I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

我不能让宇宙服从我。我不能让别人顺从我自己的想法。我不能叫我自己的身体顺服我。

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

我们所观察的宇宙,如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善,只有盲目、无情的冷漠,那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

任何在使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道梦想的倾向、实现梦想的冲动和错过午餐的倾向。

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

经验告诉我们,要珍惜那些能欣赏你的人。

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

我清楚地看到外部形象是如何影响我所谓的身体形象的:它们向我的身体传递动作。

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

说到底,你的身体就像一座寺庙,你必须这样对待它。上帝就是这样设计的。

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

宇宙中有一个连贯的计划,尽管我不知道它是为了什么。

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

人们在冒险去做自己喜欢的事情之前,必须先经历真正的痛苦。

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new ending.

我们不能从头开始,但我们可以从现在开始,创造一个新的结局。