A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choosing
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
政治不是可能性的艺术。它包括在灾难和不愉快之间做出选择。
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
通过冥想，一次只专注于一件事，我们可以学会把注意力放在我们选择的地方。
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。
You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
你必须训练你的直觉——你必须相信你内心的小声音，它告诉你该说什么，该做什么决定。
Choose The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
选择 那只握紧的拳头举起来，准备好了， 或者那只张开的手伸出来等待着。 选择: 因为我们总有一个相遇。
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
愿意感到不舒服。不舒服就舒服。这可能会很艰难，但这是为实现梦想付出的小小代价。
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。
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
你不能让你的孩子做任何事。你所能做的就是让他们希望他们有。然后，他们会让你后悔你没有让他们后悔。
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。
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
只有在以本世纪为代表的那个时代，一个物种——人类——才获得了改变其世界本质的巨大力量。
The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
我们一生中最果断的行动——我的意思是那些最有可能决定我们整个未来道路的行动——往往没有得到考虑。
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。
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。
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
在两种罪恶中做出选择时，我总是喜欢尝试我从未尝试过的那一种。
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
把碗装满水，水就会溢出来。继续磨刀，它会钝的。
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。
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
宽恕是选择去爱。这是自我给予爱的第一种技巧。
I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
我根据压力因子来选择。如果不好玩，我就不做了。