There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

传播光明有两种方式:做一支蜡烛或一面镜子。

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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

人们喜欢交谈,但讨厌倾听。倾听不仅仅是不说话,即使这也超出了我们的大多数能力;它意味着对我们所听到的内容保持强烈的、人性化的兴趣。你可以像一堵空白的墙,或者像一个华丽的礼堂一样聆听,在那里,每一个声音回来的时候都变得更充实、更丰富。

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

很少有悲剧能比生活的阻碍更广泛,很少有不公平能比剥夺一个奋斗甚至希望的机会更深刻,而这种机会是由外部强加的,却被错误地认定为内在的。

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

尽管我们有了更多的信息,但我们并没有比过去聪明多少,这意味着现在真正的技能是学习如何从这些噪音中挑选出有用的信息。

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

当你离开的时候,你为自己做的事情也就消失了,但是你为别人做的事情仍然是你的遗产。

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

的确,一知半解可能是件危险的事,但是缺乏知识对任何人来说都是一场灾难。

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

我喜欢听它,但我觉得我做不到。