I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

我明白了,如果一个人自信地朝着自己的梦想前进,努力过自己想象中的生活,他就会在平凡的时间里获得意想不到的成功。

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Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

我们的公民和那些在我们之前走在我们前面的人勾勒出了我们需要去哪里的大致轮廓,他们会羡慕我们有机会将这些梦想转化为行动。我相信,如果我们不采取行动,他们会非常严厉地评判我们。

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

我们从失败中学到的智慧比从成功中学到的要多得多。我们常常通过发现什么可以做,而发现什么不可以做;也许一个从未犯过错误的人也从未有过发现。

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

并非所有的清醒梦都是有用的,但它们都有一种关于清醒梦的惊奇感。如果你必须睡上三分之一的时间,那你为什么还要睡上三分之一的时间呢?

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

我想我的目的就是出去唱歌。我喜欢唱歌。我甚至不是为了——你知道,奖品。我说,‘嘿,伙计,我要唱歌了。’

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

我们应该用有多少人离开福利来衡量福利的成功,而不是用增加了多少人。

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

生活在幸福的扩展中找到它的目的和实现。