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祇園精舎の鐘の声、諸行無常の響有り。
沙羅双樹の花の色、盛者必衰の理をあらはす［屮注：『源平盛衰記』全４８巻 国民文庫本作「顕す」］。
奢れる［屮注：一作驕れる］者も久しからず、唯春の夜の夢の如し。
たけき者も遂には亡びぬ［屮注：長門本作「武き者も終には亡ぬ」。網絡有作「猛き者も終には滅びぬ」］、偏に風の前の塵に同じ。
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祇園精舎（ぎをんしやうじや）の鐘（かね）の声（こゑ）、諸行無常（しよぎやうむじやう）の響（ひびき）有（あ）り。
沙羅双樹（しやらさうじゆ）の花の色、盛者必衰（せいじやひつすい）の理（ことわり）をあらはす。
奢（おご）れる者［屮注：もの］も久（ひさ）しからず、唯（ただ）春の夜の夢の如（ごと）し。
たけき者も遂（つひ）には亡（ほろ）びぬ、偏（ひとへ）に風の前（まへ）の塵（ちり）に同［屮注：おな］じ。
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祇園精舎（ぎをんしやうじや）の鐘（かね）の声（こゑ）、諸行無常（しよぎやうむじやう）の響（ひびき）あり。
娑羅双樹（しやらさうじゆ）の花（はな）の色（いろ）、盛者必衰（じやうしやひつすい）のことはり（ことわり）【理】をあらはす。
おご【奢】れる人（ひと）も久（ひさ）しからず。只（ただ）春（はる）の夜（よ）の夢（ゆめ）のごとし。
たけき者（もの）も遂（つひ）（つゐ）にはほろびぬ、偏（ひとへ）に風（かぜ）の前（まへ）の塵（ちり）に同（おな）じ。
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周作人譯，申非修訂：
祗園精舍鐘聲響，訴說世事本無常；
沙羅雙樹花失色，盛者必衰若滄桑。
驕奢主人不長久，好似春夜夢一場；
強梁霸道終殄滅，恰如風前塵土揚。
王新禧譯：
祗園精舍之鐘聲，響諸行無常之妙理；
娑羅雙樹之花色，顯盛者必衰之真諦。
驕奢者絕難長久，宛如春夜夢幻；
橫暴者必將覆亡，彷彿風前塵埃。
何屮竊譯：
祗園鐘聲，響示諸行無常；
娑羅花色，默顯盛者必衰。
驕奢難長，彷如春夜幻夢；
強梁終滅，惟是風前微塵。
祗園精舍鐘聲響，彰示諸行無固常；
娑羅雙樹花色幻，默顯盛者必衰亡。
驕縱奢傲難長久，彷如春夜一幻夢；
強梁暴虐終殄滅，惟是風前微塵埃。
注：Psalm 18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
「聖書 新共同訳」わたしは彼らを風の前の塵と見なし／野の土くれのようにむなしいものとする。
To the people of China—be they Han or non-Han, be they literate or illiterate. They have all contributed, each in his or her own way, to making Chinese civilization what it is today.
（Victor H. Mair, editor. "The dedication", The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001）
L'important dans la vie ce n'est point le triomphe, mais le combat, l'essentiel ce n'est pas d'avoir vaincu mais de s'être bien battu.
英譯：The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
中譯：生命中，重要的不是凱旋，而是奮力戰鬥；必要的不是征服，而是竭力拼搏。
（Pierre de Coubertin 皮埃爾·德·顧拜旦（現代奧林匹克之父））
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
蔡美玲中譯：在你讓我重見光明以前，我都忘了這世界有多明亮
（An old man's saying to Ged (Earthsea Cycle - A Wizard of Earthsea《地海巫師》)）
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
狐狸與刺蝟
（Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)）
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
（Horace Walpole (1717-1797)）
行衢道者不至，事兩君者不容。目不能兩視而明，耳不能兩聽而聰。螣蛇無足而飛，梧鼠五技而窮。《詩》曰：「尸鳩在桑，其子七兮。淑人君子，其儀一兮。其儀一兮，心如結兮。」故君子結於一也。
（《荀子．勸學》）
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
中譯：準備作戰時，我經常發現計劃是不中用的，而規劃則是不可缺少的。
(Dwight D.Eisenhower 1890 – 1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA)
What difference does it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
（Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977)）
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference — the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
（Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)）
Foreword前言：
Since why is so difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
（中譯：由於很難說清為甚麼，只能藉講述事情的來龍去脈來避而不談。［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：既然說明為甚麼頗棘手的，姑且找個退路吧，說說事情是怎麼發生的。(p.4)）
Summer夏：
We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then. Our only handicap was our size; people gave us orders because they were bigger and stronger. So it was with confidence, strengthened by pity and pride, that we decided to change the course of events and alter a human life.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：這些記憶讓我們起而悍衛自己（誤譯：since memory指從有記憶開始、從來），對抗所有的事物和所有的人，認定一切的說辭都是必須破解的語碼，所有的手勢都應小心分析；我們變得很固執、古怪、倨傲。沒有人理睬我們，所以我們就得好好理睬自己。我們看不清自己的侷限──當時確實如此。以為自己唯一的不足是身體的尺寸；大人們命令我們，因為他們比我們高大強壯。所以，是不知天高地厚的自信，被悲憫和傲氣所強化的自信，讓我們決定改變事件發展的走向，改變一個人的生命。(p.173)）
We tried to see her without looking at her, and never, never went near. Not because she was absurd, or repulsive, or because we were frightened, but because we had failed her. Our flowers never grew. I was convinced that Frieda was right, that I had planted them too deeply. How could I have been so sloven?
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：我們試著見到她時不定睛看她，而且，不曾，從不曾挨近她。並非因為她無厘頭，或討人厭，或我們怕她，而是因為愧疚沒能幫助她。我們的花未曾長出來。我確信菲莉妲是對的，我把種籽埋得太深了。自己怎會那麼粗心大意呢？(p.188)）
All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us - all who knew her — felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used—to silence our own nightmares. And she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：所有我們往她身上倒而被她吸收的廢棄物。以及所有我們的美麗，原本是她的，她把它給了我們。我們每個人──所有認識她的人──在藉由她潔淨了我們自身之後，覺得身心健全。當兩腳高高跨在她的醜陋之上時，我們顯得何等美麗！她的單純裝飾了我們，她的罪行讓我們自以為聖潔，她的創傷讓我們散發出健康的神采，她的笨拙讓我們覺得自己很有幽默感。她的啞然無語讓我們相信自己雄辯滔滔。她的貧窮使我們得以慷慨。甚至她似夢乍醒的存在狀態，我們也用上了──用來叫我們自己的噩夢閉嘴，別再胡鬧。這一切是她容許我們的，所以活該受我們鄙視。我們把她當作磨刀石用來砥礪自我，用她的軟弱襯托出我們的性格，在幻想自己剛強有力時安心地打呵欠。(p.189)）
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：的確是幻想，因為我們並不剛強，只是具有侵略性；不識何謂自由，只是恣意妄為；沒有憐憫心，只是有禮貌；不是品行好，只是進退合宜。我們挑逗死亡以便自詡勇敢，其實苟且偷生。我們以漂亮的文法代替知性思考；改變習慣以模仿成熟；重新編排謊言，稱之為真理，在舊觀念的新表樣裡宣稱看見了末世的啟示和太初之道。(p.189)）
The failure to distinguish kindness and politeness is the crux of relationship problems.
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She, however, stepped over into madness, a madness which protected her from us simply because it bored us in the end.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：她，卻跨步越軌走入瘋狂，這瘋狂保護她免受我們干擾，只因為它終於讓我們覺得厭倦。(p.189)）
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：愛從未勝過愛人的本身。邪惡的人以邪惡的方式愛，狂暴的人以狂暴的方式愛，懦弱的人以懦弱的方式愛，愚蠢的人以愚蠢的方式愛。但一個自由的人所給予的愛從來都不是安全的。沒有禮物為蒙愛的人存留。只有愛人的才擁有愛的禮物。蒙愛的人在愛人內在眼睛的照射下被修剪、中和、凍結。(p.189-190)）
She, however, stepped over into madness, a madness which protected her from us simply because it bored us in the end.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：她，卻跨步越軌走入瘋狂，這瘋狂保護她免受我們干擾，只因為它終於讓我們覺得厭倦。(p.189)）
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：愛從未勝過愛人的本身。邪惡的人以邪惡的方式愛，狂暴的人以狂暴的方式愛，懦弱的人以懦弱的方式愛，愚蠢的人以愚蠢的方式愛。但一個自由的人所給予的愛從來都不是安全的。沒有禮物為蒙愛的人存留。只有愛人的才擁有愛的禮物。蒙愛的人在愛人內在眼睛的照射下被修剪、中和、凍結。(p.189-190)）
何屮新譯：（見《新亞生活》2023.01文章）
喜歡一個人，請試著了解他；不要輕易迷戀上你想像中的他。
If you like someone, do spend the time to understand them. Don’t fall in love with someone for who you think they are.
- 《愛情失控點》 (Irrational Man), 2015
迷戀蔽眼才給美化，但其實真懂得我嗎？
- 林夕詞：〈羅生門〉, 2015
Afterword後記：
"Quiet as it's kept," [...] The words are conspiratorial. "Shh, don't tell anyone else," and "No one is allowed to know this." It is a secret between us and a secret that is being kept from us. The conspiracy is both held and withheld, exposed and sustained. In some sense it was precisely what the act of writing the book was: the public exposure of a private confidence.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：「噓，毋通講出去」［……］這語詞透露著一種同謀關係。「噓，別告訴其他人，」和「別人不可以知道我告訴妳。」這是唯有我們兩人知道的秘密，同時也是別人不想讓我們知道的秘密。同謀的關係既維持又有所保留。保密的同時也洩密。從某層意義說，本書的寫作正是如此：將閨房私語公諸於世。(p.195-196)）
"Quiet as it's kept" is also a figure of speech that is written, in this instance, but clearly chosen for how speakerly it is, how it speaks and bespeaks a particular world and its ambience. Further, in addition to its "back fence" connotation, its suggestion of illicit gossip, of thrilling revelation, there is also, in the "whisper," the assumption (on the part of the reader) that the teller is on the inside and knows something others do not, and is going to be generous with this privileged information. The intimacy I was aiming for, the intimacy between the reader and the page, could start up immediately because the secret is being shared, at best, and eavesdropped upon, at the least.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：「噓，毋通講出去」這一語詞，在這個例子中，雖然是寫出來的，但顯然是因其反映出說話者的語姿而中選，它使一個特定的世界及其周遭的存有呼之欲出。更進一步，除了「隔牆有耳」的弦外之音，暗示及不倫八卦、聳人聽聞的爆料之外，這「耳語」裡也有一種（讀者方面持有的）假設：說話的人是圈內人，知道別人不知道的事，而且會很慷慨地把獨享資訊提供出來。我所致力於建立的親暱，讀者和書頁間的親暱，可以因此立刻啟動；最佳狀況，秘密正被分享，至少，正被暗中聽見。(p.196)）
（Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye。諾貝爾文學獎1993年得獎者。童妮‧摩里森（Toni Morrison）著，曾珍珍譯：《最藍的眼睛》，臺北：臺灣商務印書館，2007年。）
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Lonely was much better than alone.
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. [...] You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own.
Song of Solomon
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”
― Toni Morrison, Tar Baby
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
You are your best thing.
喜歡一個人，請試著了解他；不要輕易迷戀上你想像中的他。
If you like someone, do spend the time to understand them. Don’t fall in love with someone for who you think they are.
- 《愛情失控點》 (Irrational Man), 2015
迷戀蔽眼才給美化，但其實真懂得我嗎？
- 林夕詞：〈羅生門〉, 2015
Afterword後記：
"Quiet as it's kept," [...] The words are conspiratorial. "Shh, don't tell anyone else," and "No one is allowed to know this." It is a secret between us and a secret that is being kept from us. The conspiracy is both held and withheld, exposed and sustained. In some sense it was precisely what the act of writing the book was: the public exposure of a private confidence.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：「噓，毋通講出去」［……］這語詞透露著一種同謀關係。「噓，別告訴其他人，」和「別人不可以知道我告訴妳。」這是唯有我們兩人知道的秘密，同時也是別人不想讓我們知道的秘密。同謀的關係既維持又有所保留。保密的同時也洩密。從某層意義說，本書的寫作正是如此：將閨房私語公諸於世。(p.195-196)）
"Quiet as it's kept" is also a figure of speech that is written, in this instance, but clearly chosen for how speakerly it is, how it speaks and bespeaks a particular world and its ambience. Further, in addition to its "back fence" connotation, its suggestion of illicit gossip, of thrilling revelation, there is also, in the "whisper," the assumption (on the part of the reader) that the teller is on the inside and knows something others do not, and is going to be generous with this privileged information. The intimacy I was aiming for, the intimacy between the reader and the page, could start up immediately because the secret is being shared, at best, and eavesdropped upon, at the least.
（［臺灣］曾珍珍譯：「噓，毋通講出去」這一語詞，在這個例子中，雖然是寫出來的，但顯然是因其反映出說話者的語姿而中選，它使一個特定的世界及其周遭的存有呼之欲出。更進一步，除了「隔牆有耳」的弦外之音，暗示及不倫八卦、聳人聽聞的爆料之外，這「耳語」裡也有一種（讀者方面持有的）假設：說話的人是圈內人，知道別人不知道的事，而且會很慷慨地把獨享資訊提供出來。我所致力於建立的親暱，讀者和書頁間的親暱，可以因此立刻啟動；最佳狀況，秘密正被分享，至少，正被暗中聽見。(p.196)）
（Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye。諾貝爾文學獎1993年得獎者。童妮‧摩里森（Toni Morrison）著，曾珍珍譯：《最藍的眼睛》，臺北：臺灣商務印書館，2007年。）
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Lonely was much better than alone.
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. [...] You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own.
Song of Solomon
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”
― Toni Morrison, Tar Baby
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
You are your best thing.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
我們必須經常重覆宣揚真理，因為錯謬也有人在反覆宣傳，並且不是有個別的人而是有大量的人宣傳。
我不應把我的作品全歸功於自己的智慧，還應歸功於我以外向我提供素材的成千成萬的事情和人物。
我們為祖國服務，也不能都採用同一方式，每個人應該按照資稟，各盡所能。
只要我們能善用時間，就永遠不愁時間不夠用。
我要做的事，不過是伸手去收割旁人替我播種的莊稼而已。
凡不是就着淚水吃過麵包的人是不懂得人生之味的人。（5月10日名言）
真理就是火炬，同時也是一支巨大的火把。因此我們都想瞇着眼睛走過去，甚至擔心會被燙傷。
感覺並不會詐欺，判斷卻會。
自然不斷地建設，又不斷地破壞。自然的工廠是難以達成的。
寫歷史，乃是脫卻過去的一種方法。
我愛你，與你無關。
能分享他人痛苦的，是人；能分享他人快樂的，是神。
今天沒開始做的事，明天絕不會完成。
意志的力量無法成功的時候，只有等待好機遇的到來。
人在努力時一定會有迷惘的時候，只有在快樂和困惑的時候才能認識自己。
青春就是無酒自醉。
原文：Jugend ist Trunkenheit ohne Wein.
英文：Youth is intoxication without wine.
（〔德〕歌德（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe）(1749-1832)）
雄辯的真理一旦被認識就會衰竭。
（〔法〕阿爾貝．加繆（Albert Camus）（1913-1960）：《西西弗的神話》）
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
（（Republic of Ghana）Kofi Atta Annan）
在超級巨大的圈子裡，人們依靠符號、形象、甚至是直覺來做決定，而不是依靠真實的信息。
（《芝加哥學術生涯規劃──從研究生到終身教授》p.28）
Die Sinne trügen nicht, das Urteil trügt.
中譯：感覺不會騙人，判斷才會。
（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe歌德）
Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich an?
中譯：我愛你，與你何干？
（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe歌德）
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
(Katharine Houghton Hepburn)
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
（Anonymous）
中文意譯：一個人有沒有用你所喜歡/希冀/幻想的方法來對待你，跟他愛你與否、愛你的深淺，並無關係。
愛就是當你想著：我要如何使你快樂呢？而執著是想著：你怎麼不使我快樂呢？
（第七世竹慶本樂仁波切）
Five love languages: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch.
（Gary Chapman）
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
（Samuel Beckett）
Asians are slaves. They never look at the clock, they look at the money.
（A glossary-storekeeper in Gibraltar, replied to my question "Why are the stores here closed at an early time, 3pm?" June 2011）
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.
（Billy, age 4）
You love the way he said your name. you don't know why but it was just nice to hear coming out of his mouth.
（Big Time Rush Blog）
Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
Simplified: Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.
中譯：正義不僅要伸張；還須清晰無疑彰顯人前。
John Steinbeck — 'All great and precious things are lonely.'
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
- Martin Luther
Because this country is a Union. Not just a family of four nations. But a union of people – all of us. Whatever our background, the colour of our skin, or who we love. We stand together. And together we have a great future.
Our politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country. So much to be proud of. So much to be optimistic about. I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold – the second female Prime Minister but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill-will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.
- Theresa May (2019.05.24 Resignation Statement)
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
沒有人生來就是勇敢的，勇敢並不是不害怕，而是要假裝勇敢，並學會克服恐懼。
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
沒有人一生出來就會因為膚色、出身或宗教信仰去恨一個人，恨需要學習，既然人們可以學會恨，那麼同樣可以教會他們愛，愛比恨更容易走進人的內心。
- Nelson Mandela（曼德拉）
anyone who’s been to Oxbridge knows that our much-vaunted superiority is a complete scam. It’s only accumulated goodwill that keeps the whole bloody charade going: history graduates hire more history graduates, because they know no-one else will give them a job, probably for good reason (a historian myself, I should know.)
- Sam Richardson, "Debate: Why I Wouldn’t Hire An Oxbridge Graduate" (https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2012/05/16/why-i-wouldnt-hire-an-oxbridge-graduate/)
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.
- I've Never Been to Me (song)
Those who set their heart on money and possessions in confidence and trust represent the most common form of idolatry on earth.
- Martin Luther, "The First Commandment"
history is philosophy teaching by examples.
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "On the Study and Use of History, letter 2"
Becoming a Christian doesn’t necessarily make your life easier. It often makes it worse. These words of Jesus don’t normally find their way on an evangelistic tract: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me’ (Matt. 16:24).
- "Faith in Hard Times", Alex McCoy. Weekly Story of St Andrews Church Kowloon Hong Kong 2019.12.26
There are times when you are going to do well, and times when you're going to fail. But neither the doing well, nor the failure is the measure of success. The measure of success is what you think about what you've done. Let me put that another way: The way to be happy is to like yourself and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.
There's that old joke, not very funny, that goes, “No matter where you go, there you are.” That's true. The person who you're with most in life is yourself and if you don't like yourself you're always with somebody you don't like.
有時候你會幹得很漂亮，有時候你會失敗，但二者都不是衡量成功的標準。衡量成功的標準是你自己對你的所為怎麼看。讓我換一句話說：讓自己幸福的辦法是喜歡你自己，喜歡自己的辦法是只做讓你自己感到驕傲的事情。
有一個老笑話，不是很好笑，它是這麼說的：“無論你走到哪裡，你都在那裡。”這是真的。你一生中跟你在一起最多的人是你自己，如果你不喜歡你自己，那你就會總是跟你不喜歡的人在一起。
(2000.05.19 Marc S. Lewis 馬克·路易斯. Clinical psychology professor, University of Texas at Austin)
林夕詞，王菲唱：給自己的情書
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
- David M. Burns
The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose. In other words, it is determined to reach its destination. The bird senses that it can eat, rest and mate later. Right now it is totally focused on the journey; its undivided intent is arrival.
- “Great Migrations”, test 3 reading passage 2, IELTS 11
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust(1871-1922)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
When you are faced with unreasonable opposition, it is best to let unreasonable opposition speak, because they manifest themselves as unreasonable. And then everyone can see it. So that is part of the reason you want free speech.
- Jordan Peterson (McMaster University - March 21, 2017)
We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly, into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.
- "Dark" Se1Ep1
I miss the notion of him. I don't really know him. People can't really know each other.
What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean. (repeated in S3:E3 and S3:E8)
缺了他，生命根本不值一活。
若我身殞，你可會哀哭？
你可會為我哀哭？
（2019.01.03. "Drink with Me", from Les Misérables. Own translation）
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came
- "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables", Les Misérables
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself.
A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don’t matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.
― Toni Morrison, Love
“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
我們必須經常重覆宣揚真理，因為錯謬也有人在反覆宣傳，並且不是有個別的人而是有大量的人宣傳。
我不應把我的作品全歸功於自己的智慧，還應歸功於我以外向我提供素材的成千成萬的事情和人物。
我們為祖國服務，也不能都採用同一方式，每個人應該按照資稟，各盡所能。
只要我們能善用時間，就永遠不愁時間不夠用。
我要做的事，不過是伸手去收割旁人替我播種的莊稼而已。
凡不是就着淚水吃過麵包的人是不懂得人生之味的人。（5月10日名言）
真理就是火炬，同時也是一支巨大的火把。因此我們都想瞇着眼睛走過去，甚至擔心會被燙傷。
感覺並不會詐欺，判斷卻會。
自然不斷地建設，又不斷地破壞。自然的工廠是難以達成的。
寫歷史，乃是脫卻過去的一種方法。
我愛你，與你無關。
能分享他人痛苦的，是人；能分享他人快樂的，是神。
今天沒開始做的事，明天絕不會完成。
意志的力量無法成功的時候，只有等待好機遇的到來。
人在努力時一定會有迷惘的時候，只有在快樂和困惑的時候才能認識自己。
青春就是無酒自醉。
原文：Jugend ist Trunkenheit ohne Wein.
英文：Youth is intoxication without wine.
（〔德〕歌德（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe）(1749-1832)）
雄辯的真理一旦被認識就會衰竭。
（〔法〕阿爾貝．加繆（Albert Camus）（1913-1960）：《西西弗的神話》）
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
（（Republic of Ghana）Kofi Atta Annan）
在超級巨大的圈子裡，人們依靠符號、形象、甚至是直覺來做決定，而不是依靠真實的信息。
（《芝加哥學術生涯規劃──從研究生到終身教授》p.28）
Die Sinne trügen nicht, das Urteil trügt.
中譯：感覺不會騙人，判斷才會。
（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe歌德）
Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich an?
中譯：我愛你，與你何干？
（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe歌德）
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
(Katharine Houghton Hepburn)
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
（Anonymous）
中文意譯：一個人有沒有用你所喜歡/希冀/幻想的方法來對待你，跟他愛你與否、愛你的深淺，並無關係。
愛就是當你想著：我要如何使你快樂呢？而執著是想著：你怎麼不使我快樂呢？
（第七世竹慶本樂仁波切）
Five love languages: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch.
（Gary Chapman）
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
（Samuel Beckett）
Asians are slaves. They never look at the clock, they look at the money.
（A glossary-storekeeper in Gibraltar, replied to my question "Why are the stores here closed at an early time, 3pm?" June 2011）
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.
（Billy, age 4）
You love the way he said your name. you don't know why but it was just nice to hear coming out of his mouth.
（Big Time Rush Blog）
Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
Simplified: Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.
中譯：正義不僅要伸張；還須清晰無疑彰顯人前。
（Lord Chief Justice Hewart）
John Myers: (Closing Narration) What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
（〔美國〕《Hellboy》）
Man must be everyday, or he will not be at all.
陳劍青譯：人必須是日常的，否則他將不能完整。
（〔法國〕Henri Lefebvre列斐伏爾：Critique of everyday life）
Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have.
（〔美國〕John Powell: Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?）
Marissa: What do you think will happen if we don't end up together? We gonna hate each other? Do you think we'll keep in touch?
Josh: I think that if life separates us, and we end up in totally different places, I'll always remember when our paths aligned for this period of time, and I'll be thankful for that. I hope that wherever you are, you will be thankful too. And I think that's the best we can wish for.
（〔美國〕Wong Fu Productions: Strangers, again）
Common Sense is not a Gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone that doesn't have it.
（Web quote）
以下出自：http://www.graduationwisdom.com/quotes/best-graduation-quotes.htm
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
- Aaron Sorkin
It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
- Susan Sontag
Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.
- Jeff Bezos. Graduation Commencement Address at Princeton University 2010
Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are... To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on.
- Jerry Zucker
Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
- Tim Minchin
Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living— to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just do stuff, even if you don’t know precisely where it’s going to lead, because you don’t know precisely where it’s going to lead.
- Daniel Pink
You get to make your own luck. 80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.
- Steve Blank
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face — and there will be barriers — be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
- Sheryl Sandberg
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Even if you are on the right track... you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
Good has two meanings, it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
- Aristotle
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
- Albert Einstein
Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laught at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.
- Alan Alda
The opposite of love isn't hate. It isn't even indifference. It's fear.
- Mary Karr
以下出自：http://www.motivatingquotes.com/goalsq.htm
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
- Brian Tracy
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
- Jim Rohn
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
- Fitzhugh Dodson
Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
- Jim Rohn
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
- Samuel Insull
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
- Charles C. Noble
We all need lots of powerful long－range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
- Jim Rohn
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Zig Ziglar
If you go to work on your goals,your goals will go to work on you.If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Jim Rohn
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein
We all have two choices;We can make a living or we can design a life.
- Jim Rohn
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.
- Daniel Boone
An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
- Brian Tracy
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.
- Mark Victor Hansen
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.
- Hans Christian Andersen
An archer cannot hit the bull-eye if he doesn't know where the target is.
- Anonymous
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
- Anonymous
You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
- Anonymous
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two.
- Hugh B. Brown
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
- Robert Browning
Success equals goals; all else is commentary.
- Brian Tracy
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do . . . . Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't.
- James Gould Cozzens
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
- E. Joseph Crossman
There are two ways to face the future.One way is with apprehension; the otheris with anticipation.
- Jim Rohn
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
- Orison Swett Marden
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
- Neal A. Maxwell
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- Lucius Annus Seneca
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you...don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
- W. Clement Stone
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
- Zig Ziglar
Whatever the question, LOVE is always the answer.
中譯：莫論問題，愛是一切的答案。
(Life of Pi)
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
中譯：我猜，人生到頭來就是不斷地放下，但遺憾的是，我們卻來不及好好道別。
You'll always be with me. May God be with you.
中譯：你永遠與我同在，願神與你同在。
Science is very good at teaching us what is out there, but not what is in here.
中譯：科學讓我們認識外物，卻無法觀照內心。
Only fear can defeat life.
中譯：只有恐懼能夠擊敗生命。
Words are all I have left to hang on to.
中譯：語言是我惟一擁有的救命索。
He was such an evil man. But worse still, he brought the evil out in me. I have to live with that.
中譯：他是個很壞的人，但更壞的是，他激起了我內心的邪惡，我必須與這事實共存。
When you understand life and self are not used to overcome but to get along! You will understand some things although not reasonable, but you must believe, they are strong, you must rely on!
中譯：當你明白，人生和自我都不是用來戰勝而是用來相處的！你就會明白有些東西雖然並不合理，但你必須相信，那些東西強大，你必須依靠！
Have taken place, why must be meaningful.
中譯：發生就發生了，為何一定要有意義？
(Life of Pi)
極權主義是一種建立在敬畏、恐怖和暴力基礎上的系統。一個長時間生活在這個系統中的人會不知不覺成為這個系統的一部分。恐懼是陰險的，它很容易使一個人將恐懼當作自己生活的一部分，當作存在的一部分，而成為一種習慣。權力不會讓人腐敗，恐懼才是腐敗的根源。掌權者怕失去權力而腐敗、無權者怕受權力所蹂躪而腐敗。
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. [...] Fear stifles our sense of right and wrong. In any society where fear is rife corruption in all forms becomes deeply entrenched. [...] Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ — grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure. Within a system which denies basic human rights, fear is the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
（昂山素姬《恐懼與自由》當譯作：免於恐懼的自由Freedom from Fear (1991)）
朱國藩博士轉寄金言：
Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.
If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The best vitamin for making friends...B1.（屮注：Be one，成為別人的朋友）
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.（怨恨／忌恨）
One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.
You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless You do.
Your mind is like a parachute . . . it functions only when open.（降落傘）
The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back.
Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away.
Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.
Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late.
C.S. Lewis:
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.
勇氣不單是善德之一，更是在面對試煉──最實在的真實──時，諸德之原型。
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
We are what we believe we are.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
- Harriet Nelson
Sherlock: I am without peer. Without sane peer, anyway, which is functionally identical to being without peer, full stop. I can only extend so much of myself to a non-peer, which means I can only extend so much of myself to anyone. I've made progress, of course, but I don't know how much more growth there is within me. If I can never value a relationship properly, then, at what point do I stop trying to maintain them?
Meeting leader: You haven't turned your back on the world yet.
Sherlock: But I am without peer. And that's the greatest threat to my sobriety.
- Elementary, Season 02 Episode 21
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
中譯：寬恕也者，即紫羅蘭雖為人所踐，唯留餘香在其腳根。
- Mark Twain
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never share.
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence.
- Sound of Silence
Anywhere I go
I'm home
If you are there beside me
...
Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way
- Love Will Find a Way
Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
- Midnight in Paris
John Myers: (Closing Narration) What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
（〔美國〕《Hellboy》）
Man must be everyday, or he will not be at all.
陳劍青譯：人必須是日常的，否則他將不能完整。
（〔法國〕Henri Lefebvre列斐伏爾：Critique of everyday life）
Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have.
（〔美國〕John Powell: Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?）
Marissa: What do you think will happen if we don't end up together? We gonna hate each other? Do you think we'll keep in touch?
Josh: I think that if life separates us, and we end up in totally different places, I'll always remember when our paths aligned for this period of time, and I'll be thankful for that. I hope that wherever you are, you will be thankful too. And I think that's the best we can wish for.
（〔美國〕Wong Fu Productions: Strangers, again）
Common Sense is not a Gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone that doesn't have it.
（Web quote）
以下出自：http://www.graduationwisdom.com/quotes/best-graduation-quotes.htm
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
- Aaron Sorkin
It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
- Susan Sontag
Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.
- Jeff Bezos. Graduation Commencement Address at Princeton University 2010
Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are... To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on.
- Jerry Zucker
Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
- Tim Minchin
Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living— to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just do stuff, even if you don’t know precisely where it’s going to lead, because you don’t know precisely where it’s going to lead.
- Daniel Pink
You get to make your own luck. 80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.
- Steve Blank
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face — and there will be barriers — be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
- Sheryl Sandberg
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Even if you are on the right track... you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
Good has two meanings, it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
- Aristotle
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
- Albert Einstein
Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laught at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.
- Alan Alda
The opposite of love isn't hate. It isn't even indifference. It's fear.
- Mary Karr
以下出自：http://www.motivatingquotes.com/goalsq.htm
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
- Brian Tracy
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
- Jim Rohn
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
- Fitzhugh Dodson
Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
- Jim Rohn
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
- Samuel Insull
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
- Charles C. Noble
We all need lots of powerful long－range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
- Jim Rohn
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Zig Ziglar
If you go to work on your goals,your goals will go to work on you.If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Jim Rohn
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein
We all have two choices;We can make a living or we can design a life.
- Jim Rohn
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.
- Daniel Boone
An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
- Brian Tracy
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.
- Mark Victor Hansen
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.
- Hans Christian Andersen
An archer cannot hit the bull-eye if he doesn't know where the target is.
- Anonymous
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
- Anonymous
You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
- Anonymous
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two.
- Hugh B. Brown
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
- Robert Browning
Success equals goals; all else is commentary.
- Brian Tracy
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do . . . . Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't.
- James Gould Cozzens
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
- E. Joseph Crossman
There are two ways to face the future.One way is with apprehension; the otheris with anticipation.
- Jim Rohn
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
- Orison Swett Marden
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
- Neal A. Maxwell
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- Lucius Annus Seneca
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you...don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
- W. Clement Stone
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
- Zig Ziglar
Whatever the question, LOVE is always the answer.
中譯：莫論問題，愛是一切的答案。
(Life of Pi)
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
中譯：我猜，人生到頭來就是不斷地放下，但遺憾的是，我們卻來不及好好道別。
You'll always be with me. May God be with you.
中譯：你永遠與我同在，願神與你同在。
Science is very good at teaching us what is out there, but not what is in here.
中譯：科學讓我們認識外物，卻無法觀照內心。
Only fear can defeat life.
中譯：只有恐懼能夠擊敗生命。
Words are all I have left to hang on to.
中譯：語言是我惟一擁有的救命索。
He was such an evil man. But worse still, he brought the evil out in me. I have to live with that.
中譯：他是個很壞的人，但更壞的是，他激起了我內心的邪惡，我必須與這事實共存。
When you understand life and self are not used to overcome but to get along! You will understand some things although not reasonable, but you must believe, they are strong, you must rely on!
中譯：當你明白，人生和自我都不是用來戰勝而是用來相處的！你就會明白有些東西雖然並不合理，但你必須相信，那些東西強大，你必須依靠！
Have taken place, why must be meaningful.
中譯：發生就發生了，為何一定要有意義？
(Life of Pi)
極權主義是一種建立在敬畏、恐怖和暴力基礎上的系統。一個長時間生活在這個系統中的人會不知不覺成為這個系統的一部分。恐懼是陰險的，它很容易使一個人將恐懼當作自己生活的一部分，當作存在的一部分，而成為一種習慣。權力不會讓人腐敗，恐懼才是腐敗的根源。掌權者怕失去權力而腐敗、無權者怕受權力所蹂躪而腐敗。
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. [...] Fear stifles our sense of right and wrong. In any society where fear is rife corruption in all forms becomes deeply entrenched. [...] Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ — grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure. Within a system which denies basic human rights, fear is the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
（昂山素姬《恐懼與自由》當譯作：免於恐懼的自由Freedom from Fear (1991)）
朱國藩博士轉寄金言：
Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.
If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The best vitamin for making friends...B1.（屮注：Be one，成為別人的朋友）
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.（怨恨／忌恨）
One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.
You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless You do.
Your mind is like a parachute . . . it functions only when open.（降落傘）
The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back.
Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away.
Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.
Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late.
C.S. Lewis:
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.
勇氣不單是善德之一，更是在面對試煉──最實在的真實──時，諸德之原型。
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
We are what we believe we are.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
- Harriet Nelson
Sherlock: I am without peer. Without sane peer, anyway, which is functionally identical to being without peer, full stop. I can only extend so much of myself to a non-peer, which means I can only extend so much of myself to anyone. I've made progress, of course, but I don't know how much more growth there is within me. If I can never value a relationship properly, then, at what point do I stop trying to maintain them?
Meeting leader: You haven't turned your back on the world yet.
Sherlock: But I am without peer. And that's the greatest threat to my sobriety.
- Elementary, Season 02 Episode 21
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
中譯：寬恕也者，即紫羅蘭雖為人所踐，唯留餘香在其腳根。
- Mark Twain
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never share.
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence.
- Sound of Silence
Anywhere I go
I'm home
If you are there beside me
...
Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way
- Love Will Find a Way
Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
- Midnight in Paris
We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
- Midnight in Paris
I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face.
- Midnight in Paris
Bill Gates cites Warren Buffett: The measure of success is whether the people close to you are happy and love you.
- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have the same definition of success—and it has nothing to do with money, CNBC 2017.02.28
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
Legends are lessons. They ring with truth.
-Brave (Pixar production)
The only person who can save you is you. The only person you can really forgive is you.
We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- Hotel California
Hello darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again.
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never shared.
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence.
- The Sound of Silence
Common sense is not so common
- Voltaire, 1764
Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
- Frankl, 1959, p. 115
The organization man seeks a redefinition of his place on earth – a faith that will satisfy him that what he must endure has a deeper meaning than appears on the surface.
- Whyte, 1956, p. 6
I love you So much. I just don't like you anymore. 我很愛你，只是我不再喜歡你了。
- One day
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
所謂現實只不過是個錯覺，雖然這個錯覺非常持久。
原文:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
如果我的相對論被證明是正確的，德國人就會說我是德國人，法國佬會說我是一個世界公民。如果我的相對論被否定了，法國佬就會罵我德國鬼子，而德國人就會把我歸為猶太人。
原文：If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will say I am a man of the world. If it's proven wrong, France will say I am a German and Germany will say I am a Jew.
我每天提醒自己一百遍，我的生活，不管內在或是外在，都是以他人（包括活著的和逝去的）努力的成果為基礎。所以我必須盡力奉獻自己，希望能以同等的貢獻，來回報長久以來從他人身上所獲得的一切。
原文：A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
道德毫無神聖之處；皆因只是人之常情。
原文：There is nothing divine about morality；it is a purely human affair.
我喜歡旅行，但不喜歡到達目的地。
原文：I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
物理學家們說我是數學家，數學家們又把我歸為物理工作者。我是一個完全孤立的人，雖然所有人都認識我，卻沒有多少人真正了解我。
原文：The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
不要試圖去做一個成功的人，要努力成為一個有價值的人。（3月9日名言）
原文:Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
每個人都是天才。但如果你用爬樹的能力評斷一條魚，它將終其一生覺得自己是個笨蛋
原文：Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
天才和愚蠢之間的區別就是天才是有極限的。
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Adriana: But if we love each other what does it matter when we live?
Gil: Because if you stay here and this becomes your present, sooner or later you’ll imagine another time was really the golden time. And so will I – I’m beginning to see why it can’t work, Adriana. The present has a hold on you because it’s your present and while there’s never any progress in the most important things, you get to appreciate – what little progress is made – the internet–Pepto-Bismol. The present is always going to seem unsatisfying because life itself is unsatisfying – that’s why Gauguin goes back and forth between Paris and Tahiti, searching – it’s my job as a writer to try and come up with reasons why despite life being tragic and unsatisfying, it’s still worth it.
Adriana: That's the problem with writers – you're all so full of words – but I'm more emotional. I'm going to stay and live in Paris' most glorious time. You made a choice to leave Paris once and you regretted it.
Gil: Yes, that one I regretted but it was a real choice and I made the wrong one. This is a choice between accepting reality or surreal insanity.
Adriana: So... Goodbye, Gil? [She gives Gil a goodbye kiss and looks back when walking back to the group.]
Gil: Goodbye.
- Midnight in ParisBill Gates cites Warren Buffett: The measure of success is whether the people close to you are happy and love you.
- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have the same definition of success—and it has nothing to do with money, CNBC 2017.02.28
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
Legends are lessons. They ring with truth.
-Brave (Pixar production)
The only person who can save you is you. The only person you can really forgive is you.
We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- Hotel California
Hello darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again.
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never shared.
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence.
- The Sound of Silence
Common sense is not so common
- Voltaire, 1764
Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
- Frankl, 1959, p. 115
The organization man seeks a redefinition of his place on earth – a faith that will satisfy him that what he must endure has a deeper meaning than appears on the surface.
- Whyte, 1956, p. 6
I love you So much. I just don't like you anymore. 我很愛你，只是我不再喜歡你了。
- One day
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
所謂現實只不過是個錯覺，雖然這個錯覺非常持久。
原文:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
如果我的相對論被證明是正確的，德國人就會說我是德國人，法國佬會說我是一個世界公民。如果我的相對論被否定了，法國佬就會罵我德國鬼子，而德國人就會把我歸為猶太人。
原文：If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will say I am a man of the world. If it's proven wrong, France will say I am a German and Germany will say I am a Jew.
我每天提醒自己一百遍，我的生活，不管內在或是外在，都是以他人（包括活著的和逝去的）努力的成果為基礎。所以我必須盡力奉獻自己，希望能以同等的貢獻，來回報長久以來從他人身上所獲得的一切。
原文：A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
道德毫無神聖之處；皆因只是人之常情。
原文：There is nothing divine about morality；it is a purely human affair.
我喜歡旅行，但不喜歡到達目的地。
原文：I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
物理學家們說我是數學家，數學家們又把我歸為物理工作者。我是一個完全孤立的人，雖然所有人都認識我，卻沒有多少人真正了解我。
原文：The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
不要試圖去做一個成功的人，要努力成為一個有價值的人。（3月9日名言）
原文:Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
每個人都是天才。但如果你用爬樹的能力評斷一條魚，它將終其一生覺得自己是個笨蛋
原文：Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
天才和愚蠢之間的區別就是天才是有極限的。
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
聰慧有限，戇鳩無窮。
- Albert Einstein（甚可疑）John Steinbeck — 'All great and precious things are lonely.'
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
- Martin Luther
Because this country is a Union. Not just a family of four nations. But a union of people – all of us. Whatever our background, the colour of our skin, or who we love. We stand together. And together we have a great future.
Our politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country. So much to be proud of. So much to be optimistic about. I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold – the second female Prime Minister but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill-will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.
- Theresa May (2019.05.24 Resignation Statement)
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
沒有人生來就是勇敢的，勇敢並不是不害怕，而是要假裝勇敢，並學會克服恐懼。
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
沒有人一生出來就會因為膚色、出身或宗教信仰去恨一個人，恨需要學習，既然人們可以學會恨，那麼同樣可以教會他們愛，愛比恨更容易走進人的內心。
- Nelson Mandela（曼德拉）
anyone who’s been to Oxbridge knows that our much-vaunted superiority is a complete scam. It’s only accumulated goodwill that keeps the whole bloody charade going: history graduates hire more history graduates, because they know no-one else will give them a job, probably for good reason (a historian myself, I should know.)
- Sam Richardson, "Debate: Why I Wouldn’t Hire An Oxbridge Graduate" (https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2012/05/16/why-i-wouldnt-hire-an-oxbridge-graduate/)
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.
- I've Never Been to Me (song)
Those who set their heart on money and possessions in confidence and trust represent the most common form of idolatry on earth.
- Martin Luther, "The First Commandment"
history is philosophy teaching by examples.
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "On the Study and Use of History, letter 2"
Becoming a Christian doesn’t necessarily make your life easier. It often makes it worse. These words of Jesus don’t normally find their way on an evangelistic tract: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me’ (Matt. 16:24).
- "Faith in Hard Times", Alex McCoy. Weekly Story of St Andrews Church Kowloon Hong Kong 2019.12.26
There are times when you are going to do well, and times when you're going to fail. But neither the doing well, nor the failure is the measure of success. The measure of success is what you think about what you've done. Let me put that another way: The way to be happy is to like yourself and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.
There's that old joke, not very funny, that goes, “No matter where you go, there you are.” That's true. The person who you're with most in life is yourself and if you don't like yourself you're always with somebody you don't like.
有時候你會幹得很漂亮，有時候你會失敗，但二者都不是衡量成功的標準。衡量成功的標準是你自己對你的所為怎麼看。讓我換一句話說：讓自己幸福的辦法是喜歡你自己，喜歡自己的辦法是只做讓你自己感到驕傲的事情。
有一個老笑話，不是很好笑，它是這麼說的：“無論你走到哪裡，你都在那裡。”這是真的。你一生中跟你在一起最多的人是你自己，如果你不喜歡你自己，那你就會總是跟你不喜歡的人在一起。
(2000.05.19 Marc S. Lewis 馬克·路易斯. Clinical psychology professor, University of Texas at Austin)
林夕詞，王菲唱：給自己的情書
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
- David M. Burns
The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose. In other words, it is determined to reach its destination. The bird senses that it can eat, rest and mate later. Right now it is totally focused on the journey; its undivided intent is arrival.
- “Great Migrations”, test 3 reading passage 2, IELTS 11
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust(1871-1922)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
When you are faced with unreasonable opposition, it is best to let unreasonable opposition speak, because they manifest themselves as unreasonable. And then everyone can see it. So that is part of the reason you want free speech.
- Jordan Peterson (McMaster University - March 21, 2017)
We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly, into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.
- "Dark" Se1Ep1
I miss the notion of him. I don't really know him. People can't really know each other.
What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean. (repeated in S3:E3 and S3:E8)
- "Dark" Se1Ep3
The truth is a strange thing. You can try to suppress it, but it will always find its way back to the surface. We make a lie into our truth in order to survive. We try to forget. Until we can't anymore. We don't know even half of the mysteries of this world. We are wanderers in the darkness.
- "Dark" Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
And so we all die alike. No matter into which house we are born. No matter which town. Whether we grace the earth briefly or for a long time. I alone tie my bonds. Whether I have extended hands or slapped them. We all face the same end. Those above have long forgotten us. They do not judge us. In death, I am all alone. And my only judge is me.
- "Dark" Season 1 Episode 6
Every decision for something is a decision against something else.
For 33 years I've been imagining that he's alive. Free and happy.
You can never give up hope. There's as much light out there as there is darkness. Don't forget that.
- "Dark" S1E7: Crossroads
What's past is past, but you live in here and now.
Why do we decide for one thing and against another? But does it matter whether the decision is based upon the consequence of a series of causal links? Or that instead it stems from an undefined feeling inside me? Perhaps everything in my life boils down to this one moment. That I’m part of this puzzle. One that I can neither understand nor influence.
Will you tell me… what the future’s like?
I’m hoping that by tomorrow, it’ll already be different from today.
our pain defines who you are but it no longer holds power on you.
We're not free in what we do, because we're not free in what we want. We can't overcome what's deep within us.
Most people are nothing but pawns on a chessboard. Led by an unknown hand. Their lives exist only to be sacrificed for a higher goal.
There are two groups out there fighting to control time travel. Light and shadow. We belong to the light. Don’t forget that. Even though some of what we do is of a dark nature. But no victory is ever won without sacrifice. As long as we’re in this time loop we who know have to make sure that every step will be repeated exactly as it was before. No matter how inhumane it seems to us. No matter what sacrifices it demands of us. But believe me, the others are the ones who are truly inhumane. They have lost all humanity. They belong to the shadow.
Time is an infinite field. Millions and millions of interlocking wheels. We have to be patient to be victorious. But our time will come. We will free humanity from its immaturity. From its pain.
- "Dark" S1E10: Alpha and Omega
There are no coincidences. Every path is predetermined. Everything happens when it is supposed to. At the right time. At the right place.
It is all a matter of timing.
How do we know what is right and what is wrong? What is good and what is evil?
By listening to our inner voice and choosing not to follow anyone but ourselves. Our true character shows not only in our deeds but also in their purpose.
Expectations lead to disappointment. Have hope, not expectations. You might just be surprised, but not disappointed.
I exist for every second between my birth and my death. But I am always Jonas. I am the same as I was, and yet not the same. Just as you are not the same person who came through that door an hour ago.
- "Dark" S2E1: Beginnings and Endings
The secrets are never the problem, it is what everyone in this town projects.
In the end, life is just a collection of missed opportunities.
Everybody gets what they deserve.
- "Dark" S2:E2: Dark Matter
Things take their course the way they always have.
In the end, we will all get just what we deserve.
- "Dark" S2:E3: Ghosts
It did not make any sense, yet it was the only way anything else made sense.
Everything is going to happen the way it always has.
- "Dark" S2:E4: The Travelers
A man lives three lives. The first one ends with the loss of naïveté. The second, with the loss of innocence. And The third, with the loss of life itself. It is inevitable that we will go through all three stages.
- "Dark" S2:E5: Lost and Found (and repeated in S3:E5: Life and Death)
Will we ever be able to know the origin of it all? Or will there always be something that came before? And before that, and before that. Is there a beginning and an end? Or is everything connected in one endless loop? Do the words “beginning” and “end” describe the same exact moment?
Why does everyone say that? To “have time.” How can you say that when it's time that has us?
- "Dark" S2:E6: An Endless Cycle
Man is a strange creature: all his actions are motivated by desire, his character forged by pain. As much as he may try to suppress that pain, to repress the desire, he cannot free himself from the eternal servitude to his feelings. For as long as the storm rages in within him, he cannot find peace. Not in life, not in death. And so, he will do what he must, day in, day out. The pain is his vessel, desire his compass. It is all that man is capable of.
another version:
People are peculiar creatures. All their actions are driven by desire, their character forged by pain. As much as they might try to suppress the pain, to repress desire, they cannot liberate themselves from eternal servitude to their feelings. As long as the storm rages within them, they can find no peace. Not in life, not in death. And so, day after day, they will do all that must be done. Pain is their ship, desire their compass. It is all that humankind is capable of.
- "Dark" S2:E7: The White Devil
We are never free in what we do because our will is not free either.
We cannot escape our fate. None of us.
Only when we have freed ourselves of emotion can we be truly free. Only when you are willing to sacrifice what you hold dearest.
We fasten ourselves to the salvation that is promised.
- "Dark" S2:E8: Endings and Beginnings
We can indulge in the illusion of free will, but we cannot escape our ultimate destiny. The choices we make in this world may be different, but nevertheless, they converge at the same moment. Things may not happen in the same way, or at the same time. But they do happen. (the last two sentences also in S3:E8: The Paradise)
- "Dark" S3:E2:
The deads are never truly dead. Maybe they're not here, now. But everything that once lived, lives on forever in the eternity of time.
- "Dark" S3:E3: Adam and Eva
Not all human connections are formed out of fondness.
Why does destiny preordain all that's good for some and not for others?
The ways of the heart cannot be explained. It does what it wants.
Hell is what we make for ourselves on Earth.
- "Dark" S3:E4: The Origin
Man can do what he wills, but not will what he wills.
人能為其所願，莫能願其所願。
There won't be any happiness in any stage in life where you can't be yourself.
I think we ought to live happily ever after.
A heart's a heavy burden.
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world
The love you give out becomes courage; the love returned becomes your strength.
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Seeing how other people have lived their lives, it’s hard not to think about your own choices, about how life has carried you to this point and what might have been, especially when you’re nearing the end.
For so many women who brought up families in previous generations, their needs were always put last. Their husbands and children and extended families always got precedence over their own ambitions or desires. My mum never had a hobby, she never joined a book club or took time to herself. There was always washing to be done, cleaning to be finished, even when she got home after a long day working in an office. We always presume retirement will be the time we finally get to take life in, to take up that hobby, follow a dream. But life doesn’t respect those plans, life doesn’t care if you’ve put things off.
- “My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip”, by Sam Walker. Published: 05:00 Wednesday, 19 February 2020 The Guardians
Pope Benedict : So matters is what you believe, but not what the churches was taught for hundreds of years.
Pope Francis : No... Mark chapter 2 verse 17, "I came to call sinners." The church has taught thousands of years.
Pope Francis : I changed.
Pope Benedict : No, you compromised!
Pope Francis : No, I changed! It's a different thing.
Pope Francis : Speaking English is exhausting.
Pope Benedict : Terrible language - so many exceptions to every rule.
Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.
It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.
The truth may be vital, but without love, it is unbearable.
- The Two Popes (2019)
I May Hate You More, But I'll Never Love You Less.
Toxic relationships like the one exemplified in Revolutionary Road is the theme of The Persuaders’ famous line “It’s a thin line between love and hate.”
2018.12.26 - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mysteries-love/201812/i-may-hate-you-more-ill-never-love-you-less
In a series of studies, Vivian Zayas and Yuichi Shoda found that people don’t just love or hate significant others. They love and hate them—and that’s normal. The key to getting through the inevitable hard times, as my own research suggests, is to never stop trying to understand where your partner is coming from.
2017.07.12 - https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_to_do_when_you_hate_the_one_you_love
[footnote 29: ] Many works, including Craig Clunas's Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early [Modern] China (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991) and Ronald Egan's forthcoming study of Ouyang Xiu, demonstrate that "antiquity" was a vague term that often referred to a time only a few generations back. See also Wang Yao's 王瑤 important essay on imitating the past, authorship, and "filling in what's missing," in his Zhonggu wenxue shi lun 中古文學史論 (Beijing: Beijing daxue, 1996), pp. 218- 28. We in the early China field should not conclude, as we often do, that "antiquity" referred only to the distant past, the time of the sage-kings.
- Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nylan, “Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions Through Exemplary Figures in Early China,” T’oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 89, Fasc. 1/3 (2003) p. 72.
A space becomes a place when it becomes invested with meanings by those who use it.
- Pauline Maclaran and Stephen Brown, "From Space to Place: Creating Utopian Meanings in a Festival Marketplace", in Michael R. Soloman, Gary Bamossy, Soren Askegaard, and Margaret K. Hogg eds., Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective (Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2006, third edition), 393.
Will the world remember you when you fall?
Could it be your death means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?
Life without Cosette means nothing at all.
Would you weep, Cosette, if I were to fall?
Will you weep, Cosette, for me?
你身殞滅，世界可會記住？
你身死亡，是否不值一哂？
你命會否無非又一誑語？
The truth is a strange thing. You can try to suppress it, but it will always find its way back to the surface. We make a lie into our truth in order to survive. We try to forget. Until we can't anymore. We don't know even half of the mysteries of this world. We are wanderers in the darkness.
- "Dark" Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
And so we all die alike. No matter into which house we are born. No matter which town. Whether we grace the earth briefly or for a long time. I alone tie my bonds. Whether I have extended hands or slapped them. We all face the same end. Those above have long forgotten us. They do not judge us. In death, I am all alone. And my only judge is me.
- "Dark" Season 1 Episode 6
Every decision for something is a decision against something else.
For 33 years I've been imagining that he's alive. Free and happy.
You can never give up hope. There's as much light out there as there is darkness. Don't forget that.
- "Dark" S1E7: Crossroads
What's past is past, but you live in here and now.
Why do we decide for one thing and against another? But does it matter whether the decision is based upon the consequence of a series of causal links? Or that instead it stems from an undefined feeling inside me? Perhaps everything in my life boils down to this one moment. That I’m part of this puzzle. One that I can neither understand nor influence.
Will you tell me… what the future’s like?
I’m hoping that by tomorrow, it’ll already be different from today.
our pain defines who you are but it no longer holds power on you.
We're not free in what we do, because we're not free in what we want. We can't overcome what's deep within us.
Most people are nothing but pawns on a chessboard. Led by an unknown hand. Their lives exist only to be sacrificed for a higher goal.
There are two groups out there fighting to control time travel. Light and shadow. We belong to the light. Don’t forget that. Even though some of what we do is of a dark nature. But no victory is ever won without sacrifice. As long as we’re in this time loop we who know have to make sure that every step will be repeated exactly as it was before. No matter how inhumane it seems to us. No matter what sacrifices it demands of us. But believe me, the others are the ones who are truly inhumane. They have lost all humanity. They belong to the shadow.
Time is an infinite field. Millions and millions of interlocking wheels. We have to be patient to be victorious. But our time will come. We will free humanity from its immaturity. From its pain.
- "Dark" S1E10: Alpha and Omega
There are no coincidences. Every path is predetermined. Everything happens when it is supposed to. At the right time. At the right place.
It is all a matter of timing.
How do we know what is right and what is wrong? What is good and what is evil?
By listening to our inner voice and choosing not to follow anyone but ourselves. Our true character shows not only in our deeds but also in their purpose.
Expectations lead to disappointment. Have hope, not expectations. You might just be surprised, but not disappointed.
I exist for every second between my birth and my death. But I am always Jonas. I am the same as I was, and yet not the same. Just as you are not the same person who came through that door an hour ago.
- "Dark" S2E1: Beginnings and Endings
The secrets are never the problem, it is what everyone in this town projects.
In the end, life is just a collection of missed opportunities.
Everybody gets what they deserve.
- "Dark" S2:E2: Dark Matter
Things take their course the way they always have.
In the end, we will all get just what we deserve.
- "Dark" S2:E3: Ghosts
It did not make any sense, yet it was the only way anything else made sense.
Everything is going to happen the way it always has.
- "Dark" S2:E4: The Travelers
A man lives three lives. The first one ends with the loss of naïveté. The second, with the loss of innocence. And The third, with the loss of life itself. It is inevitable that we will go through all three stages.
- "Dark" S2:E5: Lost and Found (and repeated in S3:E5: Life and Death)
Will we ever be able to know the origin of it all? Or will there always be something that came before? And before that, and before that. Is there a beginning and an end? Or is everything connected in one endless loop? Do the words “beginning” and “end” describe the same exact moment?
Why does everyone say that? To “have time.” How can you say that when it's time that has us?
- "Dark" S2:E6: An Endless Cycle
Man is a strange creature: all his actions are motivated by desire, his character forged by pain. As much as he may try to suppress that pain, to repress the desire, he cannot free himself from the eternal servitude to his feelings. For as long as the storm rages in within him, he cannot find peace. Not in life, not in death. And so, he will do what he must, day in, day out. The pain is his vessel, desire his compass. It is all that man is capable of.
another version:
People are peculiar creatures. All their actions are driven by desire, their character forged by pain. As much as they might try to suppress the pain, to repress desire, they cannot liberate themselves from eternal servitude to their feelings. As long as the storm rages within them, they can find no peace. Not in life, not in death. And so, day after day, they will do all that must be done. Pain is their ship, desire their compass. It is all that humankind is capable of.
- "Dark" S2:E7: The White Devil
We are never free in what we do because our will is not free either.
We cannot escape our fate. None of us.
Only when we have freed ourselves of emotion can we be truly free. Only when you are willing to sacrifice what you hold dearest.
We fasten ourselves to the salvation that is promised.
- "Dark" S2:E8: Endings and Beginnings
We can indulge in the illusion of free will, but we cannot escape our ultimate destiny. The choices we make in this world may be different, but nevertheless, they converge at the same moment. Things may not happen in the same way, or at the same time. But they do happen. (the last two sentences also in S3:E8: The Paradise)
- "Dark" S3:E2:
The deads are never truly dead. Maybe they're not here, now. But everything that once lived, lives on forever in the eternity of time.
- "Dark" S3:E3: Adam and Eva
Not all human connections are formed out of fondness.
Why does destiny preordain all that's good for some and not for others?
The ways of the heart cannot be explained. It does what it wants.
Hell is what we make for ourselves on Earth.
- "Dark" S3:E4: The Origin
有些時候我們會誤會穿越時空、改變時間，便可以改變歷史。但這是個邏輯死局：我們或許可以改變歷史、改易時間，但我們自己已經老去卻是個不爭的史實。最少，我們無法改變自己。因為時間不會走圓圈，而是直線前進，我們充其量只能以老去的身份來製造一個平行時空，又或，一切都不會根本地改變，會發生的終究會發生，也許只稍稍改易時間、地點、人物，歸根結柢，一切如常。
2020.07.07 牛津 觀Dark有感
my place isn't in the last nor in the future. But here, with you.
- "Dark" S3:E5: Life and Death
We have to let some things go before they find their way back to us.
Every darkness is followed by light. With every death comes a life.
- "Dark" S3:E6: Light and Shadow
We can never undo any decisions in our life. The only thing we can do is to remedy them.
2020.07.13 Oxford 觀Dark有感
A person is able to pursue a goal, no matter how unattainable it may seem, over the course of an entire lifetime. No resistance, no obstacle is great enough to stop one from pursuing one's will. Is this stubbornness in our striving not that which distinguishes us from animals, which know only short-lived desire? And isn't all progress, through all ages, not the product of this unquenchable act of will? No matter what motivates our will, it will guide us on this path. We will only be able to let go when we have finally attained out goal once and for all.
All the paths we take in our lives, every decision that we make, is guided by that which we desire deep inside ourselves. We cannot fight that desire. It determines every one of our deeds, no matter how grave and unimaginable they seem.
Everything in life happens in cycles. Sunset is followed by sunrise, over and over.
Some pain is never forgotten. It brands us for our entire life.
- "Dark" S3:E7: In Between Time
you did out of love. And yet you have brought nothing but pain and suffering.
You have been trying to escape what you will become. But that's impossible. In the end, you will always stand face to face with yourselves.
We have no free will to act in either world. We will forever do what we have always done before.
Life is a labyrinth. Some wander around inside it until their death, in search of a way out. But there is only one path, and it leads ever deeper inside. Only when one reaches center will one understand.
Death is incomprehensible. But one can make peace with it.
Every pain entices us to act, shapes our will.
Martha: Do you think anything of us will remain? Or is that what we are? A dream? And we never really existed?
Jonas: I don't know.
Jonas: We're a perfect match. Never believe anything else.
I had this peculiar feeling that it was a good thing for everything to be over. Like suddenly being free of everything. No wanting. No having to. Infinite darkness. No yesterday. No today. No tomorrow. Nothing.
- "Dark" S3:E8: The Paradise
Man can do what he wills, but not will what he wills.
人能為其所願，莫能願其所願。
- 叔本華 Arthur Schopenhauer
三代死結。死結因科學家之執念而生，而結中人亦人人各執其念。結既不可解，亦不可自解，必待外求方解。而結一如其圖所示，乃內部完足，自身內在諸人各跨其代，亦由此前代誕後代，而弔詭不可解地後代又穿越過去反生前代。
最後在「現實世界」出現者，即非死結中人，亦即，本在原初世界已存，非因科學家執念而生於平行世界者。死結解後，本非結中人即不受影響繼續其生活。因是，最後一幕不見如下諸人，自是理所宜然：Ulrich與Mads兄弟俱不存，最初穿越即不存在。Mads不會消失而亡，Ulrich子Mikkel亦不見諸世。Hannah由是不可與穿越後之Mikkel（後Michael）結合而生Jonas。科學家孫女Charlotte亦自生活，與Winden諸人不相干涉，故不見於最後一幕。Peter自與其同性情人斯混，不生Elisabeth，由是其不可穿越而與Noah（亦在結中）結合反生其母Charlotte，一家自我循環。Charlotte不亡於原初世界，科學家亦無由收取不明來歷之Charlotte。Ulrich不存，故Katharina毋嫁，不知是否單身，但由是Martha亦不存於世。Claudia消失可證其亦在結中，唯其愛女Regina不涉大結，結解後即於Winden自存，可避新世界中身罹癌魔之苦。
感想：
Jonas不是受夠了，而是他明白，如此永劫循環下去只能是彼此相殺。而Martha對此亦深明其理，但她選擇的是安詳地躺在循環當中，繼續成就這循環，繼續與不同世界的Jonas對抗、帶領不同世界的Martha走上同一條道路、指派親生獨子完成循環所需的殺戮。這是場永無終局的循環，是你生我、我生你；你中有我、我中有你；你成就我、我成就你的永劫循環相殺——正如那三連knot。他們仍是彼此相愛，而正正是他們對彼此不可自制的感情，方使他們永遠都會選擇走上同一條道路、永遠都以不同形式活在不斷重複的世界當中。
在首個世界（首季），老去的Jonas想打破循環，因而選擇殺死Martha。但不料，永劫循環中另一世界的Martha卻持相反見解，她努力維繫循環。兩人所為，卻恰正是天作之合，不論是破壞或成就，一舉一動均互相牽引互動，成就永劫循環。二人缺一不可，在相殺中冥冥造就相生，由是產生一個又一個永遠互相緊扣、今昔互轉、自我循環的死結。所殺者或不同，所為者或小異，但終究注定是新世界所生者互相依戀、相愛相殺，而原初世界諸人則命運亦受牽連。Jonas and Martha二人是真正的Adam and Eve，完美詮釋了劇中句子「We're a perfect match. Never believe anything else.」二君所為相反而正正相成，乃太極圓轉，你我互生。
最巧妙的是，不斷循環的世界當中或有大異小異（盲眼或斷臂；失聰者異），但本質則一，同是指向不可衝破的永劫循環。此中全同本人之歷史觀：人力不如天運。天運之必然，人力終只可小易其時或細節，其大節則絕不可移。天意人事，畢竟前者為勝。人難勝天。
2020.07.16 牛津
There won't be any happiness in any stage in life where you can't be yourself.
I think we ought to live happily ever after.
A heart's a heavy burden.
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world
The love you give out becomes courage; the love returned becomes your strength.
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Seeing how other people have lived their lives, it’s hard not to think about your own choices, about how life has carried you to this point and what might have been, especially when you’re nearing the end.
For so many women who brought up families in previous generations, their needs were always put last. Their husbands and children and extended families always got precedence over their own ambitions or desires. My mum never had a hobby, she never joined a book club or took time to herself. There was always washing to be done, cleaning to be finished, even when she got home after a long day working in an office. We always presume retirement will be the time we finally get to take life in, to take up that hobby, follow a dream. But life doesn’t respect those plans, life doesn’t care if you’ve put things off.
- “My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip”, by Sam Walker. Published: 05:00 Wednesday, 19 February 2020 The Guardians
Pope Benedict : So matters is what you believe, but not what the churches was taught for hundreds of years.
Pope Francis : No... Mark chapter 2 verse 17, "I came to call sinners." The church has taught thousands of years.
Pope Francis : I changed.
Pope Benedict : No, you compromised!
Pope Francis : No, I changed! It's a different thing.
Pope Francis : Speaking English is exhausting.
Pope Benedict : Terrible language - so many exceptions to every rule.
Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.
It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.
The truth may be vital, but without love, it is unbearable.
- The Two Popes (2019)
I May Hate You More, But I'll Never Love You Less.
Toxic relationships like the one exemplified in Revolutionary Road is the theme of The Persuaders’ famous line “It’s a thin line between love and hate.”
2018.12.26 - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mysteries-love/201812/i-may-hate-you-more-ill-never-love-you-less
In a series of studies, Vivian Zayas and Yuichi Shoda found that people don’t just love or hate significant others. They love and hate them—and that’s normal. The key to getting through the inevitable hard times, as my own research suggests, is to never stop trying to understand where your partner is coming from.
2017.07.12 - https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_to_do_when_you_hate_the_one_you_love
[footnote 29: ] Many works, including Craig Clunas's Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early [Modern] China (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991) and Ronald Egan's forthcoming study of Ouyang Xiu, demonstrate that "antiquity" was a vague term that often referred to a time only a few generations back. See also Wang Yao's 王瑤 important essay on imitating the past, authorship, and "filling in what's missing," in his Zhonggu wenxue shi lun 中古文學史論 (Beijing: Beijing daxue, 1996), pp. 218- 28. We in the early China field should not conclude, as we often do, that "antiquity" referred only to the distant past, the time of the sage-kings.
- Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nylan, “Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions Through Exemplary Figures in Early China,” T’oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 89, Fasc. 1/3 (2003) p. 72.
A space becomes a place when it becomes invested with meanings by those who use it.
- Pauline Maclaran and Stephen Brown, "From Space to Place: Creating Utopian Meanings in a Festival Marketplace", in Michael R. Soloman, Gary Bamossy, Soren Askegaard, and Margaret K. Hogg eds., Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective (Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2006, third edition), 393.
Will the world remember you when you fall?
Could it be your death means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?
Life without Cosette means nothing at all.
Would you weep, Cosette, if I were to fall?
Will you weep, Cosette, for me?
你身殞滅，世界可會記住？
你身死亡，是否不值一哂？
你命會否無非又一誑語？
缺了他，生命根本不值一活。
若我身殞，你可會哀哭？
你可會為我哀哭？
（2019.01.03. "Drink with Me", from Les Misérables. Own translation）
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came
- "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables", Les Misérables
The quality of any relationship normally depends on the quality of the communication.
- Alex McCoy, "The Master Class on Prayer" Jul 15, 2020 (http://www.standrews.org.hk/stories/the-master-class-on-prayer/)
慾望只是讓人享樂，而快樂是讓人開心。
美麗是不可以論斤足兩討價還價的，因為它的光彩奪目完全超越了任何想配得上它的努力，也因為沒有任何人能夠賦予它一種完全對等的美麗。因此美麗只能自我消滅。
空間就是讓一切不位於同一個地方的東西。語言就是讓一切不意味同一樣東西的東西。
- Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
處世的智慧教導人們寧可依循傳統而失敗，也不願意打破傳統而成功。
- John Maynard Keynes
Not Waving But Drowning 中英對照：
不是揮手而是求救
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.
沒人聽得見他，這個要死的人
但他仍然在呻吟
遠遠不是你們想的那樣
我不是在揮手而是在求救
可憐的小伙子，他總喜歡嬉鬧玩耍
現在他死了
一定是因為他太冷了，心臟才停止了跳動
他們說到。
不，不是，它一直很冷
（要死的人還在呻吟著）
我遠離我的生活了
揮手只是在求救。
- Stevie Smith (1902 – 1971), 'Not Waving But Drowning' (1957)
Dark's nothing to be afraid of. In fact, I'd go as far as saying there's nothing to be afraid of. Anywhere. The strongest person is the person who isn't scared to be alone. It's other people you got to worry about. Other people. They'll tell you what to do, how to feel. Before you know it, you're pouring your life out in search of something other people told you to go look for. Someday, you're gonna be all alone, so you need to figure out how to take care of yourself.
- The Queen's Gambit, episode 5 (2020)
Men are gonna come along and wanna teach you things. You just let them blow-by, and you go on ahead and do just what the hell you feel like.
- The Queen's Gambit, episode 6 (2020)
For a time, I was all you had. And for a time, you was all I had. We weren’t orphans. Not as long as we had each other. You understand what I’m saying? I’m not your guardian angel. I’m not here to save you. Hell, I can barely save me. I’m here because you need me to be here. That’s what family does. That’s what we are.
- The Queen's Gambit, episode 7 (2020)
“Alma was not pathetic; she was stuck. There’s a difference”
After losing her mother, her adoptive father went back on his promise to gift her the house. In one of their meetings, he calls his dead wife pathetic. Beth rises to her defence. She had lived with Alma and saw that she was struggling to find her way. The lesson from this is that you are not worse off than anyone else just because you struggle to find your way in life.
- Samuel Aigbotsua, "Quotes and Lessons from Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’"
In this jersey, I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back.
- Sidney Crosby
屮注：jersey=隊衣
We may be opponents, but we’re not enemies.
- Joe Biden (6 Nov 2020)
今天從事寫作的男女青年已經忘記了人類內心的衝突。而這本身就能寫好作品。因為這是唯一值得寫、值得嘔心瀝血地去寫的題材。
- William Cuthbert Faulkner, 1950諾貝爾文學獎演說
God was telling the Israelites, rather than making it their goal to leave, destroy, exploit, or even overly acclimatize to Babylon, they were to seek the good of the city. Seeking it the prosperity of Babylon meant working for both its material and spiritual flourishing. They were to show (as Daniel did) what it looked like to serve the God of the universe.
God’s words to them back then are instructive to us today, because we’re also exiles (1 Peter 1:1, 17; 2:11). To be an exile means living in one country, even though you’re a citizen of another country. You’re not a tourist, because you stay for a long time. Nor are you an immigrant, because don’t assimilate and take up the same habits and priorities of the locals.
If you’re a Christian, this is not your home. We put our hopes in another country, a better country, our heavenly country (Phil. 3:20). And yet, we still work for the good of this place.
- Alex McCoy (Vicar of St Andrew's Church, Hong Kong), 'How Do We Live Here.' 2021.07 (https://www.standrews.org.hk/2021/07/how-do-we-live-here/)
Let curiosity be your compass and courage your sail.
- Frobishers Juices Limited trademark
A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
- an audience of a lecture of Max Weinreich
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
沒有痛苦，就沒有意識的喚醒。
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
最可怕的事情是完全接受自己。
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
潛意識如果沒有進入意識，就會引導你的人生而成為你的命運。
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
藝術作品應當超越個人生活的天地、直面詩人的精神與內心深處，如同人直面人類的精神與內心。
It is, moreover, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own natures.而且，只有在完全的聽天由命和孤獨狀態，我們才能體驗到我們自身天性的積極力量。
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.
有時我會感到，我伸展開來覆蓋大地、延伸進萬物：我感到自己生活在每一棵樹木中、生活在浪花中、生活在往來無定的雲朵和動物中、生活在季節的輪迴中。
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
在某種意義上，生活中的最重大和最重要問題都是無法解決的。我們無法解決它們，只能在成長中超越它們。
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
只有當人能夠察看自己的內心深處時，他的視野才會變得清晰起來。向外看的人是在夢中、向內看的人是清醒的人。
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
人的任務，就是意識到從潛意識中努力向上湧出的內容。
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
每件促使我們注意到他人的事，都能使我們更好地理解自己。
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
兩個靈魂的相遇就像兩種化學物質的接觸：一丁點的反應就會徹底改變它們。
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
在我們視野所及中，人類存在的唯一目的，是在純粹存在的黑暗中燃起一點光亮。
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
我們看待事物的方式、而不是事物本身如何，決定著一切。
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
人類的所有成就都源於創造性幻想。那麼我們沒有權利輕視想像力。
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
沒有情感，就不會有黑暗向光明、冷漠向活力的轉變。
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
創造性力量很容易變成破壞性力量。這只取決於人們的道德人格：是用此力量做好事或做壞事。如果人們缺乏這種道德人格，則沒有一種說教能夠提供它或取而代之。
Without freedom there can be no morality.
沒有自由就不會有道德。
Meaning has an inherent curative power. Meaning affects everything. 意義具有內在的治療能力。意義影響到一切事物。
The individual cannot give his life point and meaning unless he puts his ego at the service of spiritual authority superordinate to man.
個體只有使自我向高於人的心靈權威臣服，才能賦予自己的生命以特質和意義。
The world hangs on a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man.
世界懸於一線，那根線就是人的心靈。
The unconscious is a piece of Nature our mind cannot comprehend.
潛意識是大自然的一部分，我們的心理無法領悟它。
"Physical" is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way.
“物質”不是唯一的事實標準：還存在心理事實，而且無法以任何的物質方式來解釋、證明、或辯駁它。
It is quite possible that we look at the world from the wrong side and that we might find the right answer by changing our point of view and looking at it from the other side, i.e., not from outside, but from inside.
我們完全可能是在從錯誤的側面考察世界，要找到有關世界的正確答案，也許需要改變視點、從世界的另一面考察它，即從心理內部而非心理外部考察。
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.... Where is the criterion by which you could say that such a life is not legitimate, that such an experience is not valid?
無論這個世界如何看待宗教體驗，擁有宗教體驗的人持有一筆巨大的財富：它已成為他的生活、意義、以及美的來源，並給予世界和人類一份新的壯 麗。 ...你是根據什麼標準，來判定這種人生不合理、這種體驗沒有根據？
- Carl Gustav Jung
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
總不能等到人生不再艱難才決定活得快樂
- Nightbirde (Jane Marczewski) at America's Got Talent 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZJvBfoHDk0)
Elijah wanted a spectacular sense of God’s presence. He expected it in a powerful wind, then an earthquake, then a fire. But God didn’t speak in these. Instead, he spoke in a gentle whisper. That’s how God works. He doesn’t normally speak through the spectacular. He speaks to us in his word. It’s in reading God’s word consistently and faithfully that we’re reminded who God is and what he’s done. It’s through receiving this reminder that our hearts are comforted and our fears abated.
- Alex McCoy, 'When you’re despondent' (Feb 24, 2022), https://www.standrews.org.hk/when-youre-despondent/
love remembers this: people are far more than the sum of their sometimes-mistaken positions. The image they bear doesn’t ride on the views they hold.
We treat others with grace because of Him who has treated us with grace.
- Alex McCoy, 'Gracious engagement' (Jun 30, 2022), https://www.standrews.org.hk/gracious-engagement/
In a secular world, politics are often elevated to the level of a god. That’s why political causes are fought over so vociferously. That’s why opponents aren’t merely wrong; they are bad. However, Christians aren’t defined by our politics. Our identity in Christ defines us. He has brought down the barriers that used to divide us. That means it’s ok to disagree with Christians on politics because Christ has united us. It’s in him we trust and him who we seek to honour above all else.
So pray for our governments, but don’t trust in them. They’re human and very fallible. They need our prayer.
- Alex McCoy, 'Trusting in government?' (Jul 28, 2022), https://www.standrews.org.hk/trusting-in-government/
When we begin to desire or question someone else’s success, it often leads to thoughts like, “I want what they have.” or “Why did they get that?” This reveals a deeper heart issue: discontentment with what God has given us. When we compare, we tell God his gifts and plans for our lives aren’t enough.
- Leanne McCaughtry, 'The Curse of Comparison' (Oct 10, 2024), https://www.standrews.org.hk/the-curse-of-comparison/
God meets us exactly where we are, not where we pretend to be.
- Leanne McCaughtry, 'When Christmas Hurts' (Dec 12, 2024), https://www.standrews.org.hk/when-christmas-hurts/
we exercise faith in different ways. For instance, you can have intellectual assent (or faith) that God exists. But that’s different to having trust and confidence (or faith) in the God whose existence you’ve assented to.
Faith in God is essential because we’re unable to please God on our own. Even our best intentions and best efforts fall short of God’s perfect standard. Faith in God means abandoning your own efforts to try to earn God’s favour and instead trusting in God for your salvation. Faith is giving up on your delusions of control and instead resting on God’s sovereign power and goodness.
Faith in God needs to be constantly exercised. It effects everything in our lives: our decisions and priorities, our habits and character, how we handle stress and hardship. Faith, when correctly understood, always leads us to lean on God’s grace. It leads us to trusting and holding onto Jesus, the Saviour who ultimately fulfilled all of God’s promises to Abraham.
- Alex McCoy, 'Abraham: the man of faith' (Sep 24, 2025), https://www.standrews.org.hk/abraham-the-man-of-faith/
We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
我們［自空間深處］拍到了照片，來看，你會看見一個小點。就在這裏。這就是家。這就是我們。在這個小點上，每一個你愛的人，每一個你認識的人，每一個你聽說過的人，每一個人，無論是誰，都在此度過一生。我們所有的快樂和掙扎，數以千萬自傲的宗教信仰、思想體系觀念意識，以及經濟學原理教義，每一個獵人或征服者，每一位勇士或懦夫，每一個文明的締造者或摧毀者，每一位君王或農夫，每一對陷入愛河的年輕伴侶，每一位為人父母者，所有充滿希望的小孩、發明家或探險者，每一位靈魂導師，每一個腐敗的政客，每一個所謂的『超級巨星』，每一個所謂的『至高領袖』，每一位我們人類史上的聖人或罪人……我們的一切一切，全部都存在於這樣一粒懸浮在一束陽光中的塵埃上。
地球，只是浩瀚宇宙競技場上一個小小的舞台。想想那些帝王將相揚起的腥風血雨，只為在榮耀和勝利中，短暫享受主宰著一個小點上一小部分的滋味。想想有些永無止境的殘暴，竟然就發生在這個小點上某個角落裏的一群人、與幾乎分不出任何區別的同樣這一個小點上的另一個角落的另一群人之間。他們之間的誤解能有多頻繁，他們之間想滅掉對方的願望能有多迫切，他們之間互相的仇恨能有多熾烈。
我們的裝腔作勢與妄自尊大，我們以為自己在宇宙中享有特權的幻想，都被這顆發着微弱藍光的小點所挑戰。我們的這顆星球，是一粒孤孤單單的微塵，被包裹在宇宙浩瀚的黑暗中。在我們有限的認知里，在這一片浩瀚之中，沒有任何跡象表明救助會從別處而來幫助我們救贖自己。
目前為止，地球是我們唯一所知有生命居住的世界。沒有其他地方——至少是在不遠的未來裏，可供我們這一物種移民。我們能夠造訪，但尚不能常駐。不管你喜歡還是不喜歡，目前為止只有地球是我們的立足之地。
有人說，天文學是一門令人謙卑的、同時也是塑造性情的學問。也許沒有什麼能比從遙遠太空拍攝到的我們微小世界的這張照片，更能展示人類的自負有多愚蠢。對我而言，這也是在提醒我們的責任所在：更和善的對待彼此，並維護和珍惜這顆暗藍色的小點——這個我們目前所知唯一的家園。
- Carl Sagan, 'Reflections on a Mote of Dust' (1934-1996)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard 祁克果
How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?
Léon: You need some time to grow up a little.
Mathilda: I finished growing up, Léon. I just get older.
Léon: For me it's the opposite. I'm old enough. I need time to grow up.
It's when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life.
- Léon (1994)
Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Same-sex relationships were quite the norm throughout the Greek world. The Greeks did not have a word for homosexuality or to be gay. It just wasn't in their vocabulary whatsoever. There was just being sеxual.
- Alexander: The Making of a God, season 1 episode 1, 'The Boy King' (2024)
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun their destiny or avoid a path they were always destined to follow.
- Alexander: The Making of a God, season 1 episode 2, 'Death or Victory' (2024)
Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: like everybody who conquers Egypt, eventually, the conqueror becomes conquered by Egyptian culture.
- Alexander: The Making of a God, season 1 episode 4, 'The Golden Empire' (2024)
the terms we use to understand and discuss sexuality do not work well when we try to understand and discuss sex in the ancient world. For example, the modern term “homosexuality” and its relatives seem most often to refer to states of being: one is either “homosexual,” “heterosexual,” or perhaps “bisexual.” These terms seem anachronistic if used to describe ancient Macedonians and Greeks. For example, an Athenian man during the Classical period might have a publicly known and accepted sexual relationship with a younger man, but also an ongoing sexual relationship, marriage, and family life with his wife. “Bisexual” does not describe this state of affairs well, because this mature Athenian man would avoid an acknowledged sexual relationship with another man of his own age and free status, but he might not think twice about demanding sex from a household slave of either sex.
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It is a modern preoccupation with sexual identity that drives scholars and others to discuss whether Alexander was, in modern terms, heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Neither Alexander nor anyone he encountered in his life would have thought to ask that question in those terms.
- Thomas R. Martin and Christopher W. Blackwell, Alexander the Great: The Story of an Ancient Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 98-99.
The historical consensus that fluid sexuality was part of ancient Greek life and labels current today did not exist at the time.
Paul Cartledge, a historian and academic specialized in ancient Greece who was not involved in the show, said via email that definitions such as “bisexual” and “homosexual” are a modern phenomenon. It would be more accurate to define Alexander by standards of the time, where a “normal” Greek man had sexual encounters with both men and women.
Jeanne Reames is a historian and Director of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program at the University of Nebraska Omaha who has written extensively about Alexander the Great and was a consultant on the Netflix show. She told Reuters that power was a more defining feature than gender in ancient Greek sexual relationships. In her words, “It’s not who you do, it’s what you do.”
“One person was always the social superior. For the Greeks, this was understood to be a free, adult citizen male. As long as he was the ‘superior’ and had the ‘active’ (penetrating) role, he could have any partners he wanted, of either sex,” she said.
Professor of Humanities at Pepperdine University Philip Freeman, who was not involved with the series but has written a biography of the ruler, said in an email, “In the ancient Greek world - and especially in Macedonia - such same-sex relationships were so normal they wouldn't have seemed odd to anyone.”
- Reuters Fact Check, "Fact Check: ‘Gay’ storyline in Alexander the Great Netflix series based on historical context" (2024.02.17) https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/gay-storyline-alexander-great-netflix-series-based-historical-context-2024-02-16/
The unspoken word never does harm.
The journey is the thing. (source unknown)
The reward is the journey itself; our power is in our ability to endure. That's all there is to it.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
A man who has been through bitter experiences and traveled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
The only way to free yourself from the chains of fate is to embrace it.
Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
It is the mind that makes a good voyage.
Sometimes it's better to die in the field with honor than live as a slave.
the fates of death await us, thousands poised to strike, and not a man alive can flee them or escape--so in we go for attack! Give our enemy glory or win it for ourselves!
- Homer
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
- Sophocles
For there is nothing more constant in the universe than change.
- Heraclitus
In 1933 the German establishment thought it could use Hitler to restore a modicum of order to the confused and confusing Weimar Republic. In fact, Hitler did strengthen the German establishment, but not exactly in the way the bankers and businessmen had wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is clear who was using whom. Nevertheless, the Western World did not complain in 1933 because Hitler, though a fascist and a totalitarian, was seen, like countless American puppet dictators today, as someone who leaves the established order in place.
Not so the Greens. If a group of young, anti-establishment pacifists with unusual ideas and uncomfortable answers to hard questions terrifies us more today than Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels did back in 1933, our terror says more about us than it does about the Greens or the Germans. It indicates that we have failed to comprehend the meaning of Nazism and blind obedience to authority in their full horror, and that we, unlike the Greens, have yet ourselves to learn the democratic lesson that we have taught the Germans so well.
- Barack Obama, "Breaking the War Mentality", March 10, 1983. http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fpackages%2Fimages%2Fnytint%2Fdocs%2Fobama-s-1983-college-magazine-article%2Foriginal.pdf%3Av307ihDBB4DKt0ihhnuBeIvqs9o&cuid=2175616
MarketWatch: "How should people protect their investments?"
Rogers: The only way to protect yourself is to invest in what you know about. Everyone knows a lot about something, and that’s where you should focus. If I said you could only have 25 investments in your entire life, you would be very careful, and be a good investor. Many people might say that is boring. If you want to be a good investor, be boring. Stay with what you know.
Be aware of what has happened in the past, because it will happen again.
- Jim Rogers (Michael Sincere, "Opinion: This hedge-fund icon has been investing for 60 years. Here’s his take on stocks now." (2024.07.17) https://www.marketwatch.com/story/global-stock-investor-jim-rogers-im-waiting-for-something-to-go-wrong-8e3e44a4)
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me—
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well—
Long, long shall I rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.
In secret we met—
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?—
With silence and tears.
- George Gordon Byron (拜倫), "When We Two Parted"
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED Talk
體育並不塑造人格，而是顯露人格。
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
- Heywood Broun
Sometimes your best is just not good enough.
改：It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
- Winston S. Churchill
If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got.
- Marylebone Cricket Club University teams (MCCU), Oxford University Sports Ground. Oct 2019
屮注：於瞄準運動尤有雙關義。
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
Strength to Love, 1963.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Strength to Love, 1963.
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
March for Integrated Schools, April 18, 1959.
"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."
Christmas sermon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
Stride Toward Freedom, 1958
- Martin Luther King
You can only build your pyramid of life as high as the base is wide.
Just because you are good at something, doesn't mean it's not a gift.
Always meet someone new at every opportunity.
Life is a constant trade-off between adventure and security.
Only boring people find people boring.
Travel is life's best teacher.
Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.
There's no limit to what you can achieve if you don't care who gets credit.
Be loyal without compromising your integrity.
Be faithful in the mundane.
The line separating good and evil runs through every human heart.
Chance favours the prepared mind.
Finish every day with ice cream (David played a key role in establishing G&D’s in Oxford!).
- David Young. Founder of Oxford Analytica and active supporter of Developing a Christian Mind
所有的凡人都需要神明助佑。
- 荷馬（著），王煥生（譯）：荷馬史詩．奧德賽（北京：人民文學出版社，1997年），頁36。（卷三第48行）
愚蠢啊，殊不知女神不會聽取祈禱，
永生的神明們不會很快改變意願。
- 頁40（卷三第146-47行）
奧林波斯的宙斯親自把幸福分配給
凡間的每個人，好人和壞人，按他的心願。
不管他賜給了你甚麼，你都得甘心忍受。
- 頁110（卷六第188-90行）
無論甚麼都不及可憎的腹中肌餓
更令人難忍
- 頁123（卷七第216-17行）
朋友，願宙斯和其他不死的眾神明賜你
一切如願，因為你如此熱情地招待我。
- 頁256（卷十四第53-54行）
神明或賜予甚麼或奪走，
全憑他意願，因為神明無所不能。
- 頁269（卷十四第444-45行）
一個人任何時候都不可超越限度，
要默默地接受神明賜予的一切禮物。
- 頁339（卷十八第141-42行）
這時他來到門檻邊站定，試安弓弦。
他三次奮力，顫悠悠地引拉弦繩，
三次都氣力不濟，盡管他心中希望
安好弓弦，一箭穿過所有的鐵斧。
他第四次盡力拉引，眼看快安上，
奧德修斯向他示意，阻止他再拉引。
- 頁392（卷二十一第124-29行）
這時歐律馬科斯正把彎弓翻轉，
在爐火上反覆烘烤，可是他仍未能
安上弓弦，高貴的心裏充滿失望，
悲傷地開言，對眾人歎息一聲這樣說：
「天哪，我為自己，也為眾人痛惜。
我並不因這場求婚不順而傷心憂愁，
因為還有許多其他的阿開奧斯女子，
或是在環海的伊塔卡，或是在其他城市，
我愁的是如果我們的氣力如此不及
神樣的奧德修斯，連他的弓我們都難以
安好弦繩，這恥辱也會遺留給後人。」
- 頁396-97（卷二十一第245-55行）
聰慧的特勒馬科斯這樣開言回答說：
「親愛的母親，沒有哪個阿開奧斯人
比我更有權決定把這弓給誰或拒絕，
［……］
現在你還是回房把自己的事情操持，
看守機杼和紡綞，吩咐那些女僕們
認真把活幹，這弓箭是所有男人們的事情，
尤其是我，因為這個家的權力屬於我。」
佩涅洛佩不勝驚異，返回房間，
把兒子深為明智的話語聽進心裏。
- 頁400（卷二十一第343-55行）
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