When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

  • -- Barbara De Angelis 芭芭拉·安吉丽思

当你对一段关系做出承诺时,你会投入更多的注意力和精力,因为你现在拥有了这段关系。

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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

自由不仅仅是随心所欲的机会;这也不仅仅是在既定的选择中进行选择的机会。首先,自由是形成可用选择的机会,是就这些选择进行辩论的机会,然后是做出选择的机会。

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

自由主义者认为,正常的成年人没有权利把选择强加给其他正常的成年人,除非是在异常情况下,比如当一个人发现另一个人失去知觉,并管理医疗援助或呼叫救护车时。

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.

激活你创造的种子的方法是选择你想要创造的结果。当你做出选择时,你激活了巨大的人力资源和能量,否则这些资源和能量是无法被利用的。

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

想要回到子宫,又想要自由,这两者之间的关系很紧张。因为有时候女人的关注可能过于母性,你想说:“啊!”

Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right."

爱不仅仅是一种感觉:它是一个需要持续关注的过程。良好的爱需要笑声、忠诚,需要更多的是能够说“我理解”,而不是听到“你是对的”。

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

男人能给女人最好的礼物就是他的专注。

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

明智的人做决定很慢,但会遵守这些决定。

Treat her like a princess if she behaves like royalty.

如果她表现得像皇室成员,就像对待公主一样对待她。