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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People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

人们总是问我和波西亚我们是不是要生孩子。我们想过了。我们喜欢在孩子们吃过饭、洗过澡之后和他们在一起。但我们最终决定不要我们自己的孩子。我们家的玻璃太多了。

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

我们想要的是使我们不幸的人民能够过一种勤奋的生活,因为只有通过稳定的工作,我们才希望我们的身心得到恢复。最重要的是,出于这一原因,我们已承诺将我国人民团结在我们的理想周围。

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

有人说得对,宇宙中没有什么是不重要的,没有什么是无能为力的;一个原子就可以溶解一切,拯救一切!什么恐怖!善恶之间有着永恒的区别。

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

从现在到世界末日,没有人会用我的眼睛来看待生活,我要充分利用我的机会。

At the center of the universe dwells the great spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

伟大的精神居于宇宙的中心。这个中心无处不在。它存在于我们每个人的内心。

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

当肚子空了,身体就变成了精神;满了以后,灵就成了身体。

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

我不喜欢没有工作,没有人给我回电话。

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

我从未用手术刀处理过尸体。