A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
意义
Meaning
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
愤怒引发愤怒,恐惧引发恐惧,不管我们的本意有多好。
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
理性是真理的自然秩序;但是想象力是意义的器官。
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
在某种程度上,当人们使用一个词时,他们的意思变成了它的意思。
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
如果没有悲伤来平衡“幸福”这个词,它将失去它的意义。
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of it's meaning.
我担心如果你对一件事看得太久,它就失去了所有的意义。
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
生命的意义在于发现你的天赋。生活的目的就是把它送给别人。
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
生活就像艺术。你必须努力保持它的简单和仍然有意义。
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
一首诗不需要有意义,就像自然界的大多数事物一样,往往没有意义。
I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.
我对自己的轻重缓急有了更成熟的认识。现在生活有了更多的意义。
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
我喜爱希望和勇气的主题,以及我们从苦难中找到意义的方式。
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
只有当一个人日复一日地用生命去换别的东西而不是生命本身时,生命才有意义。
Sometimes it's better to say nothing than to say something that means nothing anyways.
有时候什么都不说总比什么都不说要好。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
一个暴君的工具会多么奇怪地歪曲文字的意思!
Sometimes, you have to try not to care, no matter how much you do. Because, sometimes, you mean nothing to someone who means everything to you.
有时候,你不得不试着不去在乎,不管你做了多少。因为,有时候,你对一个对你来说很重要的人来说什么都不是。
Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.
生命只有在我们允许它存在的时候才有意义。我们每个人都有能力赋予生命意义,使我们的时间、我们的身体和我们的语言成为爱和希望的工具。
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。
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
这是人生真正的快乐,为一个你自己认为是伟大的目标而奋斗。
I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
当人们说某件事是真实的或不真实的,或正常的或不正常的时候,我有一个问题。对我来说,这些话的意思是非常私人和主观的。我一直很困惑,从来没有一个明确的理解这些词的意思。