There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

  • -- Peyton Conway March 佩顿康威三月

有一个奇妙的神话般的自然法则,我们在生活中最渴望的三样东西——幸福、自由和内心的平静——总是通过给予别人而得到的。

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I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

当我写小说时,我有了更多的自由,但我的回忆录对我的读者产生了更大的影响。不知何故,“信息”,即使我甚至不知道有一个,以这种形式更好地传达。

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

因为我只是一个在精神上给予的人,我觉得如果你的意图是利用、滥用或利用,那么你可能会得到你同时得到的,但仍然要付出代价。

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

一个人不一定生来就有勇气,但他天生就有潜力。没有勇气,我们就不能持之以恒地实践任何其他美德。我们不能善良、真诚、仁慈、慷慨或诚实。

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

幸福与其说是拥有不如说是分享。我们靠得到的东西生活,但我们靠给予的东西生活。

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing

许多人能做一件聪明的事,更能做一件狡猾的事,但很少有人能做一件慷慨大方的事

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

如果你不介意在边缘徘徊,我认为那里有更多的自由。