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。

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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

我理解濒死之人的大脑会发生什么,我一直相信,对于那些死里逃生的人所描述的天堂般的灵魂出窍之旅,有很好的科学解释。

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

依赖他人财物度日的人总是第一个告诉你,财产是多么的微不足道。

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

总有这样的论点——如果人们不明白你在做什么,那么从历史上看,你是在一个更好的公司里。

There is no thing of being in all the universes of existence more beautiful than any dear & precious heart.

在存在的宇宙中,没有什么比任何一颗珍贵的心更美丽的了。

Sometimes, God doesn't give what you ask, But he makes you feel good with what you have.

有时候,上帝没有给你想要的,但是他让你对你所拥有的感觉很好。

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

当你不得不做一个选择而不做的时候,这本身就是一个选择。

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

神话是一个尚未开发的庞大的知识体系。

The universe is wider than our views of it.

宇宙比我们对它的看法更广阔。