A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
我们自己
Ourselves
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
让我们有方法地读书，并为自己提出一个研究的目标。阅读的作用是帮助我们思考。
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
我们都必须放下白马王子的情结，意识到他并不一定存在于我们假设他会出现的那一套中。
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
认识自己，是大家公认的最有用的学问;因此，给我们的第一课应该是关于这个问题的。
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。
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
我们对自己施加的阻止自己去爱的力量，往往比被爱之人最严厉的对待还要残酷。
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
说我们多么爱新朋友，以及我们对他们的看法很容易，但言语永远无法把我们与旧朋友之间的所有联系都说出来。
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
我们不应该回头看，除非是为了从过去的错误中汲取有用的教训，并从代价高昂的经验中获益。
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
意识本身就是目的。我们折磨自己到达某个地方，而当我们到达那里时却无处可去，因为我们无处可去。
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
我们的欲望总是使我们失望;因为虽然我们遇到了一些让我们满意的事情，但它从来没有完全满足我们的期望。
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
经过几个月的饥寒交迫，我们突然发现自己能吃上一顿神赐的美餐了。
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
无论我们多么有资格或值得拥有，我们永远不会过上更好的生活，除非我们自己能够想象它，并允许自己拥有它。
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
我们每个人来到世上都有能力把事情做好。如果我们没有尽我们所能地运用这种能力，我们就是在欺骗自己和这个世界。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
我们与他人分享的不再是我们自己的。
We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
我们一年出去六个星期。我们首先从墨西哥开始，做了这么多年，最后我们说我们必须探索并开始走向全球。然后我们开始环游世界。
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。
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
当一个人没有理由相信自己时，他相信运气。
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
我相信，我们对自己的选择完全负责，我们必须接受我们一生中每一个行为、言语和思想的后果。
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
我们平等地来到这个世界，也平等地离开这个世界。