A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诚信/个性
Integrity/Individuality
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'
骄傲使人自欺。但在普通良知的深处,一个平静、微弱的声音对我们说:“有些东西不对劲。”
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
没有自我认识,没有理解机器的工作和功能,人就不能自由,他就不能管理自己,他将永远是一个奴隶。
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has .
无论你多大年纪,或者你的环境如何,你都是特别的,你仍然可以提供一些独特的东西。你的生活,因为你是谁,已经。
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
只有通过与他人的联系,我们才能真正了解并提升自我。只有通过自我的努力,我们才能开始增强与他人的联系。
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。
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
无论你多大年纪,或者你的环境如何,你都是特别的,你仍然可以提供一些独特的东西。你的生活,因为你是谁,才有意义。
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
尊重孩子。等着瞧大自然的新产品吧。大自然喜欢类比,但不喜欢重复。尊重孩子。不要太像他的父母。不要打扰他的孤独。
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime. . .
在我看来,在人生的绚丽多姿中,真正有价值的不是国家,而是有创造力、有知觉的个体、有个性的人;它独自创造了崇高和崇高……
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
我想让我内心的真实成为我对生活的选择的准绳——关于我所做的工作和我如何做它,关于我所建立的关系和我如何处理它们。
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
如果你不善于爱自己,你将很难去爱任何人,因为你会怨恨你给别人的时间和精力,而你甚至没有给自己。
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
三流的头脑只有和大多数人一起思考时才会感到快乐。二流的头脑只有在与少数人一起思考时才会感到快乐。第一流的头脑只有在思考的时候才是幸福的。
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
英雄是在世界上点燃一盏明灯的人,他在黑暗的人生道路上支起熊熊燃烧的火把,让人们看得见。圣人是那些走在世界黑暗道路上的人,他自己就是一盏明灯。
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
个性是政治自由的目标。通过给予公民与秩序和他人权利相适应的行动自由和生存自由,这些制度使他成为真正的自由人。他可以用自己的方式追求自己的幸福。
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
每个人都有自己的天职;他的才能是他的使命。只有一个方向,所有的空间对他都是开放的。
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进,那就是你自己。
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。
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
我希望我能在你孤独的时候或在黑暗中向你展示你自己惊人的光芒。