The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

我们从帮忙中获得的快乐部分来自于它给我们的感觉,我们并非一无是处。这对我们来说是一个惊喜。

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At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

最后,有人来告诉我,我被选为局长了,这引起了人们的议论,说我是干干净净地接受这份工作的。然后我被带下楼去参加一个新闻发布会,记者们和我一样感到惊讶。

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

当我们开始写自己的东西时,寻求快乐的人最终变成了摇篮。我的妹妹南希被邀请来当歌手,而我则退居二线,担任主要主唱,专注于我的乐器。

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

我们对一个想法或目标的感觉越强烈,深埋在我们潜意识里的想法就越肯定会指引我们沿着实现它的道路前进。

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

如果一个人想要另一个人只是为了某种自我满足,通常是以感官享受的形式,那么错误的欲望就会以欲望而不是爱的形式出现。

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

战略规划毫无价值——除非首先有一个战略愿景。

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

我们必须在我们所能得到的东西中找到我们的责任,而不是在可能发生的事情中。

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

你必须意识到总有一天你会死。在那之前你毫无价值。

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

可怜的,亲爱的,愚蠢的春天,准备着她一年一度的惊喜!

Awareness without action is worthless.

没有行动的意识是没有价值的。