A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
目
Purpose
The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.
荒野是每个信徒都必须经历的地方，为了他们神圣的目的而被塑造。
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
每个小说家都有不同的目的，而且常常是几个相互矛盾的目的。
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
广播与小说的不同之处在于，即使是平庸的小说也需要目标，这是一个驱动性的问题。
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
无论我们生活的中心是什么，它都将是我们安全、指引、智慧和力量的源泉。
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
做一盏灯，或一艘救生艇，或一架梯子。帮助别人的灵魂痊愈。像个牧羊人一样走出家门。
I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.
我在这个星球上不是为了完成某件事——我们完成的事情是我们目标的表达。
I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
我发现这个世界上最伟大的事情不是我们站在哪里，而是我们朝哪个方向前进。
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
如果你走在正确的道路上，并且愿意继续走下去，最终你会取得进步。
Everyone has a different purpose in the world, and everyone's world differs in accordance with his purpose.
每个人在世界上都有不同的目的，每个人的世界都因他的目的而不同。
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn’t know where they’re going.
能力是一种狭隘的理想。能力使火车准时运行，却不知道开往哪里。
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
宣传者的目的是让一群人忘记某些人是人。
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
我们制造自己的不幸。痛苦的目的是帮助我们理解是我们自己造成了痛苦。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A useless life is an early death.
无益的生活等于早死。
If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
如果你有自己的风格和目标，你就不会妥协。
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。
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
如果我们对动物创造的经济只给予很少的关注，我们就会发现明显的预谋、毅力、决心和完善技巧的例子，以便达到它们的目的。
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
一个人如果意识到自己对一个深情地等待着他的人所承担的责任，或者意识到自己对一项尚未完成的工作所承担的责任，他就永远不能抛弃自己的生命。他知道他的存在的“为什么”，并将能够忍受几乎任何“如何”。
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
生命的意义在于发现你的天赋。生活的目的就是把它送给别人。