A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
给
Giving
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。
The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.
阿谀奉承者是一个人的自我，所有微不足道的阿谀奉承者都有他的聪明才智。
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joy of others.
真正的善良是以想象他人的痛苦和快乐为前提的。
If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
我若不为自己，谁为我呢?如果我只为我自己，我是什么?如果不是现在，什么时候?
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.
我们爱别人，不是因为他们对我们做的好事，而是因为我们对他们做的好事。
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
上帝给了我们农夫两只强壮的手，这样我们就可以用这两只手尽可能多地抓东西。
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
我不认为自己在接受采访。我只是在聊天。这给我带来了麻烦。
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
我希望我能在你孤独的时候或在黑暗中向你展示你自己惊人的光芒。
Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
在财政方面，我非常保守。我不相信福利国家。我相信给人们工作。
If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.
如果我给你我的想法，你也给我你的，那么我们每个人都有两个想法，我们一起有四个。
Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.
化妆师总是把他们的东西给我。我最喜欢的是免费的东西。我要任何东西。
At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
起初，我给万物以能量，但后来万物似乎给了我能量。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
上帝给了我们两只手，一只用来接受，一只用来给予。
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
慷慨不是给我比你更需要的东西，而是给我你比我更需要的东西。
International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.
我们的朋友，国际捐助者应该要求取得成果;实施的结果。如果你把钱给诚实的人，而且没有管理这些钱的结构，那么给钱的事实是没有帮助的。这没有帮助。
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
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。