A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desire
Am I...your one and only desire...am I the reason you breathe...or am I the reason you cry?
我…你唯一的愿望…我是你呼吸的理由吗?还是我是你哭泣的原因?
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
知道自己想要什么是不正常的。这是一项罕见而艰难的心理成就。
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
人生就像一所医院，每个病人都有换床的欲望。
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
如果你没有得到你想要的一切，想想那些你没有得到你不想要的东西。
My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
我渴望被重视，这表现在与朋友和家人建立关系上。
Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
没有了欲望，你就会明白其中的奥秘。在欲望中，你只能看到表象。
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
当你的欲望足够强烈时，你就会表现出超人的能力去实现它。
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
人生有两大悲剧。一是失去心中的渴望。另一个是获得它。
There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.
只有一件事比不能满足欲望更糟糕。那就是没有任何欲望。
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
获得自由不是通过充分享受所渴望的，而是通过控制欲望。
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
对知识的渴望就像对财富的渴望一样，随着知识的获得而与日俱增。
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
生活应该是一场渴望冒险的斗争，这种冒险的崇高品质会滋养灵魂。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
City lights and business nights. When you require streetcar desire for higher heights.
城市灯光和商业之夜。当你需要有轨电车时想要更高的高度。
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
我们被强烈的赞美欲望所激励，一个人越优秀，他就越会受到荣誉的激励。就是哲学家自己，甚至在他们藐视荣耀所写的书上，也写上了他们的名字。
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
胜利不是一切，但渴望胜利才是。
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
欲望是一切成就的起点，不是希望，不是愿望，而是一种超越一切的强烈的脉动的欲望。
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
艺术是一个人表达自己的欲望，记录他的个性对他所生活的世界的反应。
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
我看不出人类的欲望有什么不对。事实上，我认为它是我们成功机制的组成部分。执着于我们所渴望的东西会带来麻烦。如果你必须拥有幸福，那么你就是在否认此时此地的幸福。