The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

头脑永远不会满足于眼前的事物,而是总是脱离当下,沉浸在未来幸福的计划中……人类心灵的自然飞行不是从快乐到快乐,而是从希望到希望。

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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

生命的意义在于人,所以你要对你身边的人和你周围的人好。所以我的很多项目都是关于我如何影响这个世界。

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

有些女孩喜欢说一套做一套。我就是我,我很直率。对我来说,一切都是黑白分明的。我不太喜欢玩心理游戏。

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

为什么当一个人建了一堵墙,另一个人马上就需要知道另一边是什么?

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

打开思想的目的,就像打开嘴巴一样,是为了把它再次关在某个坚实的东西上。