A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
只有在事情发生之后,人们才会说它是不可避免的。
Regard this day’s life as yours, but all else as Fortune’s.
把今天的生活看作是你的,把其他一切都看作是命运的安排。
Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it.
生命是珍贵的财产……这是一个人如何看待它。
The shade of the same tree, the flowing of the same stream.
同一棵树的影子,同一条小溪的流水。
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
宿命论是懒惰的人接受不可避免的事情的方式。
It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.
没关系。重要的是你即将死去。
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
不要悲伤。你失去的任何东西都会以另一种形式出现。
Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.
时间可以磨平石头,但时间永远不会把它磨掉。
Ah, what avails the sceptred race! Ah, what the form divine!
啊,权杖族有什么用!啊,多么神圣的形体!
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.
即使罂粟生长,我们也不会睡觉:在佛兰德斯的田野里。
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
多年来,我遗传的关节炎给我带来了很多问题。
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
天地!身体是如何连在一起却从未相遇?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Hope could betray you but if you had no hope, life could actually surprise you in the best of ways.
希望可能背叛你,但如果你没有希望,生活其实可以用最好的方式给你惊喜。
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
让你自己适应命运所安排的事情,真诚地去爱那些命中注定你将与之生活在一起的人。
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。
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
大自然在起作用。性格和命运是她的杰作。她给予我们爱与恨、嫉妒与崇敬。我们所拥有的一切就是选择我们将追随哪一种冲动的力量。
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。
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。