A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Freedom
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
这是自由。失去一切希望就是自由。
Our names were made for us in another century.
我们的名字是另一个世纪为我们而造的。
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
我不抱任何希望。我担心什么。我是免费的。
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
为了享受自由,我们必须控制自己。
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
自由是我们如何对待别人对我们做的事。
Better a bird in the hand than ten in the air.
一只鸟在手胜过十只鸟在空中。
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
反抗暴君就是服从上帝。
Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.
自由是肌肉……你必须锻炼它。
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
你挥拳的自由止于我的鼻子。
Freedom is within. Only God can give it to you.
自由是在。只有上帝才能给你。
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
暴政总是比自由更有组织。
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
自由是……写错字的权利。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
如果你喜欢,锁上你的图书馆;但是,没有一扇门,没有一把锁,没有一扇门闩,可以让我的思想自由。
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
凡属肉体的人,没有一个是自由的。
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
一个人在灵性的阶梯上爬得越高,他就会给别人更多的自由,并且对别人的意识状态给予更少的干涉。
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
只有一种自由配得上这个名字,那就是以我们自己的方式追求我们自己的利益,只要我们不企图剥夺别人的利益,或妨碍他们为获得这种利益所作的努力。
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens.
把你最好的祝福放在心里,看看会发生什么。
‘Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.’
“保留古老的土地,你那传奇的盛况!”她用沉默的嘴唇喊道。“给我你那疲倦的、可怜的、挤成一团渴望自由呼吸的群众,给我你那熙熙攘攘的岸边可怜的垃圾。把这些,无家可归的人,被暴风雨袭击的人,寄给我;我在金色的门边举起我的灯。”