A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
更改/增长
Change/Growth
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
如果不改进个人，就不可能建设一个更美好的世界。为此目的，我们每个人都必须为自己的进步而努力，同时对全人类负有共同的责任，我们的特别责任是帮助我们认为最有用的人。
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
事实上，我们最美好的时刻最有可能发生在我们感到非常不舒服、不开心或不满足的时候。因为只有在这样的时刻，由我们的不适所推动，我们才有可能走出我们的常规，开始寻找不同的方式或更真实的答案。
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
倾听就是不断地放弃所有的期待，把我们的注意力完全地、新鲜地放在我们面前的事物上，而不是真正地知道我们将听到什么或那将意味着什么。在我们的日常生活中，倾听就是轻轻地向前倾，愿意被我们所听到的改变。
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
然后，在没有意识到的情况下，你试着在新的一天开始的时候提高自己;当然，你在这段时间里取得了很大的成就。任何人都可以做到这一点，这是免费的，当然是非常有益的。谁不知道，就必须从经验中学习和发现，平静的良心使人坚强。
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
没有规定的解决方案，没有针对重大问题的宏大设计。生活的解决之道就在于那些涉及到越来越多敢于创造自己的生活和艺术的个人的细小细节，敢于倾听他们内心最深处、最原始的、甚至更深层次的声音——地球内部的声音。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better
随着年龄的增长，人的本性就是反对变化，特别是向好的变化
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
很少有人有能力改变历史本身;但我们每个人都可以努力改变一小部分事件，而所有这些行为的总和将书写这一代人的历史。
Life is a progress, and not a station.
生活是一种进步，而不是一个车站。
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
你可以通过接触新想法时感受到的痛苦程度来判断自己的年龄。
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
毛毛虫所谓的世界末日，大师称之为蝴蝶。
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
最重要的是要记住:随时准备好放弃你现在的样子，去追求你可能成为的样子。