A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
我们自己
Ourselves
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
在第一次世界大战的帐簿上，记录俄国损失的那一页被撕掉了。具体数字不详。五百万，还是八百万?我们自己也不知道。
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
我们所看见的，不是极近处的一个小斑点，能涂抹世界的荣耀，只留下我们看见那斑点的余地吗?我不知道有什么比自我更麻烦的了。
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
我们有理由实施良好的道德，因为它们属于全人类;但我们没有理由强迫别人遵守良好的礼仪，因为良好的礼仪总是意味着我们自己的礼仪。
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。
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
在我看来，我们永远不能放弃渴望和希望，而我们彻底活着。有些事情我们觉得是美好的，我们必须渴望它们。
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
神要救赎我们本性中最深的部分——爱和被爱的冲动——必须以一种不可思议和不可能的方式来揭示他的本性。他必须在十字架上把它显露出来。
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
因为大都市向我们展示了一些特殊的条件，这些条件是发展这两种分配男性角色的方式的机会和刺激因素。
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
当我们的主说，我们必须悔改，成为小孩子的时候，我想他的意思也是，我们必须意识到我们的软弱，相对来说，就像小孩子一样。
If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
如果我们自身存在缺陷，那么我们的任务就不是重新设计，而是更新和重申，特别是我们所有人都相信的标准。
One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
有一天，妈妈和我谈到结婚，我说我很高兴当你不喜欢结婚，或者厌倦了你的丈夫，你可以结婚。
It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
给自己留点时间是可以的。我们把自己的很多给了别人，我们需要身体上和精神上都充满能量。如果我们处于平衡状态，它会在所有的互动中帮助我们。
One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.
我们最困难的认识之一是，在两年的时间里，圣路易斯的一个连接中心从我们认为我们需要的东西变成了我们再也负担不起的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
我们这些正在下沉的中产阶级，也许无需进一步挣扎就能进入我们所属的工人阶级，或许当我们到达那里时，情况不会像我们担心的那么可怕，因为毕竟我们没有什么可失去的。
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。
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
我不会离开推特。如果没有头脑的少数人打败了有思想的大多数人，我们都将难逃厄运。
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。
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 don't pretend to disagree.
我们不会假装不同意。