1. All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
2. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。
3. Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine
失敗乃成功之母。
4. For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人,是自己命運(yùn)的主人。
5. When a man speaks or acts with good intention. Then happiness follows him like his shadow that never leaves him.
當(dāng)一個人的言談和舉止懷著良善動機(jī),快樂便像影子般地跟隨他。
6. From moment to moment, a wise man removes his own impurities, as a smith removes the dross of silver.
聰明的人時常清除內(nèi)心的污垢,就如同工匠清理銀礦中的雜質(zhì)。
7. Make haste in doing good, restrain your mind from evil. Whosoever is slow in doing well, his mind delights in evil?
及時行善,以免你的心里再起壞念頭。凡是不能及時行善的人,內(nèi)心常會生起惡念。
8. By other's faults, wise men correct their own.
他山之石,可以攻玉。
9. There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate; there is no net like delusion, no river like craving.
貪心是最猛烈的火,憎恨是最壞的執(zhí)著,迷惑和錯誤的見解是最難脫逃的網(wǎng),愛欲是最難渡過的河流。
10. One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I’ll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
一個人應(yīng)該舍棄憤怒,拔除傲慢,超越所有的束縛。不執(zhí)著心靈和物質(zhì)的人,內(nèi)心可以得到真正的安寧,而不受外在的影響。
11. All desires have in them little pleasant taste but rather much potential suffering.
所有的欲望,只有小小的甜味,而卻隱藏著相當(dāng)多的苦頭。
12. The sensible man is not influenced by what other people think.
明智的人不為別人的想法所影響。
13. Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
變化和無常是生命的特徵。
14. Let him be cordial in his ways and refined in conduct ; thereby full of joy he will make an end of ill.
待人熱誠,舉止文雅,只要每天充滿著喜悅,苦惱就會消失得無影?。
15. He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred, being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred.
為了追求快樂,而把快樂建筑在別人的痛苦上,便會受到怨恨的困擾,而無法擺脫怨恨。
16. Look at every one equally, irrespective of rich or poor, noble or of low caste.
平等地對待每一個人,而不論其貧富或貴賤。
17. Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
不嫉妒不貪婪沒有私慾,在任何情況下,內(nèi)心都持有那份寧靜,這就是高尚!
18. He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin.
當(dāng)一個人品嚐到孤獨(dú)與恬靜的美味時,便不會產(chǎn)生恐懼的心理和犯罪的行為。
19. The cause of suffering is selfish desire, whether it is the desire for pleasure, desire for revenge, or simply desire for a long life.
痛苦的根源來自私慾,無論企求快樂報復(fù),或只企求長壽,都會導(dǎo)致痛苦。
20. By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
讀書可以使我門的思想充實(shí),談話使其更臻完美。
21. pain past is pleasure
過去的痛苦即快樂。
22. All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事必先難后易。
23. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿,無事不成。
24. Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
成功的秘訣就是四個簡單的字:多一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。
25. The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得過。 -- 蘇格拉底
26. None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度戰(zhàn)勝生活并奪取自由的人,才配享受生活的自由。
27. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon
命運(yùn)給予我們的不是失望之酒,而是機(jī)會之杯。因此,夢頤嗆廖薹懼,滿心愉悅地把握命?- 尼克松
28. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
生活沒有目標(biāo),猶如航海沒有羅盤。-- 羅斯金