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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As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.

据我所知,做过面部拉皮手术的女性看起来并不年轻,只是更加怪异。你可以在屏幕上看到他们紧绷的瓷脸,然后把手伸到脸上,看起来像是外星人的脸。我觉得很奇怪。

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

归根到底,个人要对自己的生活负责,对“发现自己”负责。如果他坚持把自己的责任转移给别人,他就不能发现自己存在的意义。

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.

生活中的每一件事都是你所做选择的反映。如果你想要一个不同的结果,那就做一个不同的选择。

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

当有人问你是否能胜任某项工作时,你就告诉他们,“我当然能!”“那就忙起来,想想怎么做。

Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.

做你在一段关系开始时做的事情,它不会有终点。

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

在这个世界上,你不可以成为一个怪人,你必须适应它。

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

看恶人、听恶人的话、已经是罪恶的起头。

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

我已经准备好上场比赛了,所以我通常会努力适应这种情况。

You are a prisoner of your own mind.

你是自己思想的囚徒。

I'm a reflection of the community.

我是社区的反映。