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。
Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.
我们的不完美使我们独特，正如我们的优点一样。
It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.
放弃一生拥有的东西并不容易。
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
别人如何对待你是他们的因果报应;你的反应取决于你自己。
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
生活更像小说，而不是小说更像生活。
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
我申请了生活大学。没有拿到成绩。
Live from abundance; Utilize with economy; Share in advance.
从丰富生活; 利用与经济; 提前分享。
Participate in life instead of just watching it pass by you.
参与生活，而不是看着它从你身边溜走。
To make them realize this is my life I hope they understand.
为了让他们意识到这就是我的生活，我希望他们能理解。
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
我发现，如果你爱生活，生活也会爱你。
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。
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
旅途中有个好伙伴会使路途显得更短。
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
我过着无可指责的家庭生活，而且一直如此。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
经常开怀大笑;赢得聪明人的尊重和孩子们的喜爱…让世界变得更美好…要知道，即使只有一个生命因为你的存在而变得更轻松。这就是成功。
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西，无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变，是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服，保留你的思想。
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
对艺术的理解最终取决于一个人是否愿意扩展自己的人性和对人类生活的知识。
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
变化是生命的法则。那些只看过去或现在的人肯定会错过未来。
If you wait until all lights are green before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
如果你等到所有的灯都亮了才离开家，你永远也不会开始你的登顶之旅。
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
如果你失去了友谊，生活还剩下什么甜蜜?夺去生命的友谊就像夺去世界的阳光。真正的朋友比亲人更值得尊敬。