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

  • -- Theodor W. Adorno 狄奥多·阿多诺

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。

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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.

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。

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

下定决心不要贫穷:无论你拥有什么,都要少花钱。贫穷是人类幸福的大敌;它肯定会破坏自由,使一些美德变得不切实际,而另一些则极其困难。

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

爱只追求一件事:被爱之人的好处。它留下了所有其他的次要影响来照顾自己。因此,爱本身就是奖赏。

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

菲律宾想要美丽。我必须看起来很漂亮,这样可怜的菲律宾人才能从贫民窟里看到明星。

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

我喜欢剪裁得体、无可挑剔的衣服。我认为这是一门非常健康的学科。

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

我认为在传统杂志的智慧中,你需要每十年左右重新设计一次。

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

一个人一生的大部分时间都是在努力阻止自己思考。

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

意识到自己的力量使我们谦虚。