A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诚信/个性
Integrity/Individuality
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
不要让自己被任何感情所束缚。保持你的孤独。如果真有那么一天,当你得到真爱的时候,你内心的孤独和友谊之间就不会有对立,反之亦然。即使是这个绝对正确的信号,你也会认出它来。
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.
我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道,书籍影响着个人;个人,虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分,影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。
There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe... At every crossing of the threads there is an individual. And every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects Not only the light from every other crystal in the net But also every other reflection Throughout the entire universe.
宇宙中有无数的丝线…… 每条线的交叉处都有一个独立的点。 每个人都是一颗水晶珠。 每颗水晶珠都会反射 不仅是网中其他晶体发出的光 还有其他的反射 整个宇宙。
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。
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
没有规定的解决方案,没有针对重大问题的宏大设计。生活的解决之道就在于那些涉及到越来越多敢于创造自己的生活和艺术的个人的细小细节,敢于倾听他们内心最深处、最原始的、甚至更深层次的声音——地球内部的声音。
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
如果建筑师想要加固一个破旧的拱门,他们会增加施加在上面的荷载,因为这样各个部分就能更牢固地连接在一起。因此,如果治疗师希望培养他们的病人的心理健康,他们不应该害怕通过对人生意义的重新定位而增加这种负担。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
我们都有自己的生活要追求,都有自己的梦想要编织。我们都有能力让愿望成真,只要我们继续相信。
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
当我们成长为独一无二的人时,我们学会尊重他人的独特性。
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
聪明的人不值得花时间占多数。根据定义,已经有足够多的人这样做了。
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
人类历史的整个进程可能取决于一个孤独的、甚至是卑微的人改变心意- -因为正是在这个孤独的人的思想和灵魂中进行了正义与邪恶的斗争,并最终取得了胜利或失败。
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
如果一个人跟不上他的同伴,也许是因为他听到了不同的鼓声。让他随着他所听到的音乐迈步前进,不管他是多么的有分寸,多么的遥远。