A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choice
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
我的意志将塑造未来。无论我是失败还是成功，都将是我自己的事。我是原力;我可以扫清面前的任何障碍，也可以迷失在迷宫中。我的选择;我的责任;无论输赢，只有我掌握着自己命运的钥匙。
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
你的生活是你所有选择的总和，无论是有意识的还是无意识的。如果你能控制选择的过程，你就能控制生活的方方面面。你会发现自由来自于对自己的掌控。
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
我想我正在学习在职业选择上更加大胆，在个人生活上更加自信。作为一个个体，我并不总是感到很安全，但现在我觉得我有一定的自信和自我意识，让我比以前更好地度过这一天。
You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you -- your own choices -- what you get from others remains a present, a gift.
你不能期望别人做什么。是你，是你自己，是你自己，你必须对你自己提出很多要求。这样，你就可以决定——你自己的选择——你从别人那里得到的仍然是一份礼物，一份礼物。
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
自由不仅仅是随心所欲的机会;这也不仅仅是在既定的选择中进行选择的机会。首先，自由是形成可用选择的机会，是就这些选择进行辩论的机会，然后是做出选择的机会。
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
如果我们重视独立，如果我们被我们现有体系所诱导的知识、价值观和态度的日益一致所干扰，那么我们可能希望建立学习的条件，从而形成独特性、自我指导和自主学习。
I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
我有一些很棒的男性朋友。他们可以从迷恋开始。但当你意识到有些事情不会发生时，你就会做出一个选择，看看这份友谊是否值得。通常是这样的。然后你就可以嘲笑自己曾经迷恋过他或者他曾经迷恋过你。
One ship sails East, And another West, By the self-same winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That tells the way we go. Like the winds of the sea Are the waves of time, As we journey along through life, Tis the set of the soul, That determines the goal, And not the calm or the strife.
一艘船向东航行， 和另一个西方, 同样的风吹过， 这是张帆 不是大风， 告诉我们该怎么走。 就像海风吹过 是时间的波浪， 在人生旅途中， 这是灵魂的集合， 这决定了目标， 而不是平静或冲突。
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It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
我从来没有想过要成为一个动作女主角。
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
我们选择我们现在的态度。这是一个持续的选择。
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
骄傲常常伴随着力量，我们决不能认为正义是站在强者一边的。使用权力必须始终伴随着道德选择。
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
在选择开始的地方，天堂就结束了，纯真也就结束了，因为天堂就是没有任何选择的必要?
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由，就是让贫困成为他们的选择，说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
有时候你在生活中做出选择，有时候选择也会让你做出选择。