A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
如果命运注定你要输，无论如何要和他好好打一场。
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
是步行者选择了这条路，还是选择了这条路?
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
世上无所谓偶然;这是命运的错名。
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
我是我命运的主人;我是我灵魂的船长。
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
命运之手已伸进人类的破布袋里。
Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
一个人的命运主要是由他自己塑造的。
Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it.
巧合将我们与未知联系在一起，并将我们编织在其中。
A lot had to go wrong for this evening to turn out right.
今晚要想有个好结果，就得走很多弯路。
He who plants fruit-trees, must not count upon the fruit.
栽种果树的，不可指望结果。
One cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
人不能与未来抗争。时间站在我们这边。
’Tis my destiny That you must either love, or I must die.
这是我的命运，你必须要么爱，要么我必须死。
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
梦想可以改变历史，歌曲可以改变命运。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
如果一个人不知道他是受必然性支配的，他就不能自由，因为他的自由总是在他从不完全成功地把自己从必然性中解放出来的努力中获得的。
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。
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。
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。
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
一切都将会改变。唯一的问题是成长还是衰退。