The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

爱的开始是让我们所爱的人成为完美的自己,而不是扭曲他们以符合我们自己的形象。否则,我们只爱自己在他们身上的反映。

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

归根到底,个人要对自己的生活负责,对“发现自己”负责。如果他坚持把自己的责任转移给别人,他就不能发现自己存在的意义。

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

我一生中努力做的一件事就是像其他人一样。我非常努力地融入。

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

因此,女性正处于建立一种语言的初级阶段,并不是所有女性都意识到这一点。

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

当有人被残忍地刺伤时,人们会欢呼雀跃,我觉得这有点令人不安。

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

你的梦想唯一不可能实现的地方就是你自己的想法。

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

荣辱的来临一定是一个人内心力量的反映。

Forgiveness is a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.

宽恕是对自己足够爱的一种反映,让你继续前进。

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

意识到自己的力量使我们谦虚。

Winning starts with beginning.

胜利始于开始。