A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
习惯
Habit
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
养成读书的习惯，就是为自己建造一个避难所，使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。
Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.
在过去的四年里，我养成了一个习惯，每天早上来到办公室，然后就开始工作。
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
快乐的习惯能使人从外部条件的支配中得到解放，或在很大程度上得到解放。
You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason.
你总爱在意想不到的地方出现，波特，而且你很少无缘无故地出现在那里。
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
我保证，养成打开计时器的习惯，会让你免于厨房里的许多灾难。
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
我们想象自己想要逃离自私和平庸的生活，但我们却拼命地抓住枷锁不放。
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
我们养成了在别人面前乔装打扮的习惯，以至于我们最终在自己面前乔装打扮起来。
Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
养成做好事的习惯不仅会影响我们周围的人，还会改善我们自己的情绪。
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
热血使年轻人经常改变他们的爱好，习惯使老年人保持他们的爱好很长一段时间。
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
任何一本书，只要能帮助孩子养成阅读的习惯，使阅读成为他内心深处持续不断的需求之一，对他都是有好处的。
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
习惯不会囚禁人。一旦危机被认识和理解，他身上的巨大变化就可以通过危机来实现。
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
探究的哲学精神可以追溯到野蛮的好奇心，也可以追溯到探究一切事物以寻找食物的习惯。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.
与自己保持良好的关系会让我们保持静止，但这并不意味着我们不会到处跑、跳、跳。这意味着没有强迫性。我们不会过度工作，过度饮食，过度吸烟，过度诱惑。简而言之，我们开始停止制造伤害。
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
改掉坏习惯的最好方法就是改掉它。
You shape your habits then they shape you for the rest of your life.
你的习惯塑造了你，它们也塑造了你的余生。
Habit is the nursery of errors.
习惯是错误的温床。
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
习惯是第二天性，它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心，自然本身只是第一个习惯，就像习惯是第二天性一样。
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
我们为什么要去想那些可爱的东西呢?因为思考决定生活。把生活归咎于环境是一种普遍的习惯。环境改变生命，但并不支配生命。灵魂比周围的环境更强大。