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身份
Identity
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
我们今天的成就不过是我们昨天思想的总和。今天是昨天的思想带给你的今天，明天是今天的思想带给你的明天。
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
当你放弃国家权力时，你就放弃了自己的身份，这种想法毫无用处。不，实际上恰恰相反:如果以明智的方式来做，你就能获得与其他国家合作更好地解决国家问题的主权。
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
我丈夫有很强的认同感，在他的生活中很成功。感谢上帝。我没办法控制他。如果我觉得可以，我也不会和他结婚。我很容易把我的商业个性带回家。但他强迫我做合伙人而不是老板。
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
我把自己的声音和能力看作是上天赐予我的礼物。我觉得我甚至不能为此邀功，但它在我的生活中如此重要。这就是我的生活。这是我的身份，这是一切。它给了我很大的快乐和使命感——我无法想象没有它的生活。
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We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
我们已经爱上了肉体。就是那个从镜子里看着我们的东西。那是你一生都在追寻的可爱身份的宝库。
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
我父亲是谁并不重要;重要的是我记得他是谁。
We all have it in us. What we are is what we manage to get out of us.
我们每个人都有这种特质。我们是什么，我们就能从自己身上得到什么。
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事，然后他暴露了自己的身份，诗人想继续唱下去，尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。
If we decide too positively what we are, we will not be able to take advantage of what, at different times, we happen to be.
如果我们过于积极地决定自己是什么，我们就无法利用我们在不同时期碰巧是什么。
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
问题是，你倾向于回顾过去，找出错误，由于对错误感到很糟糕，你说你把这件事搞砸了，让我们离开这里。