A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
谎言永远不能把我们从另一个谎言中拯救出来。
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
艺术是使我们认识真理的谎言。
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
意识到自己的力量使我们谦虚。
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
我们中的大多数人,只要我们下定决心,就一定会感到幸福。
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。
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
除了你自己,不要提防任何人;我们最大的敌人就在我们内心。
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的,但它不会阻止我们购买它。
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
帮助我们的与其说是朋友的帮助,不如说是他们帮助我们的信心。
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
不是我们不知道的东西给我们带来麻烦,而是我们知道的东西没有给我们带来麻烦。
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
试炼告诉我们我们是什么;他们把泥土挖出来,让我们看看我们是什么做成的。
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.
教育的目的是使我们能够最大限度地发展我们内在的东西。
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命,前者造就了我们人类。
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
告诉我们要服从本能就像告诉我们要服从人一样。人们会说不同的话,直觉也是如此。我们的本能处于战争状态…每一种本能,如果你听从它,都会声称以牺牲其他本能为代价而得到满足。
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
我们既看见领航员驾驶我们所驾驶的航船,即使在沉船的时候,他也不让我们灭亡,我们的心就没有理由被恐惧所压倒,被疲惫所压倒。
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
我们每个人都有一个内心的梦想,只要我们有勇气承认它是什么,我们就能实现它。相信我们自己的信仰。承认往往是非常困难的。
When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.
刚开始的时候,我们就知道这部剧会成功或失败,我们需要找到一个核心观众来让我们生存下去。我认为我们已经做到了。
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此,我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。