The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

我们贫穷的原因是我们没有想象力。有很多人在积累他们认为是巨大的财富,但那只是钱……他们不知道如何享受它,因为他们没有想象力。

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The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

人类创造力的源泉和中心……是他创造形象的能力,或者说想象力的能力。

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

这就是信仰的定义——接受我们认为是真实的东西,接受我们无法证明的东西。

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

很多人用他们的健康来获得财富,然后不得不用他们的财富来恢复健康。

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

爱情是人类唯一绝对需要的财富。爱是上帝唯一的财富。

If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough.

如果金钱买不到幸福,那么你赚的钱可能还不够。

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

不要只把目标定得太高,要努力去实现它,并在实现的过程中获得一些快乐。

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

贫困项目的目的不是消除贫困。

Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck.

贫穷是选择错误的结果,而不是运气不好。