A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诚信/个性
Integrity/Individuality
My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.
我的幸福与我丈夫、老板或孩子们的行为无关。你可以控制自己的行为,自己的幸福。
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
有了勇气,你将敢于冒险,有力量去同情,有智慧去谦卑。勇气是正直的基础。
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
衡量一个人的最终标准不是他在舒适和方便的时刻所处的位置,而是他在挑战和争议的时刻所处的位置。
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
只有当一个人能够超越他个人主义所关心的狭窄范围,进入全人类所关心的更广泛的问题时,他才开始生活。
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
当你的朋友要求你对他们诚实时,不要相信他们。他们真正想要的是保持对自己的好感。
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
真正被爱,是最大的例外。绝大多数人只爱他们借给他的东西,他们自己,他们自己的版本的他。
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
与你的朋友,你每天见到的大多数人的主流思想背道而驰,也许是你能做的最困难的英雄行为。
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。
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
个子高是一个优势,尤其是在商业领域。人们会永远记住你。如果你在人群中,你总能呼吸到一些干净的空气。
We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.
我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套。一个口袋里有灰尘,另一个口袋里有金子。我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套来提醒我们是谁。
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
如果我们想重新发现自己,活出真实的自己,我们需要找到勇气对那些对我们无益的人和事说不。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
沟通是一种持续的平衡行为,在亲密和独立的需求之间平衡。为了在这个世界上生存,我们必须与他人合作,但是为了作为我们自己而生存,而不仅仅是作为一个齿轮上的齿轮,我们必须独自行动。
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
我想我们可以通过某种方式了解自己,然后接受这个决定。
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
永远记住你是独一无二的。就像其他人一样。
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。
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 someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
如果你生命中的某个人用你对自己说话的方式对你说话,你早就离开他们了。