Reason is also choice.
理性也是一种选择。
A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choosing
Life is the sum of all your choices.
生活是你所有选择的总和。
I can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑，我什么都能抵抗。
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
爱是你每时每刻的选择。
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
礼貌是在你的思想中进行选择的艺术。
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
决定是一种根植于自由勇气中的风险。
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
你永远不会因为爱而失败。你总是因为退缩而失败。
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
明智的人做决定很慢，但会遵守这些决定。
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
要成为一个英雄或女英雄，必须给自己一个命令。
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
选择善与恶的能力是每个人都能做到的。
Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
选择你想做什么，什么时候做，是一种创造的行为。
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
我们做的每一个决定，采取的每一个行动，都是出于一个意图。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
通往智慧和学习的大门永远是敞开的，我越来越多地选择从中走过。障碍、阻碍、障碍和问题是我个人的老师，给了我走出过去，进入全部可能性的机会。
Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
选择去剧院是我和其他人一起在某个地方扎根的一种方式。这是一种选择新家庭的方式。
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
衡量一个人的最终标准不是他在舒适和方便的时刻所处的位置，而是他在挑战和争议的时刻所处的位置。
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
当你对一段关系做出承诺时，你会投入更多的注意力和精力，因为你现在拥有了这段关系。
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。
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。
A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT
给此刻的你，一点向前的力量。
关于学习、善意与成长，读一句，再想一想。
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
一个名副其实的艺术家的良心就像一种不治之症，给他带来无尽的折磨，但偶尔也会让他充满无言的喜悦。
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
回忆，即使是艰难的回忆，随着年龄的增长也会变得像桃子一样柔软。
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
随你怎么说，被留下总比从未被爱过要好。