You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

  • -- Eleanor Roosevelt 埃莉诺·罗斯福

每次你真正停下来正视恐惧的时候,你都会获得力量、勇气和自信。你必须做你认为你不能做的事。

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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

死亡过去常常在生命的壮年宣布它自己,但现在人们拖得太久了,有时我们似乎到了不得不宣布死亡的时候。就好像一个人死的时候需要一种特殊的力量,而不是最终的弱点。

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

我从建筑学的角度来思考小说。你必须从这扇门进去,而且这扇门的构造必须让读者立即对建筑物的强度有信心。

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

世界上没有什么比一个知道如何勇敢地忍受不幸的人更令人钦佩的了。

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

勇敢的主要行为是顽强地忍受和承受危险,而不是攻击它们。