A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
奉献
Dedication
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
奉献自己最好的一点是，我们得到的总是比我们付出的好。反应大于行动。
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
有两种人:一种人对上帝说:“愿你的旨意成就”;另一种人，上帝说:“好吧，那就照你的意思去做。”
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
在太阳变冷之前，你认为还有多少人能站在这个星球上?这是我们手中的责任。
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
为人父母的一件事就是无私的能力:为了他人的利益而放弃你想要和需要的东西。
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
为幸福而追求幸福，你不会找到它;追求责任，幸福就会随着阳光而来。
The dedication of an artist involves willing oblivion to everybody else while the art is being practised, and for the hours ambiguous to it.
艺术家的奉献包括在艺术实践过程中心甘情愿地忘却他人，而且在几个小时内对他人都是模棱两可的。
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
试图把自己完全奉献给文学是最具欺骗性的事情，而且往往是自相矛盾的，是文学为之受苦。
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
如果你的贡献是至关重要的，总会有人接替你的位置，那就是你的不朽。
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
但你必须把你的一生献给大提琴。当我意识到这一点时，我回到吉他前，把音量调大了一点。
We work in the dark---we do what we can---we give what we have. Our doubt is in our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is madness.
我们在黑暗中工作——我们做我们能做的——我们给予我们所拥有的。我们的怀疑在于我们的激情，而激情就是我们的任务。其余的都是疯狂的。
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
我希望我播下的种子将被那些将追随我的人继承，因为我已经开始的旅程不能孤立地进行。
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
和解需要心灵和精神的改变，以及社会和经济的改变。它需要象征性的和实际的行动。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
没有人能成为画家，除非他把绘画放在首位。
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
一个音乐家必须创作音乐，一个艺术家必须绘画，一个诗人必须写作，如果他想最终与自己和平相处。一个人能成为什么样的人，他必须成为什么样的人。
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
传授知识只是在我们的灯前点燃别人的蜡烛，而不使自己失去任何火焰。
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
成功的代价是努力工作，专注于手头的工作，以及无论输赢，我们都全力以赴完成手头任务的决心。
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
作为一个艺术家，你首先要忠于你的艺术。除非是这样，否则你将成为二流艺术家。
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
当我们试图去做我们的职责时，我们从来没有失败过，当我们忽视去做时，我们总是失败。