I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

我不能让宇宙服从我。我不能让别人顺从我自己的想法。我不能叫我自己的身体顺服我。

相关名言

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

正如人离开了身体就不能生存一样,没有把自己的权利转化为现实的权利,没有思考的权利,没有工作的权利,没有结果的权利,也就没有权利存在,这就意味着:财产权。

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

每一门科学的基础都有一套固定不变的原则体系,就像宇宙受到这些原则的制约和支配一样。人不能制定原则;他只能发现它们。

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

人们与伟大的写作、伟大的作品、伟大的艺术指导或伟大的方向并没有真正的关系。他们只是有点羡慕它。

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

在这个世界上取得成就的人,都努力去寻找他们想要的机会,如果找不到机会,他们便自己创造机会。

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

人们每天都会学到一些东西,很多时候他们前一天学到的东西是错的。

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

土星的回归只是你的行星回到它们原来的位置。

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

模型。两个移动的眼睛在一个移动的头部,本身在一个移动的身体。

I don't have to make my own bed.

我不需要自己铺床。