A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
目
Purpose
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
渡渡鸟从来没有机会。他被创造出来的唯一目的似乎就是灭绝，而这正是他所擅长的。
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
把你的生活完全集中在赚钱上，表明你缺乏雄心壮志。它对你的要求太少了。它会让你不满足。
The purpose of life is to live it to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
生活的目的就是去体验生活，最大限度地去体验，热切地去接触，而不畏惧更新更丰富的体验。
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
一场辩论只有一个目的，唯一的目的，那就是促进两位候选人之间直接的思想交流，仅此而已。
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
研究表明，这些孩子更容易受到广告的影响，甚至不太可能理解广告的目的。
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
你问:生命的意义或目的是什么?我只能用另一个问题来回答:你认为我们有足够的智慧来读懂上帝的心思吗?
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
我心里知道那个人是好人。正义终将胜利。每个人的生活都有目标和价值。
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
我们的发明往往是漂亮的玩具，分散我们的注意力从严肃的事情。它们只是改进的手段，以达到未改进的目的。
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
我只是一个人，但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事，但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
希望的能力是生活中最重要的事实。它为人类提供了一种目标感和开始行动的能量。
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.
不断地追求生活的目标是人类奇怪的逃避之一。如果他找到了他要找的东西，那么路上的那块鹅卵石就不值了。
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
使第十四条修正案产生的目的是在法律面前人人平等，而平等，而不是分离，被写进了法律。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。
The purpose of life is a life with a purpose, so I'd rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless.
生活的目的是有目的的生活，所以我宁愿为事业而死，也不愿过没有价值的生活。
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
为某件事工作，不仅因为它有成功的机会，还因为它是好的。
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
不断地开始和失败。每次你失败了，重新开始，你会变得更强大，直到你完成一个目标——也许不是你开始时的那个，而是一个你会很高兴记住的目标。
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
我相信人的尊严是国家目标的源泉，人的自由是国家行动的源泉，人的心灵是国家同情的源泉，人的思想是我们发明和思想的源泉
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
人生的目的，是过有目标、有意义的生活。