A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
人的本性在一天之内是不会改变的。
I was born without you so obviously I don't need you to survive!
我生来就没有你,所以我不需要你来生存!
For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
因为人的生命只有一个入口,类似的东西也只有一个出口。
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
没有什么值得为之而活,除非它值得为之而死。
Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of chance below.
在他那改变了的灵魂里,循环着下面各种各样的机会。
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
墨西哥更多的是被神话和原型所征服。
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
人的生命不是给谁的,乃是给谁的。
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
人不能决定命运,命运只能一时造就人。
No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
没有人曾经,也永远不会在地球上走完全相同的道路。
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
一个人常常在逃避命运的路上遇到自己的命运。
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
没有什么比战争更容易受到命运无常的影响。
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
我们是掌握了自己命运的明星。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
行动是命运的种子,行动孕育命运。
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。
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。