How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

  • -- George Washington 乔治华盛顿

人生能走多远,取决于你对年轻人的温柔,对老年人的同情,对奋斗者的同情,对弱者和强者的宽容。因为总有一天你会成为这一切。

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不论你的生活如何卑贱,你要面对它生活,不要躲避它,更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西,无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变,是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

没有这一天赋——保持生活热情的精神能力,没有什么比财富、学识甚至健康更重要的了。这是信条的信条,是所有重要信仰的最终沉淀和升华:你应该能够相信生活。

Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

同情的字面意思是感受,忍受。每个人都有同情的能力,但每个人都倾向于避免同情,因为它让人不舒服。这种逃避产生了精神上的麻木——抗拒为世界和其他生命体验我们的痛苦。

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

我们应该想想,每一天,如果我们没有跳过一次舞,就会失去意义。我们应该称每一个真理为假的,而不是伴随着至少一个笑声。

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

过去给了你一个身份,而未来拥有救赎的希望,以任何形式实现。都是幻想。

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

一个人应该总是考虑他拥有的比他想要的多。

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

人可以从心里弃绝怜悯,但神永远不会。

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

生活的目的就是生活的目的。

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

容忍不容忍就是懦弱。

Even monkeys fall from trees.

甚至猴子也会从树上掉下来。