A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
我们自己
Ourselves
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
我们平时不称赞别人,而是为了被别人表扬自己。
If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
如果我们真的想向别人学习,我们必须决定完全服从。
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
我们越是想把自己从自我中解放出来,我们就陷得越深。
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
我们宁可说自己的坏话,也不愿完全不谈论自己。
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。
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
一个人知道的再多也不够。未知和它的召唤甚至存在于我们所知道的。
Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.
我们若在别人的事上忠心,就有资格领受自己的事。
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
当我们不能脱离自己的时候,我们就以吞噬自己为乐。
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
我们的本性几乎不允许我们拥有足够的东西而不拥有太多。
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
我们人生的事业不是超越别人,而是超越自己。
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
我们都在黑暗中行走,我们每个人都必须学会打开自己的灯。
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
没有所谓的“白手起家”的人。我们是由成千上万的人组成的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
关于宝血最引人注目的是,它在我们的经历中建立了爱和痛苦之间的纽带,这种纽带已经变得如此紧密,以至于我们开始认为,快乐地接受痛苦是爱的最真实的标志,无论它有多深。
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
我们在工作时间做什么决定了我们拥有什么;我们在闲暇时间做什么决定了我们是谁。
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 are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
我们生来就是为了生存,而不是为了了解、存在,也不是为了维护自己。
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
我们的诞生不过是死亡的开始,正如蜡烛一旦着了火就会熄灭。
We don't pretend to disagree.
我们不会假装不同意。