是真正的不洁。即使是欲望的火花也是非常邪恶的。

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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

我不想对任何人吹嘘,也不想看到任何人吃乌鸦,不管是比喻的还是别的什么。我们应该团结起来,建立一个人人都可以随时吃火鸡的国家。

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

不耐烦本身转化为一种立即采取行动的愿望,就像通常的不耐烦一样,以最容易的方式解决问题。

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

我们不能再靠提高人类生产力而繁荣。我们越努力,就会越贫穷。

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

我出身贫寒,也是那种环境的一部分。