A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
善良
Kindness
善意既体现在言语里,也体现在愿意理解与帮助他人的行动中。这些语句围绕体谅、分享和尊重展开。
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
我是一个唯我论者,一个自恋者,而且过于自大。我现在有了更多的同情心,但是花了很长时间。
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
你有没有注意到,在你过去的经历中,你善意的解释几乎总是比你严厉的解释更真实?
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
一个伟大的建筑师与其说是由头脑造就的,不如说他是由一颗有教养的、充实的心造就的。
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
比起你的收获,更重要的是如何分享,你的生活才会有意义,你的心才会平静。
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
在我们所拥有的时间里,我们有责任尽我们所能,尽我们所能,以我们所能的方式,为所有的人做最好的事情。
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
我们中有许多人愿意为主做大事,但很少有人愿意做小事。
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
愿你心里怜悯众人的困苦窘迫。愿你的手按着你的资财按比例分给他们。
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
人若说不出话来,不要笑话他,总要可怜他,像可怜断了腿的人一样。
They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.
他们需要帮助,我们已经提供了帮助,我们在这里提供帮助。我们正在提供帮助,我们将继续提供帮助。
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
我很欣赏佛教教学的核心是专注、仁爱和慈悲。
If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.
如果宽恕、善良和人性能够改变一些事情;今天我们将生活在一个和平的世界。
We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb?
我们倾向于对爱我们的畜生比对爱我们的女人更仁慈。是因为这些畜生都是哑巴吗?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
善良的一部分在于爱那些不配爱的人。
Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth.
平和地克服愤怒。以善除恶。用慷慨战胜贪婪。用真理战胜说谎者。
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
只有善良的人才能公正地评价别人,体谅别人的缺点。善解人意的眼睛虽然能看到缺点,却能看到缺点之外的东西。
Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.
与其在自私的种子长成巨大的杂草后试图根除它们,不如不要播下自私的种子。
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
那些不寻找幸福的人最有可能找到幸福,因为那些正在寻找幸福的人忘记了,获得幸福最可靠的方法就是为他人寻找幸福。
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
我们每个人都是只有一只翅膀的天使,只有拥抱彼此才能飞翔。