A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Destiny
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
理想就像星星,你不可能用你的双手触摸到它们,但是你就像大海上的航海家,你选择它们作为你的向导,跟随它们,你就会到达你的命运。
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
只有一种东西能把史诗材料的困惑统一起来;也就是说,一种特殊的能力,能够看到人类的经历,人类命运的一些重要象征。
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
当我不开心的时候,我听到了一场歌剧……那仿佛是风的尖叫;当我快乐的时候,麻雀的啁啾对我来说是美味的。但使我快乐的不是啁啾,而是我使它甜蜜。
When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
当你成为神手中的工具,把一个人从黑暗的国度转移到他儿子的国度,你就改变了这个人永恒的命运。不仅如此,撒旦也受到了毁灭性的打击。
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
死亡的念头,对死亡的恐惧,在人类的动物身上是绝无仅有的;它是人类活动的一个主要动力- -主要是为了避免死亡的必然性,通过以某种方式否认死亡是人类的最终命运来克服死亡。
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
我认为,生活在没有那么多特权、机会或浮夸的文化中的人,对命运的运作有更多的尊重,以及人们发现自己所处的局限,而这些局限并不是他们自己的过错。
I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.
我一直认为自己很幸运,因为我没有太多的激情。只有一种追求是我真正热爱的,那就是写作。这就意味着,我从来不必去寻找我的命运,这是很方便的。我只需要服从它。
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
我们正面临着我们的命运,我们必须以崇高和坚定的勇气来迎接它。对我们来说,生命是行动的生命,是勤奋履行职责的生命;让我们生活在挽具里,奋力拼搏;让我们冒着磨损而不是生锈的危险吧。
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
巧合意味着你走对了路。
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
播种一种行为,收获一种习惯。播种习惯,收获性格。播种一种性格,收获一种命运。
You shape your own destiny.
你塑造自己的命运。
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
我们都被自己的命运束缚着,没有办法解放自己。
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
任何地方的不公正对任何地方的正义都是一种威胁。我们被困在一个不可逃避的相互联系的网络中,被命运的一件外衣所束缚。任何直接影响一个人的东西,都会间接地影响所有人。
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
运气会带来一些无人掌舵的船。