The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. 唯一不可能的行程,是你从未启程的那个。-Tony Robbins
亲爱的读者朋友们,大家元旦假期过的好吗?
2022年的第一篇推文,我们保持传统,不烧脑。
读书俱乐部自成立以来,每天早上都会分享“晨汤”,很多书友私下跟L小姐反馈,常常有些句子打动到、或者鼓励了他们。
过去22个月,我们至少分享了600条句子,今天摘选其中60条,和大家重温一下这些简短的文字带给我们的力量。想看去年版本的请戳这里《2021年正确打开方式》。
没有读到过这些句子的朋友们,一起来看看,有没有哪一句触动到你,欢迎来交流~
About Life/关于生活
There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.
只有一种成功,那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生。- Christopher Morley #1
Seems to me that love is everywhere. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
如果你用心去看,我确信你会发现,真爱其实无处不在。-Love Actually #2
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
人生就应该是快乐的,要抓住每一天,孩子们。让你们的生活变得非凡起来。-Dead Poets Society #3
What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
一个人的首要职责是什么?很简单:做自己。-Henrik Ibsen #4
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
生活不是寻找你自己,而是创造你自己。- George Bernard Shaw #5
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
我宁愿做我自己而被人仇恨,也不愿意为了迎合别人而伪装自己。-Kurt Cobain #6
Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
如果有人说叶子掉落是死亡,那他肯定没看过叶子在风中起舞的样子。- Shira Tamir #7
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
一个人知道自己为什么而活,就可忍受任何一种生活。-Friedrich Nietzsche #8
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
当你正在为生活疲于奔波时,生活已离你远去。-John Lennon #9
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
人生太短,没有什么是能够保证的,来不及患得患失。-Eric Davis #10
About Kindness/关于善意
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
用真诚审判自己,以宽厚评判他人。- John Mitchell Mason #11
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
一个能激发热情的普通念头,要比一个无法启迪他人的伟大设想更有成效。- Mary Kay Ash #12
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
选择乐观和感恩的心态将决定你会如何度过一生。- Joel Osteen #13
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
宽恕是情感关系的润滑剂。-Josh Mcdowell #14
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
雪落无声,一如来去无声的思绪,每一片都是珍宝。-William Hamilton Gibson #15
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
将你受到的伤害变成智慧。- Oprah Winfrey #16
Where there is love there is life.
哪里有爱,哪里就有生机。- Mahatma Gandhi #17
One's courtesy is a mirror to see his image.
一个人的礼貌是一面照出他的肖像的镜子。-Goethe #18
They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.
人们说爱是最好的投资,你付出的越多,你得到的回报就越多。–Audery Hepburn #19
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
博爱,谨信,不负人。-William Shakespeare #20
About Dream/关于梦想
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
不要走现成的路,最好是走别人没有走过的路,同时留下自己的足迹 。-Ralph Waldo Emerson #21
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
知识是有限的,而想象力能够绕行世界。- Albert Einstein #22
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright.
有些鸟儿是永远关不住的,因为它们的每一片羽翼上都沾满了自由的光辉。-The Shawshank Redemption #23
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
幸福是从自我实现中产生的。- Benjamin Spock #24
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
预测未来的最好办法就是去创造未来。- Peter Drucker #25
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
这个世界只是我们想象的一块画布。- Henry David Thoreau #26
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.
如果你不为自己的人生定下计划,那么你就会成为别人计划里的一部分。- Jim Rohn #27
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
当一件事情足够重要,即使胜利的天平不在你这一边,你也必须迎头而上。- Elon Musk #28
Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
从必要的事情做起,尝试力所能及的事,最后你就会发现自己正在做不可能的事情。- Francis of Assisi #29
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
如果你不知道自己要去哪,那么每一条路都能把你带到目的地。- Lewis Carroll #30
About Action/关于行动
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
行动起来,就会有奇迹发生,你可以成为任何人。- Alicia Witt #31
Well done is better than well said.
切实行动远高于一切言语。- Benjamin Franklin #32
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
改变这个世界的是你身体力行的行动,而不是你的意见和想法。-Paulo Coelho #33
Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少有做不成的;之所以做不成,与其说是条件不够,不如说是由于决心不够。-La Rocheforcauld #34
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
原地等待的人也许会有所收获,但收获的都是那些努力的人留下的东西。-Abraham Lincoln #35
The future is always beginning now.
未来始于当下。-Mark Strand #36
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
只要是自发且积极的行动,它就是值得去做的。- Michael J. Fox #37
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
一个有创造力的人的行为动力是取得成就,而不是为了打败别人。- Ayn Rand #38
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
行动付诸实际之时,即是梦想变为目标之日。- Bo Bennett #39
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
美好藏在那些能让我们超越自我的行动、思想和言语中。- Robert Quillen #40
About Persistence/关于坚持
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
一旦你学会放弃,就会养成习惯。- Vince Lombardi #41
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
跟着自然的节奏,她的秘诀是耐心。-Ralph Waldo Emerson #42
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
不要用收获来判断每一天,而是看你每天播种了多少。- Robert Louis Stevenson #43
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
当你某天再回首时,你会发现那些奋斗的日子最美好。- Sigmund Freud #44
You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
你比你想象中更勇敢,比你看起来更强大,也比你以为的更聪明。-A.A. Milne #45
I love those who can smile in trouble.
我爱那些在困境中依旧保持微笑的人。-Leonardo da Vinci #46
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
成功不是终结,失败也不是,重要的是继续前行的勇气。- Winston Churchill #47
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
即使你摔倒在地,你仍然在前进。- Victor Kiam #48
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
保持前进动力的方法就是,一直拥有更远大的目标。- Michael Korda #49
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
控制好耐心的人,便可驾驭一切。- George Savile #50
About Self-improving/关于成长
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
请记住,有时没有得到你想要的东西,也不失为一大幸事。- Dalai Lama #51
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
你的认知就是你观望世界的窗口。记得不时擦拭,否则光无法透进来。- Alan Alda #52
Be there for others but never leave yourself behind.
为他人着想,但不要忘了自己。- Dodinsky #53
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
当人们敞开心扉时发生了什么?他们变得更好了。- Haruki Murakami #54
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
你必须接受自己内心的躁动不安与彷徨无措,因为它会使你成为一颗闪亮夺目的巨星。- Friedrich Nietzsche #55
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
不要表现得如此渺小。你处于不断运动中的宇宙。- Rumi #56
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
永远不要让别人成为你的主导,而让自己成为他们的选项。- Mark Twain #57
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
回到昨天毫无用处,因为过去的我和今天有所不同。- Lewis Carroll #58
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
只要你善于运用智慧,没有什么事是浪费时间的。- Auguste Rodin #59
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
走向知识的第一步是知道我们是无知的。- Richard Cecil #60
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