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.

  • -- Harry Emerson Fosdick 美国牧师福斯迪克

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。

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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡,必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候,你可以看到星星。

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

我给你的建议不是问为什么或去哪里,而是享受你盘子里的冰淇淋——这就是我的哲学。

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

多年来教授写作,在很多重要的方面都干扰了你自己的写作,带走了一些诗歌的乐趣。

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

你根本想不到人们一天会浪费多少时间。以及他们在自己真正热爱的事情上投入的时间是多么的少。

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

我爱我的过去。我喜欢我的礼物。我不为我所拥有的感到羞耻,我也不悲伤,因为我不再拥有它。

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

似乎重要的是要找到方法提醒自己,大多数“熟悉”都是经过深思熟虑和自欺欺人的。

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

懂得一切并不重要,重要的是要珍惜我们所学到的东西。

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

对一个人来说,信仰是必要的。不信的人有祸了。

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

学习如何即兴创作真的激发了我对音乐的兴趣。

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

我的国家就是世界,我的信仰就是行善。