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Acceptance
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
我们可能会失去幸福,但我们会勇敢地去奋斗;但是如果我们用判断来衡量我们的机会和能力,我们就不太可能失败。
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
也许我们在减少恐惧方面能做的最重要的事情就是让人们更容易接受自己,喜欢自己。
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
在事情进行的时候,不要使你的灵魂烦恼;他们不理会你的烦恼。对生活中可能发生的任何事情感到惊讶是多么可笑和古怪。
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
任何想要行善的人,都不要指望别人会把石头从他面前滚开,而是要平静地接受他的命运,哪怕再多滚几块。
I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
我已经接受恐惧是生活的一部分,特别是对改变的恐惧……尽管我的心怦怦直跳,但我还是走了回去。
Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.
麻烦很快就会来的,当他来的时候,尽可能愉快地接待他……你越是亲切地问候他,他就越早走。
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
让你自己适应命运所安排的事情,真诚地去爱那些命中注定你将与之生活在一起的人。
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
在这个世界上,快乐而高效的人是那些把麻烦视为人类生活的一个正常细节,并决心在它来临时利用它的人。
It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
这是一个普遍的观察,那些不断地停留在他们的期望,往往会忘记他们的实际情况的要求。
When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.
当你对某人的无礼感到愤怒时,请立刻扪心自问,如果没有无礼的人,这个世界还能存在吗?它不能;所以不要要求不可能。
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。
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
我们必须接受生活的本来面目——这是对我们的品质的一种挑战,没有它,我们永远不应该知道我们是什么东西做成的,或者成长到我们的完整的身材。
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Don't ever change yourself to impress someone, because they should be impressed that you don't change to please others.
永远不要为了取悦别人而改变自己,因为你不应该为了取悦别人而改变自己。
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
大多数人过着平静而绝望的生活。
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。
A hero is a man who does what he can.
英雄是做他能做的事的人。
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。