A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Purpose
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
教育的目的是用开放的思想取代空虚的思想。
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
告诉我你注意什么,我就会告诉你你是谁。
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.
这是幸福;完全溶入伟大的事物中。
In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
为了取悦他人,我们放弃了对人生目标的把握。
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
艺术的目的是洗去我们灵魂中日常生活的尘埃。
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
我从来没有看到做了什么;我只看到需要做的事情。
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
生活在幸福的扩展中找到它的目的和实现。
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
教育的目的是用开放的思想取代空虚的思想。
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
当然,身份的价值在于,它常常伴随着目标而来。
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
友谊除了精神的深化,别无目的。
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
我们这个时代的问题是,它只是路标,没有目的地。
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
有目的的谎言是最糟糕的谎言之一,也是最有利可图的谎言。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If we have our own ‘why’ of life, we can bear almost any `how'.
如果我们有自己的“为什么”生活,我们几乎可以忍受任何“如何”。
I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
我在做我认为我来到这个世界上是要做的事。我真的很感激拥有我所热爱的东西,我认为这是非常重要的。
A useless life is an early death.
无益的生活等于早死。
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
让你的生活有意义的方法是全身心地去爱别人,全身心地投入到你周围的社区,全身心地去创造一些能给你目标和意义的东西。
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
有些人看到事情的本来面目,会说:“为什么?”我梦想着从未有过的事情,我说:“为什么不呢?”
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
不要把生命浪费在怀疑和恐惧中;把你自己花在你面前的工作上,充分肯定正确地履行这一小时的职责将是为随后的几个小时和几岁做好的最好准备。