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意义
Meaning
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
如果你能写出有意义、有情感的好歌，它们就会经久不衰，因为歌曲是开启一切的钥匙。歌曲会比艺术家更经久不衰，如果它们好，就会永远流传下去。
Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
我们认为重要的东西大多不是物质，无论是音乐、情感还是爱情。它们是我们看不见摸不着的东西。它们不是物质，但它们对我们至关重要。
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
让你的生活有意义的方法是全身心地去爱别人，全身心地投入到你周围的社区，全身心地去创造一些能给你目标和意义的东西。
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
感知心灵的统一性的意义是什么?在感知的特殊变化中，它不是感知一颗星星，而是一棵树，还有那棵树本身，这是哲学的一个问题。
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
对于任何主要关注意义的文化来说，对死亡的研究——生命对我们来说唯一的确定性——必须是核心，因为理解死亡是生命解放的关键。
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
两千年前，在这个地球上，有一个人过着迄今为止最伟大的生活——每一个有思想的人，不论其意义是深是浅，都一致认为这种生活是神圣的。
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
我没有足够的政治背景来写关于我自己的文章或参加鸡尾酒会，这意味着我的艺术不仅被盗版，我的知识产权被窃取，我的作品也被歪曲了。
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
但如果莎士比亚自己是关于意义和真理的，我不知道，那么他肯定是关于快乐和兴趣的，我们从快乐和兴趣开始，但也许最终会到达意义和真理。
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
在生活中，有时会有一些难以言表的满足，无法完全用那些被称为文字的符号来解释。它们的意义只能由心的语言表达出来。
Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed.
塔罗牌告诉我们存在于我们所有人身上的不同个性的不同方面。我发现他们将名字、图像和数字组合在一起的方式非常有趣。你不需要读懂它们，也不需要知道它们的真正含义，就能被它们迷住。
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
这个观察的意义尚不清楚，但它提出了一个不幸的可能性，模棱两可的三胞胎;也就是说，三胞胎可以编码不止一个氨基酸。然而，人们肯定会认为这样的三胞胎只占少数。
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
事实上，当我开始做这个生意的时候，并不是因为我完全理解这个生意的重要性，而是因为我觉得它很有趣。我发现它令人兴奋。它满足了我，不管我在寻找什么。
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
这不是我们得到的。但我们是谁，我们贡献了什么……这赋予了我们生活的意义。
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。
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
那些能无缘无故大笑的人，要么找到了幸福的真谛，要么已经完全疯了。
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
你知道晚上回家对一个会给你一点爱，一点感情，一点温柔的女人意味着什么吗?这意味着你在错误的房子里，这就是它的意思。
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
一个人如果意识到自己对一个深情地等待着他的人所承担的责任，或者意识到自己对一项尚未完成的工作所承担的责任，他就永远不能抛弃自己的生命。他知道他的存在的“为什么”，并将能够忍受几乎任何“如何”。
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。