If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

如果一个人跟不上他的同伴,也许是因为他听到了不同的鼓声。让他随着他所听到的音乐迈步前进,不管他是多么的有分寸,多么的遥远。

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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

如果建筑师想要加固一个破旧的拱门,他们会增加施加在上面的荷载,因为这样各个部分就能更牢固地连接在一起。因此,如果治疗师希望培养他们的病人的心理健康,他们不应该害怕通过对人生意义的重新定位而增加这种负担。

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

不要让自己被任何感情所束缚。保持你的孤独。如果真有那么一天,当你得到真爱的时候,你内心的孤独和友谊之间就不会有对立,反之亦然。即使是这个绝对正确的信号,你也会认出它来。

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

在这个世界上,跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中,我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

孤独在我们心中孕育着原始,孕育着陌生而危险的美——孕育着诗歌。但它也产生了相反的东西:反常的、非法的、荒谬的东西。