All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

在你年轻的时候,你希望自己的伟大被认为是理所当然的;当你发现这是理所当然的,你就会感到不安。

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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

在未来,与其以高成本追求正确,不如以更低的成本实现灵活多样。如果你不能准确地预测未来,那么你必须灵活地准备应对各种可能的未来。

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

当你为某人神魂颠倒的时候,你并没有爱上这个人;你爱上了你的爱情。

As human beings, our greatness is not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.

作为人类,我们的伟大不在于能够改造世界,而在于能够改造我们自己。

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

这是一条通向伟大高峰的崎岖之路。