So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

  • -- Mother Maribel 母亲玛丽贝尔

我们常常试图改变环境来适应自己,而不是让它们改变我们,而这正是它们的本意。

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I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

我享受着狂野的名声,但这些天,我试着不去担心人们在自己大脑的隐私里想些什么,或者他们在自己报纸的奇怪宣传中写些什么,因为所有这些都是毫无意义的。

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

不可忘记的是,我们所谓的信仰的理性基础,往往是为我们的本能辩护的极度非理性的尝试。

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

重要的是,无论我们是否有信仰,总的来说,我们对人们是非常宽容的,不管他们的观点是什么。

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

你不能经常和一个敌人战斗,否则你会把你所有的战争技巧都教给他。

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

如果你的房子着火了,你不试着把火扑灭吗?