A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
我们自己
Ourselves
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
为了治愈他人,我们首先需要治愈自己。为了治愈自己,我们需要知道如何对待自己。
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好,那不是很棒吗?
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
谁是最合适的人选?我们都创造了对方无法承受的局面,然后又因为对方无法承受而心碎。
We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
我们需要深入思考,我们是否能够支撑那些不仅大到不能倒,而且可能大到无法纾困的银行。
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.
我们常常试图改变环境来适应自己,而不是让它们改变我们,而这正是它们的本意。
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
想要谈论自己,想要表现出那些我们不介意看到的缺点,这构成了我们真诚的很大一部分。
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
在争论中,当我们感到愤怒的时候,我们已经停止了为真理而奋斗,而开始为自己而奋斗。
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
没有什么比获得利益的感觉更令人愉悦和吸引人的了。甚至没有收到礼物的满足感。
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
重要的是,无论我们是否有信仰,总的来说,我们对人们是非常宽容的,不管他们的观点是什么。
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
我们的思想、激情和由想象形成的思想,都不存在于头脑之外,这是每个人都允许的。
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
到了安息日的晚些时候,我们不进去把排练时唱的歌敲出来,而是把它们擦亮到死。
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
我们每个人都可以自己实践权利,不歧视地对待彼此,尊重彼此的尊严和权利。
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
在我们准备过高估计别人的时候,可能有一种恶意的成分——可以说,我们是在为自己积累一种乐趣,以便以后把他们的身材缩小。
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
我们的环境,我们生活和工作的世界,是我们态度和期望的一面镜子。
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
我们的敌人是我们的恶行和他们的记忆、我们的骄傲、我们的自私、我们的恶意、我们的激情,这些都是我们的良知或习惯无情地追逐着我们,无情地超越了形象所能表达的力量。
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
如果我们不改变,我们就不会成长。如果我们不成长,我们就没有真正的生活。
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
与其说它是我们模仿别人的榜样,不如说它是我们自己在别人眼中的反映,是我们自己在他们话语中的反映。
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
我们的同情与遥远的苦难毫无关系。