A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desire
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.
一种欲望在心中升起。它立刻满足于另一个到来。在分离两种欲望的间隙里，一种完全平静的心境支配着我们的心灵。在这一刻，它从所有的思想、爱或恨中解脱出来。
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
如果你想要纯洁，要有坚定的信仰，慢慢地进行虔诚的修行，不要把精力浪费在无用的圣经讨论和争论上。否则你的小脑袋就会乱成一团。
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
你想变得伟大吗?然后从存在开始。你想要建造一个巨大而崇高的结构吗?首先想想谦逊的基础。你的结构越高，它的基础就必须越深。
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。
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
有一种让每个人都分得一杯羹的愿望，我们可能在浪费大量的国土安全资金试图在政治上正确，而我们真正需要的是确保我们的城市得到他们需要的资金。
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
瓦萨高级阶级的大多数人不愿与我为伍，我必须承认，在阅读了他们思想和情感的样本之后，我不愿与瓦萨高级阶级的大多数人为伍。
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
然而，正是在这种孤独中，最深刻的活动才开始。正是在这里，你发现了没有运动的行动，那是深沉的休息的劳动，在朦胧中看到的远景，以及超越所有欲望的满足，它的极限延伸到无限。
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
因此，欲望是欲望对整个自我的入侵，当它入侵时，会导致越来越多的心理过程;但与此同时，只要欲望还在，就不能成功地占有自我。
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
我在此明确和强调地声明，我认为自己，并热切希望别人认为，在我现在和今后的生活中，我完全剥夺了封建专制制度的野蛮遗物的任何这种权利。
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
一种欲望在心中升起。它立刻满足于另一个到来。在分离两种欲望的间隙里，一种完全平静的心境支配着我们的心灵。在这一刻，它从所有的思想、爱或恨中解脱出来。完全的和平同样统治着两个精神波之间。
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。
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。
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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。
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
我们渴望并珍视的勇气，不是体面地死去的勇气，而是勇敢地活下去的勇气。
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
说谎者和被说谎者一样，都有不被欺骗的欲望。
Always desire to learn something useful.
总是渴望学习一些有用的东西。
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。