We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  • -- James Freeman Clarke 詹姆士·弗雷曼·克拉克

我们一直在进步或倒退。生命中没有静止不动的东西。

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To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

倾听就是不断地放弃所有的期待,把我们的注意力完全地、新鲜地放在我们面前的事物上,而不是真正地知道我们将听到什么或那将意味着什么。在我们的日常生活中,倾听就是轻轻地向前倾,愿意被我们所听到的改变。

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

艺术界通常由自由主义者主导,因为如果你主要关注绘画或雕塑,你就没有时间去研究世界是如何运作的。如果你不懂经济、战略、历史和政治,那么你自然会成为一个自由主义者。

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

如果你日复一日地听到,自由主义者在反对武装力量,这最终会对士兵产生影响,而士兵们实际上会相信这是错误的。这是错误的。

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.

考虑到深刻的社会变革,保守主义者总是期待灾难,而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

随着我们智慧的增长,我们会更自由地宽恕。