A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
命运牵着有意愿的人,拖着不愿意的人。
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
万事都是在预定的时候,渐渐来到的。
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
和大多数痛苦一样,它开始于明显的幸福。
You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.
你的一生经历了一系列的高峰和低谷。
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
时间是阻止一切同时发生的东西。
When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.
当上帝决定它的时间,我想他会来为我们。
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
行动是命运的种子,行动孕育命运。
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
环境规则的男人;人不能左右环境。
I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.
我和那些我发誓能预知未来的人交谈过。
Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
命运是一个你没有努力去改变的未来。
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
做正确的事并不能保证不遭遇不幸。
The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair.
生存的秘诀是在希望和绝望之间找到平衡。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
我们必须想办法在我们自己的生活中成为一股积极的力量。我们必须掌握自己的命运,设计一种有意义的生活,真正开始实现我们的梦想。
To grow older is to realize the universe is Copernican, not Ptolemaic, and that self and the loved one do not form the epicenter of the solar system.
变老意味着意识到宇宙是哥白尼式的,而不是托勒密式的,而自我和所爱的人并不构成太阳系的中心。
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
收割的法则,就是要收的比种的多。种下一种行为,你就会收获一种习惯。播种习惯,收获性格。播种一种性格,收获一种命运。
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
据说,没有一棵树能长到天堂,除非它的根能深入地狱。
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
命运选择我们的亲戚,我们选择我们的朋友。
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
有一种无法逃避的依恋。如果你出生在某个地方,而环境并没有把你带离它,那么你就会在其中成长并停留。