1、Time is a playful kitten. She creeps up on you and drinks the day like a bowl of milk.时间是一只顽皮的小猫。她爬到你身上，像从碗里喝牛奶一样，喝掉一天的时光。 All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope. (Alexandre Dumas Pere, French writer, 1802-1870)人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词等待和希望。 （大仲马，法国作家。1802-1870）I had more pleasure in stroll
2、ing about among the old melancholy looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy my
3、self ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth. (Charles Lamb, English essayist, 1775-1834)我更喜爱在那些古老而忧郁的紫杉树、枞树间徜徉，捡几枚好看却别无它用的红浆果和球果或者，随意躺在嫩草地上，任凭自己沉醉于满园芬芳或者，在橘园里晒太阳，暖洋洋地沐浴在日光里，直到恍惚间以为自己和那些橘子、青柠一样成熟起来。 （查尔斯 兰姆，英国散文家，1775-1834 ）Perhaps they are not stars, but rather ope
4、nings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. (Eskimo proverb)也许，它们不是星星，而是天堂的逝者用来传递爱的窗隙。它们闪亮着告诉我们，他们过得很好。 （爱斯基摩人谚语）那些走远的人，3 年了，我们仍在想念着你们。 Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. (William C
5、lement Stone, American best selling author, 1902-2002)无论你的现在和过去如何，你都可以决定你的将来。 （威廉 克莱门特 斯通，美国畅销书作家，1902-32002）Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. (Bill Cosby, American
6、comedian and producer, b. 1937)幽默可以缓和生活中最糟糕的打击。无论你的处境多么痛苦，只要你笑得出来，你就能挺得过去。 （比尔 考斯比，美国喜剧演员、制片人，生于 1937 年）Life is like a cafeteria. You take your tray, select your food and pay at the other end. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. In a cafeteria, if you wait for
7、people to serve you, you will wait forever. Life is like that too. You make choices and pay the price to succeed. (Shiv Khera, Indian motivational speaker and author)人生就像一家自助餐厅。你拿着碟子，选好食物，然后在另一端付钱。只要你愿意付出代价，你就能得到任何你想得到的东西。在一家自助餐厅里，如果你等人来伺候你，你将永远空等下去。人生也是如此。你做出选择，然后为了成功付出代价。 （希瓦 可拉，印度励志演说家、作家）Life ha
8、s taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint Exupery, French pilot and writer, 1900- 1944)生活已经告诉我们，爱不在于相互凝视，而在于眺望同一方向。 （安东尼 德 圣埃克苏佩里，法国飞行家、作家，1900-1944 ）Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persisten
9、t one. (Albert Einstein, German - born American physicist, 1879-1955)所谓现实只不过是一个错觉，虽然这个错觉非常持久。 （阿尔伯特 爱伊斯坦，德裔美籍物理学家，1879-1955）Courage is grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway, American writer, 1899-1961)勇气，是压力之下表现出的优雅。 （欧内斯特 海明威，美国作家，1899-1961）To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success. (
10、Henry John Heinz, American businessman, 1844-1919)成功的秘诀，在于将平凡的事做得不同凡响。 （亨利 约翰 海因茨，美国商人，1844-1919）Lifes not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. (Terri Guillemets, American quotation anthologist, b. 1973)生活并不总是公平的。有时你即使从彩虹上滑下来，也可能被一根刺扎到。 （特丽 吉耶梅，美国格言编撰者，生于 1973 年
11、）To fight darkness you dont brandish a sword but you light a candle. (Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism, 628 BC 551 BC)想要击败黑暗，你需要的不是刀枪剑戟，而是一只点亮的蜡烛。 （琐罗亚斯德，拜火教创始人，公元前 628 年-公元前 551 年）In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life; It goes on. (Robert Frost, American poet, 1874-1963)
12、我对生活的感悟可总结为三个字：继续着。 （罗伯特 弗罗斯特，美国诗人，1874-1963）Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. (Rudyard Kipling, English novelist and poet, 1865-1936)亚洲之开化，必然不落西方之窠臼。她太过沧桑，也太过广博。 （拉迪亚德 吉卜林，英国小说家、诗人，1865-1936）The secret to any lasting relation
13、ship is to see the beauty in the imperfection.任何长久的恋情都有一个秘诀，那就是在不完美里发现美。Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. (Channing Pollock, American writer, 1880-1946)幸福，是位于太多和太少中间的一个小站。 （钱宁 波洛克，美国作家，1880-1946）Legend says that long ago, there was a bird that sang just once in its life. Fr
14、om the moment it left its nest, it searched for a thorn tree. And it never rested until it found one. Then it began to sing more sweetly than any other creature on the face of earth. And singing, it impaled its heart on the longest, sharpest thorn. But as it was dying, it rose above its own agony to
15、 out sing the lark and the nightingale. The bird pays its life for that one great songs, existence is the price but the whole world stills to listen and God, in heaven, smiles. (Colleen McCullough, Australian author, b. 1937)传说有一只鸟儿，它一生只唱一次，那歌声比一切生灵的歌声都优美动听。从离巢的那一刻起，它就在寻找着荆棘树，直到如愿以偿，然后，它把自己的身体扎进最长、最
16、尖的棘刺上，便在那荒蛮的枝条间放开歌喉。在奄奄一息的时刻，它超脱了自身的痛苦，而歌声响遏行云，使云雀和夜莺都黯然失色。这是一曲无比美好的歌，曲终而命竭。然而整个世界都在静静地谛听着，上帝也在苍穹中微笑。 （考琳 麦考洛，澳大利亚作家生于 1937 年）Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. (James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic, 1819-1891)倒霉的事就像刀子，握住刀柄可以
17、为我们服务，握住刀刃则会割破手。 （詹姆斯 罗素洛威尔，美国诗人、批评家，1819-1891 ）The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Donald Kendall)只有在字典里， “成功”才会出现在“工作”之前。 （唐纳德 肯德尔）How many legs does a dog have if you can call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesnt make it a leg. (Abraham Lincoln, 16th
18、 US president, 1809-1865)如果尾巴也算一条腿，一只狗有几条腿？答案是四条。把尾巴叫做腿，不会让它真的成为腿。 （亚伯拉罕 林肯，美国第 16 任总统，1809-1865 ）Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1847-1931)我们生活中的许多失败，是因为人们在放弃的时候没有意识到他们距离成功有多么近。 （托马斯 爱迪生，美国发明家
19、，1847-1931 ）The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision. (G. K. Chesterton, English novelist and poet, 187
20、4-1936)疯子，是蜗居在狭小的世界里，却以为它很大的人；他生活在一成的现实里，却以为这就是全部。疯人无法想像在特定的故事、阴谋或假象背后，还有另外的世界。 （G.K. 切斯特顿，英国小说家、诗人，1874-1936 ）Your children are not your children. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. (Khalil Gibran, Lebanese American poet, 1833-1931)你们的孩子，都不是你们的孩子。你们是弓，你们的孩子是从
21、弦上发出的生命的箭矢。 （卡里 纪伯伦，黎巴嫩裔美国诗人，1883-1931 ）Sometimes you need patience in order to find true happiness. It wont come fast and it wont come easy, but it will be worth it.有些时候，你需要耐心才能找到真正的幸福。它不会来得很快，也不会轻易到来，但它值得等待。Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. (Rabindranath
22、 Tagore, Indian poet, 1861-1941)信念，是一只在黎明前的黑暗里感觉到光明并歌唱的鸟。 （泰戈尔，印度诗人，1861-1941）You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political and ideological leader, 1869-1948)千万不要对人性失去信心
23、。人性好比大海，虽然有几滴水是脏的，但却弄不脏整个大海。（莫罕达斯 卡拉姆昌德 甘地，印度政治、思想领袖，1869-1948）Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.学会聆听。因为机会的敲击声有时是很轻微的。The Princess promised she would be here,Upon the northern isle shed appear.Yet though I strain and strain my eyes,Shes never seen to be drawing near.O why wou
24、ld thou, the autumn wind,So steadily, stoutly rave and rave?Oer the wavering waves of Dongting Lake,Trees are helplessly shedding their leaves.(Qu Yuan, ancient Chinese scholar and poet, 340 BC 278BC)帝子降兮北渚，目渺渺兮予怀。袅袅兮秋风，洞庭波兮木叶下。（屈原，中国古代学者、诗人，公元前 340 年-公元前 278 年）Twenty years from now you will be more
25、 disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain, American author and humorist, 1835-1910)二十年后，让你觉得更失望的不是你做过的事，而是你没有去做的事。所以解开帆索，从安全的港湾中起航吧。乘
26、着信风，去探索，去梦想，去发现。 （马克 吐温，美国作家、幽默大师，1835-1910）Spend the afternoon. You take it with you. (Annie Dillard, American author, b. 1945)用掉这个下午。你不可能将它带走。 （安妮 迪拉德，美国作家，生于 1945 年）The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference. The opposite of faith is
27、not heresy, its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference. (Elie Wiesel, Jewish American writer, b. 1928)爱的反面不是仇恨，是冷漠。艺术的反面不是丑陋，是平庸。信仰的反面不是异端，是漠然。生命的反面不是死亡，是空虚。 （埃利 威赛尔，美国犹太裔作家，生于 1928 年）Nature satisfies by its loveliness, and without any mixture of corporeal benefit The
28、long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations: the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American p
29、oet and essayist, 1803-1882)自然之所以悦人是因其可爱，不掺杂任何物欲之念。丝丝柔云飘渺浮动，宛若鱼儿畅游于霞光之海。从堤岸一般的大地上，我眺望平静的云海。我的心似乎投入那瞬息万变的世界：云蒸霞蔚，逼我形骸，我仿佛融入了那充溢于胸的晨风。 （拉尔夫 沃尔多 爱默生，美国诗人、散文家，1803-1882）Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. (James A. Michener, American author, 1907-1997)一个人第三、四次尝试时的所作所为，体现出了他的人格。 （詹姆斯 A 米切纳，美国作家，1907-1997）Dont worry about the world coming to the end today. Its already tomorrow in Australia. (Charles Schulz, American cartoonist, 1922-2000)不要担心世界今日终结。澳大利亚已经是明天了。 （查尔斯 舒兹，美国漫画家，1922-2000）
