A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
We resist only what is inevitable.
我们只抗拒不可避免的事情。
Events are not a matter of chance.
事件不是偶然的。
Man blindly works the will of fate.
人盲目地操纵命运的意志。
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
没有人能预料到意想不到的事情。
Time is the devourer of all things.
时间吞噬一切。
We wake sleeping, and sleep waking.
我们在睡梦中醒来,在睡梦中醒来。
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
所有的都是通量,没有什么是静止的。
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
贪得无厌的人永远是奴隶。
The root of suffering is attachment.
痛苦的根源是依恋。
I'll let life take me where it will.
我会让生活带我去它想去的地方。
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
接吻是比智慧更好的命运。
Men fated to be happy need not haste.
命中注定幸福的人不必匆忙。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
凡是发生的事都是应该发生的,如果你仔细观察,你会发现事情是这样的。
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。
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
通过坚持不懈,许多人从看似注定要失败的事情中获得成功。
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
未来有两种,一种是欲望的未来,另一种是命运的未来,而人类的理性从来没有学会把它们分开。
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。
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。