A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
把好句子，读进生活里。
一句英文，一种视角。慢慢读，总有一句与你共鸣。
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
年轻时我们遇到困难。我们年老时遇到困难。
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
从不成功的人认为成功是最甜蜜的。要理解一种甘露需要极其迫切的需要。
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
内战吗?这是什么意思?有外国战争吗?不是每一场战争都是人与弟兄之间的战争吗?
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
对地狱的信仰，以及每一个野心注定要在骷髅手中受挫的认识，从来没有阻止过大多数人的行为，仿佛死亡只不过是一个毫无根据的谣言。
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
我们预料不到的事很少发生，但我们预料不到的事往往发生。
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
直到我害怕失去它，我才喜欢读书。人不爱呼吸。
If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon.
如果你想给自己一个公平的成功机会，永远不要期望太多太快。
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
要败坏一个青年，最可靠的方法就是教导他，要尊重那些想法相同的人，而不是那些想法不同的人。
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
这是与伟大的精神或造物主的理解，我们将遵循这些方式。
A blanket can be a meditation device. If the blanket is white, and you stare at it, you can blank out your mind and find peace within yourself.
毯子可以是一种冥想工具。如果毯子是白色的，你盯着它看，你可以清空大脑，找到内心的平静。
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
当我年轻的时候，我发现我所做的十件事中有九件是失败的。我不想失败，所以我做了十倍的工作。
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
如果我留在智利，我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中，在家庭中，在人们期望我成为的那个人里。