A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生活
Life
从日常选择、人与人的相处，到面对变化时的态度，这些句子记录了不同的人对生活的理解。读英文原句，再对照中文，留意那些与你的经历相呼应的表达。
If you would create something, you must be something.
如果你想创造某种东西，你就必须成为某种东西。
If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
如果我没有工作，我就没有生活。
I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.
我过着我能过的最好的生活。
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
我喜欢打乒乓球，花时间和我的孩子们在一起。
If life ain't just a joke, then why are we laughing ?
如果生活不只是一个笑话，那我们为什么要笑?
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
有时候我觉得我的生命只是漫长的一天。
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
你们要切慕死，就必得生。
There are no days more full than those we go back to.
再没有比我们回到过去的日子更充实的了。
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
阅读是过上美好生活的基本工具。
I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.
我认为生活充实的女性是更好的母亲。
But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
但我在审视生活，我没有拖延任何事情。
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
生活本身就是最精彩的童话。
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
教育是一个社会过程。教育是成长。教育不是为生活做准备；教育就是生活本身。
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.
判断使我们无法理解新的真理。把自己从旧的判断规则中解放出来，为新的理解创造空间。
The first rule of focus is this: Wherever you are, be there.
专注的第一条原则是:无论你在哪里，都要在那里。
Sitting and listening to a clock tick is not a waste of time, but rather an appreciation of it.
坐着听时钟滴答作响不是浪费时间，而是对它的一种欣赏。
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
我们可以说，这种生活是值得过的，因为它是我们创造出来的。