A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Giving
Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
每次我们相爱,每次我们付出,都是圣诞节。
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
人们并不反对你;他们只是为了他们自己。
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
自我牺牲比自我实现容易得多!
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
宽恕是生命的给予,也是生命的接受。
The ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself.
理想在你里面,障碍也在你里面。
I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.
我不会放弃演戏,我绝对不会停止。
The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
真正的专业人士的标志是付出多于收获。
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
许多人轻视财富,但很少有人知道如何把它送人。
Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them
提供建议;如果人们不听,让逆境来教训他们
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
所有艺术的本质都是在给予快乐中获得快乐。
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
你没有放弃的东西永远不会真正属于你。
The charitable give out the door and god puts in at the window.
行善的人施舍钱财,上帝却从窗户赐给他们。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness.
自利说着各种各样的语言,扮演着各种各样的角色,甚至是无私的角色。
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
重要的不是我们付出了多少,而是我们付出了多少爱。
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
我们为别人做的任何普通的帮助,或任何富有同情心的伸出援手,一开始似乎都不会有什么结果,但可能正在播下一颗我们现在看不到的种子。有时候,我们需要做的只是尽我们所能,然后相信一个我们无法设计或注定的展开。
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
一个人可以理解宇宙,但永远无法理解自我;自我比任何星星都遥远。
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."
我在什么地方见过一位慈善人士的墓志铭,这使我非常高兴。我记不得这句话了,但它的意思是:“我花了我失去了;我所拥有的留给别人;我所送出的东西还留在我身边。”