The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  • -- Wendell Berry 温德尔·贝里

过去是我们的定义。我们有充分的理由去努力摆脱它,或者摆脱它的缺点,但是我们只有在它的基础上添加更好的东西,才能摆脱它。

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I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

我认为我们都在努力推动自己,克服我们的斗争。当我们这样做的时候,我们会更好地了解自己。

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

我可以很容易地逃到酒店度周末,什么也不做。

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

今天逃避明天的责任,是逃避不了的。

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

要奋斗,要探索,要有所发现,而不要屈服。