A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
现在
Present
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
我看到了未来，它很像现在，只是时间更长。
I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.
我很幸运，家里有一位慈爱的父亲。
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
领导者需要乐观。他们的视野超越了现在。
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
缺席者总是有缺点的。也不是没有借口的现在。
Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
有时候我觉得我活得更接近过去而不是现在。
The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
男人能给女人最好的礼物就是他的专注。
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
享受现在的快乐，不要伤害未来的快乐。
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
过去的就让它过去吧。未来是一个谜。这件礼物是一件礼物。
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
大使从未缺席过，但他从未缺席过。
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
过去是鬼，未来是梦，而我们所拥有的一切都是现在。
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
父爱是假装你最爱的礼物是系在绳子上的肥皂。
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
如果现在真的是我们所拥有的一切，那么现在就是永远。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
耶稣哭了。伏尔泰笑了。从那神圣的眼泪和人类的微笑中，产生了现代文明的优雅。
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
真正的幸福是……享受现在，而不是焦虑地依赖未来。
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
未来并不比现在更不确定。
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
我成了自己版本的乐观主义者。如果我不能通过一扇门，我会通过另一扇门——或者我要做一扇门。无论现在多么黑暗，可怕的事情总会发生。
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
我所热爱的是历史，而我对政治的兴趣只在于它是当下历史的横截面。
I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
我认为活在当下很重要，因为这样你就不会生活在后悔的状态中。