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。
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
在你说话之前,问问自己你要说的话是否真实,是否友善,是否必要,是否有益。如果答案是否定的,也许你要说的话就不要说了。
But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
但如果你能支持的话,试着去支持,不管是艾滋病还是癌症基金会,这样其他人就有可能活下来,有可能成功,也有可能治愈这种可怕的疾病。
I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.
我确实想在这个世界上有所作为。我有时和孩子们一起做志愿者工作,并设法帮助一些人,但要真正做出显著的改变是很难的。
I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.
我爱旅行。它不仅开阔了我的眼界,也让我可以通过人道主义作品和其他方式利用我的名声,并在世界各地产生影响。
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
至今还没有人充分认识到,一个孩子的灵魂中隐藏着丰富的同情、善良和慷慨。每一个真正的教育都应该努力去发掘这种宝藏。
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
我相信女人有一种理解和同情的能力,而男人在结构上没有,因为他不能拥有。他就是做不到。
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
绝大多数人都是冷静的、足智多谋的、无私的,甚至超越无私,因为他们会为他人冒险。我们把生存条件完美地即兴创造出来。
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
既然你不能对所有人都行善,你就应该特别注意那些由于时间、地点或环境的偶然因素而与你有更密切联系的人。
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
我只是一个演员,但是如果我在帮助别人,或者我们所做的事情帮助了别人,那么这就是一个额外的好处。
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
解决这个问题的最好方法就是以一种全意识的、富有同情心的、充满爱的方式生活。不要等到临终时才意识到这是唯一的生活方式。
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
天离地怎样高,他向敬畏他的人,也必照样大施慈爱。东离西有多远,他把我们的过犯从我们身上除掉也有多远。
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
没有人能坚强、温柔、纯洁、善良,没有人能让世界变得更美好,没有人能因为善良的存在而得到帮助和安慰。
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
事实上,如果一个人的美德不是由他自己的理性所产生的,那么把他称为有德之人就是一场闹剧。
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。
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
限制你的快乐,小心它们不会伤害任何活着的人。
Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.
用你希望别人对待你的方式对待别人……这适用于任何情况。
It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
当你不要求别人给予时,他们会给予,这是令人惊奇的。他们中的许多人寄钱是因为他们相信这个信息。
A person who is nice to you but is not nice to the waiter is not a nice person.
一个人对你很好,但对服务员不好,那人不是个好人。