A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choosing
Reason is also choice.
理性也是一种选择。
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 more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
我们想的越多,与苹果相比,它们听起来就越无聊。当你是一个只有两个人的小公司时,你不需要有一个真正具体的理由来选择名字;你想取什么名字就取什么名字。
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。
In the end, it only comes down to one thing: choosing the one you can’t live without.
最后,一切都归结于一件事:选择一个你离不开的人。
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
当母亲成为一种深切渴望的结果,而不是无知或意外的结果时,她的孩子将成为一个新种族的基础。
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
如果我们想重新发现自己,活出真实的自己,我们需要找到勇气对那些对我们无益的人和事说不。
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
自我不是现成的东西,而是通过行动的选择而不断形成的东西。