Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

有些人似乎几乎是在创造自己,在各种不利条件下突然冒出来,在千难万险中以他们自己的孤独而不可抗拒的方式工作着。

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I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

我想要更有耐心!我现在什么都想要。我试着冥想,但对我来说很难保持静止。我想强迫自己去做,因为每个人都说冥想对你来说是多么美妙,但是我不能把自己的思想封闭起来。所以耐心和学习是关键。

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

我只是不知道自己适合什么——我似乎不适合我父母那一代人。我似乎与我们这一代人格格不入。渐渐地,我开始从精神上寻求理解;对意义和成就感的追求。

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

哲学的要点是从一些简单到不值得陈述的东西开始,以一些自相矛盾到没有人会相信的东西结束。

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

伟大的作家来到我们中间,就像新疾病的威胁,强大,迫不及待的病人拿起他们的病毒,不可抗拒。

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

作为科学家,我们保持开放的心态,但我们必须以考古证据为基础来了解过去。