My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.

  • -- Elizabeth Gilbert 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特

我的写作实践教会我最重要的是坚持。这不一定是纪律。纪律会变成监狱。当你的修行成为另一件让你焦虑的事情时,它们就失去了用处。

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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

一种焦虑不安的不安,一种对利益的强烈渴望已经占领了商业界,在某些情况下,人类生活中最宝贵和永久的财富已被疯狂地牺牲,以换取一时的富裕。

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

我们都必须承受两种痛苦之一:纪律之痛或悔恨之痛。不同之处在于纪律重几盎司,悔恨重几吨。

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

穷人受别人的约束而不能思考,富人受自己的约束而不能思考。

Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again.

嗯,他们知道我并不急于再工作一个小时。