There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

有些人对自卑如此不耐烦,以至于他们的感激是一种报复,他们回报利益,不是因为报偿是一种快乐,而是因为义务是一种痛苦

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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

如果我们的子孙后代更多地怀着感激而不是悲伤来铭记我们,我们就必须实现的不仅仅是科技的奇迹。我们还必须让他们看到这个世界是如何被创造出来的,而不仅仅是我们完成它时的样子。

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

屈服于生活并不等于承认自己的低人一等。

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

对感激之情,生而感恩。