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。

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

我敞开心灵的电话,迎接和平、和谐、健康、爱和富足。然后,每当有怀疑、焦虑或恐惧试图给我打电话时,他们总是接到占线信号,很快就会忘记我的电话号码。

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

任何地方的不公正对任何地方的正义都是一种威胁。我们被困在一个不可逃避的相互联系的网络中,被命运的一件外衣所束缚。任何直接影响一个人的东西,都会间接地影响所有人。

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

你必须承担个人责任。你无法改变环境、季节或风,但你可以改变自己。这是你要负责的事情。

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

我们应该想想,每一天,如果我们没有跳过一次舞,就会失去意义。我们应该称每一个真理为假的,而不是伴随着至少一个笑声。

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

如果人类的大脑如此简单以至于我们能够理解它,那么我们就会如此简单以至于我们无法理解它。

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

有目标就是有自我意识。一个要规划的过程是一个值得期待的目的地。

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

工作似乎不影响我的生活。我有时间做任何事,甚至独处的时间。

If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean.

如果每个人都在自家门前扫地,城市很快就会干净了。

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

如果我能阻止一颗心的破碎,我就不会白活。

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

我们不应让容忍堕落为漠不关心。

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

只有这一点是上帝所否认的:那就是撤销过去的能力。

He who is his own teacher, has a fool for his pupil.

自己当老师的人,对自己的学生也是傻瓜。

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

生命的意义是什么?快乐和有用。

Wake up each day as if it were on purpose.

每天醒来,就像它是故意的。

He has given the hen for the egg.

他以母鸡换鸡蛋。

I am an isolationist.

我是一个孤立主义者。