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。
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
快乐——如果你甚至都不快乐，那么生存有什么好处呢?
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
在大多数人的生活中，都有一个没有回头的时候，没有被注意到。
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
脆弱是创新、创造和变革的发源地。
Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
一切都发生在我身上。我一生中从未有过一丝好运。
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
我一生都在讲故事，但直到最近才意识到这一点。
Baby steps can be precursors of miracles & lead to monumental change.
婴儿的每一步都可能是奇迹的先兆，并导致巨大的改变。
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
人生是一连串的教训，只有经历过才会懂得。
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
我们对生活的了解不仅来自于正面的东西，也来自于负面的东西。
We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.
我们过着奇怪的生活，到处追逐着我们的梦想。
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
生活意味着相信和希望——欺骗和欺骗自己。
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
工作是人生真正的长生不老药。最忙的人是最幸福的人。
Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
因为它似乎太简单，接受生活是一种信仰的行为。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
你感受到的幸福与你付出的爱成正比。
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
一个人，作为一个身体上的存在，总是朝向外部，认为他的幸福就在他的外部，最后转向内心，发现源头就在他的内心。
Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
即使我们追求完美，生活也不过是通过一系列或大或小的不完美来实现的。
You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you.
你可以在很长一段时间里都不知道自己是什么样的人，也不知道你的生活将把你引向何方。
The only real failure in life is when you decide to give up.
生活中唯一真正的失败是当你决定放弃的时候。
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
你生活的幸福取决于你的思想的质量。因此，你要相应地小心谨慎，不要怀有任何与美德和理性本性不相称的观念。