A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desire
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
这难道不是真正的浪漫吗?不是渴望逃避生活，而是阻止生活逃避你。
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
诚然，并不是所有的目标都如热心的倡导者所希望的那样已经实现，但已经迈出了第一步。
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
你可以想要，想要，想要，但是如果他不想要你回来……你不妨希望天空是红色的。
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
世人莫不怀着一种与生俱来的欲望，要把支出超过收入，此乃一切进步的动力。
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
嗯，我一直都有这种想要庆祝的欲望，并且在某种程度上成为我认为非常棒的事情的一部分。
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
幸福是你的天性。渴望它并没有错。错就错在内在而不在外在。
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
有两种方法可以获得足够。一是继续积累越来越多。另一个是减少欲望。
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
欲望!这是每个人职业生涯的一个秘密。不是教育。没有与生俱来的天赋。欲望。
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
生活必须有某种欲望才能保持运转，而那些真正的欲望得到满足的人，也必须承认那些幻想的欲望。
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
你们所愿的，过于我卑微的能力，我却倚靠那全能者的怜悯怜悯。
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
我曾经渴望很多很多的东西，但现在我只有一个愿望，那就是摆脱所有其他的欲望。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
First deserve, and then desire.
首先是应得，然后是欲望。
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。
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
突然间，我产生了一种强烈的欲望，想让自己置身于古典和浪漫艺术的氛围之中。
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
这么多年来，欲望超越了表现，这难道不奇怪吗?
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
如果不加控制，对神的饥渴就会成为一个障碍，切断灵魂与它所渴望的东西的联系。如果一个人想在这条神秘的道路上走得更远，他必须学会强烈地渴望上帝，但要保持安静，被动地，但要全心全意、全心全意、全力以赴。