I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

  • -- Edward Everett Hale 艾德华·艾弗雷特·海尔

我只是一个人,但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事,但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。

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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

多年前,我认识到我与所有生物都有亲缘关系,我下定决心,我不比地球上最卑贱的人强一点点。我当时说过,现在也说过,只要有下层阶级,我就在其中;只要有犯罪的成分,我也有;只要有一个灵魂在监狱里,我就没有自由。

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

没有这一天赋——保持生活热情的精神能力,没有什么比财富、学识甚至健康更重要的了。这是信条的信条,是所有重要信仰的最终沉淀和升华:你应该能够相信生活。

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

凡事都要有耐心,但最重要的是要对自己有耐心。不要在考虑自己的缺点时失去勇气,而是要立即着手改正——每天都要重新开始。

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

我想确保我不会妨碍那支球队明年的成功。我不认为我能像他们大多数人那样去训练,而不伤害球队。如果我试着那样做,我会发疯的。

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

我不这么认为,因为我一直渴望能像现在这样演奏,但由于技术上的限制,我总是无法发出声音——现在我几乎可以实时播放我听到的声音。

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

在试图思考我们如何才能做出巨大的改变时,我们决不能忽视我们每天可以做出的微小改变。随着时间的推移,这些微小的改变累积成我们常常无法预见的巨大变化。

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

公众需要艺术——一个“自称艺术家”的人有责任认识到,公众需要艺术,而不是为少数人创造资产阶级艺术,忽视大众。

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

如果我死得很惨,就像有些人害怕的那样,也有一些人在密谋,我知道凶手的思想和行动中会有暴行,而不是我的死亡。

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

对我们的同胞最大的罪恶不是恨他们,而是对他们漠不关心;这就是不人道的本质。

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

始终致力于思想、言语和行为的完全和谐。时刻致力于净化你的思想,一切都会好起来的。

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

只要生命存在,就必须相信某种东西,这种残忍的必要性并不特别证明任何信仰是正当的。

A person is always responsible: if his act was accidental or intentional, whether he was awake or asleep.

一个人总是有责任的:如果他的行为是偶然的或有意的,无论他是醒着还是睡着了。

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

我的目标是以最好最简单的方式把我看到的和感觉到的写在纸上。

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

我从来没有看到做了什么;我只看到需要做的事情。

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

我对你漠不关心,几乎到了厌恶的程度。

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

我和比我聪明的人打交道有很多经验。

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

我们谈原则,但按动机行事。