The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

爱的开始是让我们所爱的人成为完美的自己,而不是扭曲他们以符合我们自己的形象。否则,我们只爱自己在他们身上的反映。

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Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

由于我作为母亲的孩子的独特经历,我的旅程的开始更多的是关于我自己试图弄清楚我是谁。我妈妈是最伟大的妈妈之一,她非常支持我所有的兄弟姐妹,支持我们做自己,而不是她想让我们做的自己。

Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

在我自己出了事故9年后,我发现试图回到过去做的那些事情根本不合适。一切似乎都土崩瓦解了。我不知道为什么,但我想是因为我是新来的。

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

我们的目标永远是用声音画出一幅漂亮的画面。我能找到的颜色越多,我能找到的阴影就越多——我们的目标总是制造更多的细微差别和颜色。

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

她缺乏自信,她贪得无厌地渴望赞美。她依靠自己在别人眼中的影子生活。她不敢做自己。

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

原罪是关于人的一件事,它使人能够设想自己的完美,却不能实现它。

I looked at my reflection in the rear view mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.

我看着后视镜里自己的倒影。我想这车配上口红会更好。

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

今天不是结束的开始,就是开始的结束。今天,我们正在创造历史。

Stop trying so hard to fit in you're perfect how you are nothing is better than being yourself.

不要那么努力去适应你是完美的,没有什么比做你自己更好的了。

It's for her own good that the cat purrs.

猫叫是为了它自己好。

I like to keep fit.

我喜欢保持健康。