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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

我很高兴能够支持世界上最具远见的努力之一,为有关我们的宇宙以及其他地方可能存在何种其他文明的一些基本问题寻求基本答案。

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

我有一个遗憾,那就是我没有很早就知道发生了什么,这样我就可以阻止人们从事非法活动。

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

一个人只做一件事的仆人是很可悲的;他的男子气概全被过度的工作所消耗了。

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

如果意识能在人的一生中独立于身体而发挥作用,那么在人死后,意识也能独立于身体而发挥作用。

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.

我不想让人们认为他们只是看到了另一个演员用他同样的伎俩和虚假的魅力。

This is my universe, my time, my world. There is no going back to what was. There is only the future.

这是我的世界,我的时间,我的世界。没有回头路了。只有未来。

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

如果我必须再活一次,我也会犯同样的错误,只是会更快。