A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诚信/个性
Integrity/Individuality
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
人际关系就是一切。 宇宙中的一切之所以存在,只是因为它是存在的 和其他一切的关系。没有任何事物是孤立存在的。 我们必须停止假装我们是可以独立完成任务的个体。
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
在这个世界上,跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中,我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
坚持自己;从不模仿。你自己的天赋,你可以用一生培养的力量,每时每刻呈现出来;但在另一个人的天赋中,你只有一种即席的、一半的占有。
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
创造性是没有人去过的地方。你必须离开舒适的城市,进入你直觉的荒野。你会发现什么将是美妙的。你会发现你自己。
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
虽然培育他人精神成长的行为具有培育自己的效果,但真爱的一个主要特征是始终保持和维护自己与他人的区别。
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
试图独自生活的人是不会成功的。他的心若不回答别人的心,就必枯干。如果他只听到自己思想的回声而没有发现其他灵感,他的大脑就会萎缩。
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
当我拿着铲子走进花园,挖了一张床,我感到如此的兴奋和健康,我发现我一直在欺骗自己,让别人为我做我本应该用自己的双手做的事情。
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
只有在尊重个体差异、容忍错误、沟通开放、规则灵活的氛围中,价值感才会蓬勃发展——这种氛围可以在一个养育子女的家庭中找到。
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
我想我们内心都有一个小小的声音在指引着我们。可能是上帝,我不知道。但我认为,如果我们把生活中所有的噪音和杂物都关在门外,倾听那个声音,它会告诉我们该做什么。
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
历史上最惨痛的教训之一是:如果我们被愚弄的时间足够长,我们往往会拒绝任何有关这种欺骗的证据。竹竿把我们捉住了。一旦你让一个骗子控制了你,你几乎永远不会再得到它。
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
道德上的懦弱使我们不敢说出自己的想法,这对这个国家来说就像不负责任的言论一样危险。正确的方法并不总是受欢迎和容易的方法。在不受欢迎的时候坚持正义是对道德品质的真正考验。
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
总有一天,我们的后代会觉得不可思议,我们如此关注皮肤中的黑色素含量、眼睛的形状或性别,而不是我们每个人作为复杂人类的独特身份。
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We are all something, but none of us are everything.
我们都是有价值的人,但没有一个人是万能的。
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
如果你不把自己的真实情况告诉别人,你就不能把别人的真实情况告诉别人。
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
奇怪的悖论是,当我接受自己本来的样子时,我就能改变。
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
但是,除了一个人与他所过的生活之间的简单和谐之外,还有什么是幸福呢?
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
个人是社会最核心、最稀有、最宝贵的资本资源。
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
然后,在没有意识到的情况下,你试着在新的一天开始的时候提高自己;当然,你在这段时间里取得了很大的成就。任何人都可以做到这一点,这是免费的,当然是非常有益的。谁不知道,就必须从经验中学习和发现,平静的良心使人坚强。