A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
更改/增长
Change/Growth
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
一个好的婚姻是允许个人的改变和成长，以及他们表达爱的方式。
You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.
你不能惩罚自己去改变。你不能强迫自己塑形。但是你可以把爱自己变成幸福。
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
我们一直在进步或倒退。生命中没有静止不动的东西。
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
永远不改变观点，永远不纠正错误，永远不会比今天更聪明的人。
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。
If you're not making changes in your life, you're not growing; you're only getting older. Growth is making positive changes.
如果你的生活没有改变，你就没有成长;你只会变老。增长正在产生积极的变化。
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
生命没有任何意义，只有人类通过展现自己的能力，通过富有成效的生活赋予生命的意义。
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.
如果你不喜欢这个世界，你就去改变它。你有义务去改变它——你只是一步一步地去做。
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
早晨起来，我在改善世界的欲望和享受世界的欲望之间左右为难。这使得计划一天的工作变得困难。
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
时刻记住你自己已经见证了多少变化。宇宙是变化的，生命是理解的。
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
生命既要使自己永存，又要超越自己。如果它所做的一切只是维持自己，那么活着只是没有死亡。
All the great spiritual teachers taught this same truth no matter what you've done or where i've been, every single one of us can change.
所有伟大的精神导师都教导我们同样的真理，无论你做过什么，无论我去过哪里，我们每个人都可以改变。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
有些人看到事情的本来面目，会说:“为什么?”我梦想着从未有过的事情，我说:“为什么不呢?”
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
释放熟悉和看似安全的东西，拥抱新的东西，需要很大的勇气。但在不再有意义的事情上没有真正的安全感。在冒险和刺激中有更多的安全感，因为在行动中有生命，在变化中有力量。
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
如果我们等待另一个人或另一个时间，改变就不会到来。我们就是我们一直在等待的那个人。我们就是我们所追求的改变。
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
随着我们智慧的增长，我们会更自由地宽恕。
Adversity precedes growth.
逆境之前增长。
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
当你走到绳子的尽头时，打个结，然后挂在绳子上。