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Acceptance
That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
这就是信仰的定义——接受我们认为是真实的东西，接受我们无法证明的东西。
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
如果你不情愿地背起十字架，你就使它成为一种负担，使你自己更加沉重;但你必须忍受。
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
但我的后半段已经没有了，没有什么可以让我完整。它的存在。我已经全部。
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
大多数试炼的主要痛苦与其说是实际的痛苦本身，不如说是我们自己对痛苦的抵抗精神。
"Okay, I have arthritis, and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.
“好吧，我有关节炎，关节炎就是这样的。”既来之，则安之。
One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
没有痛苦，一个人无法度过一生。我们能做的就是选择如何利用生活带给我们的痛苦。
The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.
最美的是事情的必然性，最丑陋的是试图抗拒必然性。
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
神不问人是否愿意接受生命。这不是我们的选择。你必须接受它。唯一的问题是如何做到这一点。
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
生活中我们真正接受的每件事都会经历一个变化。所以痛苦必须变成爱。这是一个谜。
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
一个人在监狱里学到的许多教训之一是，事情本来就是这样，将来也会是这样。
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
我们不能征服命运和必然性，但我们可以以一种比我们所能做的更伟大的方式屈服于它们。
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief; your time for joy will come, believe me.
如果生活欺骗了你，不要悲伤，不要生气!屈服于你的悲伤;相信我，你快乐的时光终将来临。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
爱只是降临在你身上的，是命运为你编织的。
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
当我们下定决心接受这个世界，包括荆棘，我们就赢得了一半的胜利。
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
适者生存是亘古不变的自然规律，但适者生存的往往不是强者。适者生存的人是那些具有适应能力的人，他们有能力接受不可避免的事情，顺应不可避免的事情，并与现有或正在变化的条件相协调。
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
人类是唯一会笑会哭的动物;因为他是唯一被事物的本来面目和现在的本来面目之间的差别所打动的动物。
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
生与死都无法治愈，只有享受这段时间。
A hero is a man who does what he can.
英雄是做他能做的事的人。