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'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.
我向任何人推荐这条公路。你对它感到好奇,直到你发现它对每个人都有效,你才会真正感激它。但我推荐它。
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do -- not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
在不同信仰相遇的背景下,我们需要把我们实际的信仰如何塑造我们所做的事情浮出水面——而不是简单地同意善良比残忍更好。
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
因为人们不相信天意,所以他们贪婪地搜刮和囤积。他们不相信任何对慈善的回报,因此他们将一无所有。
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
我们所有人都可以做得更好,唤起人们所说的人类利他主义的普遍原则:我们所有人都有帮助处于危险中的其他人的冲动。
Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
伯纳德和我打算在我们的生活中做很多事情,包括积极帮助他人。但是,当我们还没有完成我们的计划时,我们怎么能告诉你呢?
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
我是所谓的女权主义者。三十年前,我离开了修道院,开始了正常人的生活。在两三年内,我发现我是在捍卫妇女的权利。
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
如果同情对我们有好处,为什么我们不训练我们的医疗保健提供者同情,这样他们就能做他们应该做的,那就是改变痛苦?
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
这也是自私的,因为当你帮助别人的时候,你会感觉很好。陌生人的善举帮助了我。这就是为什么我们来到这里,毕竟是为了帮助他人。
Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean...it is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
因此,美德是一种与选择有关的品格状态,它以一种……它是两种恶习之间的一种中庸之道,一种依赖于过量,另一种依赖于缺陷。
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
我喜欢认为我所带来的是一种同情和可爱的品质,即使当我扮演的是被驱逐的人或角色,最终在古怪的情况下。
I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
我也参与了残疾人权利的活动,并为此筹集了一些资金,我认为这将大大促进这项运动,但这是无法实现的。
I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.
我不赞成踢掉梯子。我指的是我作为一个年轻作家所攀登的阶梯,那些不收费的小杂志,诸如此类的东西。
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Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是一种聋子能听见、瞎子能看见的语言。
To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.
要保持冷静和同情心,你需要勇气和信念。
Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.
生活中总会有不好的事情发生。人们会伤害你。但你不能以此为借口去伤害别人。
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
培养我们的同情心不仅是可能的,而且是我们活在世上的唯一理由。
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
生活的秘密之一就是,真正值得做的事情就是我们为别人做的事情。
One kind word can warm three winter months.
一句友善的话可以温暖三个冬天。