A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诚信/个性
Integrity/Individuality
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
人之所以为人，是必须充满精力、自我更新、自我恢复、自我反省、自我救赎;永远不要抛弃任何人。
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
这是一个悲伤的日子，当你发现不是意外、时间或运气，而是你自己让事情远离了你。
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
成功的六个关键要素:真诚、正直、谦逊、礼貌、智慧、慈善。
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。
One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.
我父母教给我的一件事是，永远不要让别人定义我，我也会永远感激这份礼物。
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
持不同政见者是每一个人在他生命中的那些时刻，当他暂时从群体中辞职，为自己考虑的时候。
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
知道你喜欢什么，而不是谦卑地说阿门，对世界告诉你应该喜欢什么，是保持你的灵魂活着。
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
我最大的错误，我不能原谅自己的错误，是有一天我停止了对自己个性的固执追求。
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
从最坚定的信念中说出的“不”比仅仅为了取悦而说的“是”更好、更大，或者更糟的是为了避免麻烦而说的“是”更好、更大。
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
要像太阳或大海一样仁慈，但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住，那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
一个人不能通过超越人类来接近神。成为一个人，就是这个人被创造出来的目的。
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
我的生活是一个不可分割的整体，我所有的态度都是相互冲突的;我对人类贪得无厌的爱使他们都得到了升华。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
雪崩时没有一片雪花会感到有责任。
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks -- we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.
我们内心深处的呼唤是成长为真正的自我，不管它是否符合我们应该成为的某种形象。当我们这样做的时候，我们不仅会找到每个人都在寻找的快乐，我们还会找到我们在世界上真正服务的道路。
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
我们都知道自己是独一无二的个体，但我们往往把他人视为群体的代表。
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。
Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
一个人的一切都可以被夺走，但是……人类最后的自由——在任何特定的情况下选择自己的态度，选择自己的道路。