Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the whole sky.

  • -- Hafez 哈菲兹

即使过了这么久, 太阳从不对地球说, “你欠我的。” 看看发生了什么 这样的爱。 它照亮了整个天空。

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The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

事实上,现在政客和保险公司正在做决定。我们想让医生来做决定。我认为,随着时间的推移,这将导致一个更高质量、更低成本的体系。

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

对我来说,宽恕和同情总是联系在一起的:我们如何让人们对自己的错误行为负责,同时又与他们的人性保持足够的联系,让他们相信自己有能力被改造?

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

一个人不一定生来就有勇气,但他天生就有潜力。没有勇气,我们就不能持之以恒地实践任何其他美德。我们不能善良、真诚、仁慈、慷慨或诚实。

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

他是自由的,他知道自己掌握着决定自己生命进程的每一步的权力,他生活在一个不妨碍行使这种权力的社会中。

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

我对信仰有信心。我们信不信有神,神就在那里,我们为什么不信他呢?

The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.

阿谀奉承者是一个人的自我,所有微不足道的阿谀奉承者都有他的聪明才智。

Reminds me of nothing so much as a recently-dead fish before it has had time to stiffen.

这使我想起一条刚死的鱼,它还没有来得及变硬。

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

然而,担任市镇职员是我学习选举方法的一种方法。

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

慷慨是给予多于你所能,骄傲是索取少于你所需要。

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

智慧必须追随信念,绝不先于信念,绝不摧毁信念。

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

人性中最深切的渴望是被欣赏的需要。

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

总有一种方法既诚实又不残忍。

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

权势认为牺牲者的痛苦是忘恩负义。

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

自由:既无价又昂贵。

There is no hospitality like understanding.

没有一种款待像理解一样。