A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
天堂
Heaven
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
我觉得除了相信人类的善良，我不需要其他信仰。我是如此专注于地球的奇迹和它上面的生命，我不能想到天堂和天使。
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
我自己从来没有被白色婚礼的梦想所吸引，而且，上帝保佑我们，我期待着这个精心安排的婚礼应该是一个人一生中“最幸福的时刻”。
I know how far away Heaven is, all right, but I know the shortcuts. You just die, God willing, when you want to, not when He arranges it. Or if you want you can make Him arrange it earlier.
我知道天堂有多远，但我知道捷径。你只是死了，上帝愿意，当你想死的时候，而不是他安排的时候。如果你愿意，你也可以让他早点安排。
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
但是假设上帝是黑人呢?如果我们升入天堂，我们一生都把黑人当作下等人对待，而上帝就在那里，我们抬头一看，发现他不是白人，那该怎么办?那么我们的反应是什么呢?
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
永不枯竭的善良天性是上天赐予我们的最珍贵的礼物之一，它像油一样在纷乱的思想海洋上喷薄欲出，在最恶劣的天气里也能保持头脑的平静。
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
对确保我们的价值观念在某些客观的天堂是永恒和安全的渴望，也许只是对童年的确定性或我们原始过去的绝对价值观念的渴望。
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
我不相信有来世，所以我不用一辈子怕地狱，更不用怕天堂了。不管地狱有多折磨人，我想天堂的无聊会更糟。
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
很少有国家穷到只有一个上帝。神是如此容易造出来的，原料成本又如此之低，以致神的市场一般都相当饱和，天堂里挤满了这些幽灵。
Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved— The Site—of it—by Architect Could not again be proved— 'Tis vast—as our Capacity— As fair—as our idea— To Him of adequate desire No further 'tis, than Here—
心有多远，天就有多远 那是心灵的溶解 由建筑师设计的场地 不能再被证明—— 这是广大的-作为我们的能力- 和我们的想法一样公平 给他足够的渴望 没有比这儿更远的地方了
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
心灵与自然、与启示、与上帝、与自身的自由交流被切断了，它也就失去了生命，正如身体被空气和来自天堂的欢呼之光所阻隔时，它也会垂头丧气。
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
当一个人着手创造某样东西时，他就建立了一个新的天堂，可以说，他想要创造的东西就从天堂流向了他……因为人的境界如此广大，甚至超过天地。
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
我的生命在结束之前已经关闭了两次; 这还有待观察 如果永生公布 第三件事， 如此巨大，如此难以想象， 就像这两次一样。 离别是我们对天堂的全部认知， 我们只需要地狱。
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
音乐是上帝赐予人类的礼物，是上天赐予人间的唯一艺术，是我们带到天堂的唯一艺术。
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
要欣赏天堂，一个人在地狱里呆上十五分钟是有好处的。
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
当我调查发现，当我发现天堂和行星的力量就在我们的内心时，我真的好像生活在众神之中。
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
与自己的灵魂和平相处，那么天地也将与你和平相处。
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
去天堂是为了气候，去地狱是为了公司。