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。
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
人生的成功不在于握一手好牌，而在于把一手坏牌打好。
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
禅不是某种刺激，而是专注于我们日常的生活。
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
人生就是一个关于我的故事。
Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
生活不会毁掉生活。死亡也不会。生与死不是非此即彼的。
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
你今天所做的事情很重要，因为你用一天的生命来交换它。
I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
我一生都在处理敏感问题。不想让别人难过。
Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
苦役征服了世界，无情的苦役，当生活艰难时，需要的是压榨。
If I were to come back in another life, I’d like to be reincarnated as my own clone.
如果我来生，我想投胎做我自己的克隆。
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
在人生的最初阶段，最大的危险是不去冒险。
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
经过的一切。没有人能永远得到任何东西。这就是我们的生活。
There's nothing in life you can't accomplish, it's yours to have to be accomplished!
生活中没有什么是你不能完成的，这是你必须完成的!
Make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.
让这一天成为一棵永远倚在河上的树，在它的枝桠上忙碌。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A soul gives power to the mind; and the mind empowers the soul.
灵魂赋予心灵力量;心灵赋予灵魂力量。
The present grows within the boundaries of the past.
现在生长在过去的边界之内。
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
幸福:一个好的银行存款，一个好的厨师和一个好的消化系统。
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
事情可能会更糟。你记得这些，然后继续你的生活。
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
生活的全部意义在于学会忍受我们所做的错误决定的后果。