A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desires
Be clear with your desires.
明确你的愿望。
Our visions begin with our desires.
我们的愿景始于我们的欲望。
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
如果你想要保证,买一个烤面包机。
The more one has, the less one desires.
一个人拥有的越多,他的欲望就越少。
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
致富的捷径就是减少我们的欲望。
Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac.
知道某人想要你是最好的春药。
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
只有有欲望的人才是和蔼可亲的,而不是心满意足的人。
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
能一次克服欲望的人,就能永远克服欲望。
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
渴望超越理智的知识分子。
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
愚蠢使人的欲望膨胀,却使人的能力下降。
To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.
要表达你内心的渴望,你必须成为你内心渴望的人。
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
愤怒是我们思想的屈服,而不是欲望的屈服。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
如果心所赞同的符合适当的模式,那么即使一个人的欲望很多,它们对良好的秩序又有什么害处呢?
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
如果人们不想去球场,没人能阻止他们。
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
几乎我们所有的欲望,当被审视时,都包含着一些羞于启齿的东西。
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
既然每个人都渴望幸福,那么很明显,他对幸福的设想是工作还是享受都不是小事。
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
通过削减我们的欲望来满足我们的需求,这种坚忍的计划就像当我们想要鞋子的时候砍掉我们的脚一样。
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
我不相信悲观主义。如果某件事没有以你想要的方式出现,勇往直前。如果你认为会下雨,就会下雨。