A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
更改/增长
Change/Growth
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
人生要么是一场大胆的冒险,要么什么都不是。面对变化,像自由的灵魂一样面对命运,这是不可战胜的力量。
We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.
我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套。一个口袋里有灰尘,另一个口袋里有金子。我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套来提醒我们是谁。
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year.
哦,让我们今天在花中得到快乐; 让我们不要想得那么远 如同不确定的收获;让我们在这里 一切都简单地发生在春天。
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
作为人类,我们的伟大不在于能够改造世界——这是原子时代的神话——而在于能够改造我们自己。
Community is that place where the person you least want to live with always lives. And when that person moves away, someone else arises to take his or her place.
社区是你最不想与之生活在一起的人永远生活的地方。 当那个人离开时,另一个人就会出现代替他或她的位置。
A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
一个人需要隔一段时间离开家人和同伴,去新的地方。一个人必须离开熟悉的环境,才能接受影响和改变。
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again."
如果我们失败了,我们不需要自责、责备或愤怒——我们需要重新意识到自己的意图,重新下定决心,再次全心全意。”
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
我们渴望了解周围的一切,我们得到的越多,我们的欲望就越多;我们看到的越多,我们就能看到的越多。
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
生活是一个不断变化的过程,是我们必须经历的各种状态的组合。人们失败的地方在于,他们希望选举一个国家并继续留在这个国家。这是一种死亡。
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
主人的工具永远拆不开主人的房子。他们可能允许我们暂时在他自己的游戏中打败他,但他们永远不会允许我们带来真正的改变。
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
要时刻注意,每件事都是变化的结果,要习惯于这样的想法:自然界最喜欢改变现有的形式,创造出与之相似的新形式。
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
诗歌不仅是梦想和憧憬;它是我们生活的骨架。它为未来的变革奠定了基础,架起了一座桥梁,跨越了我们对前所未有的恐惧。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.
凡事都要有耐心,但最重要的是要对自己有耐心。不要在考虑自己的缺点时失去勇气,而是要立即着手改正——每天都要重新开始。
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
没有人是你的朋友,他要求你保持沉默,或者拒绝你成长的权利。
I'm nowhere as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
我哪都不如我父亲坚强。我真的认为我比他更愿意改变。
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
如果你不喜欢某样东西,改变它;如果你不能改变它,那就改变你思考它的方式。
All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward.
并非所有的变化都是增长;因为所有的运动都不是向前的。
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。