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'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
我正在做我所能做的一切,和专家们一起工作,真正地研究统计数据,找出一种方法,我们可以让善良和爱变得很酷或者很正常。
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
感恩是感恩的开始。感恩是感恩的完成。感激可能仅仅由言语组成。感恩体现在行动中。
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
他必像牧人牧养自己的羊群,用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在怀中,慢慢引导那乳养小羊的。
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
一个人为自己的“善良”而感到多么不舒服啊!如果我能爆发出来,让每个人都痛苦二十四小时,我该多么尊重自己啊!体现了自私。
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
在小事上真正伟大,在日常生活的平淡无奇中真正高尚和英勇,是一种罕见的美德,值得被奉为圣人。
From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion, that it was every man’s duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
从很小的时候起,我就接受了这样一种观点,即每个人都有责任尽其所能,把自己的祖国建设得和当初一样好。
Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.
动物,或者至少是那些有意识的、有能力受苦或享受生活的动物,不是我们可以用任何我们认为方便的方式使用的东西。
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
如果我们一个一个地把人算在最小的罪里,我们不需要很长时间就能得到罪,所以我们没有人可以一起生活。因为社交就是宽恕。
Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
对所有人都表现出兴趣,而不仅仅是那些你想从他们那里得到什么的人。让人们觉得自己很重要,自我感觉良好,这是正确的做法。
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
你会发现,仅仅是不做无用之事的决心,以及帮助他人的真诚愿望,就会以最快、最微妙的方式提升你自己。
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
但如果我的行为会让别人感到不舒服,那么我可能应该调整我对他们的行为,让他们尽可能感到舒服。
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
在上班的路上,好心的年轻姑娘们有时会给我让座,我接受并祝福她们,作为回报,这一交易令所有有关方面都感到满意。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.
如果你想快乐一小时,那就打个盹吧。如果你想快乐一天,去钓鱼吧。如果你想快乐一个月,那就结婚吧。如果你想快乐一年,那就继承一大笔财产吧。如果你想一生幸福——帮助别人。
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
我们从哪里得到这样一个疯狂的想法:为了让孩子们做得更好,首先我们必须让他们感觉更糟?回想一下你最近一次感到羞辱或受到不公平待遇的情形。你想合作还是做得更好?
If you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
如果你不照顾好你的身体,你打算住在哪里?
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
如果你能伸出援助之手,那就伸出吧。你若不能,就给你弟兄们合掌,为他们祝福,叫他们走自己的路。
Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.
有时候,宽恕是最难给予的,但却是最值得珍惜的。
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
当你和一个有爱心的人一起演奏音乐,而不是和一个只是为了钱或者愤世嫉俗的人一起演奏时,情况就完全不同了。