Showing posts with label 名言警句. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 名言警句. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Excellence - 优秀
What is truly valuable is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
If You Hate a Person
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. --Hermann Hesse
Exercise - 锻炼
Don't be concerned if running or exercise will add years to your life, be concerned with adding life to your years. The strenuous life tastes better. --Dr. George Sheehan
John A. Kelley (old John) won Boston 1935 and 1945. He first run Boston in 1928 at the age of 20 and the last in 1992 at the age of 84 (5:58:00). Kelley died in 2004 at the age of 97.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. --Theodore Roosevelt
John A. Kelley (old John) won Boston 1935 and 1945. He first run Boston in 1928 at the age of 20 and the last in 1992 at the age of 84 (5:58:00). Kelley died in 2004 at the age of 97.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. --Theodore Roosevelt
Trouble & Anxiety
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
The natural role of 20th century man is anxiety. --Norman Mailer
How much have cost us the evils that never happened! --Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. --William Shakespeare
The natural role of 20th century man is anxiety. --Norman Mailer
How much have cost us the evils that never happened! --Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. --William Shakespeare
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Reason - 理念
Every man's own reason must be his own oracle.
Man is the beast endowed with reason. Reason is the perception of what is, which always means also what can and ought to be.
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. --Thomas Jefferson
Man is the beast endowed with reason. Reason is the perception of what is, which always means also what can and ought to be.
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. --Thomas Jefferson
Truth - 真理
We need the truth and love it and seek it. And yet it is just as easy to demonstrate that we are also simultaneously afraid to know the truth.
Optimism - 乐观主义
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. --Bill Vaughan
Soul - 灵魂
The soul grows according to it own law. --Heracleitos
The soul, too, has virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. --George Santayana
The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.
"The Conference of the Birds" by Fariduddin Attar is no accident a story about birds, for the bird is an ancient symbol of the human soul, which can be either caged or set free.
The soul, too, has virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. --George Santayana
The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.
"The Conference of the Birds" by Fariduddin Attar is no accident a story about birds, for the bird is an ancient symbol of the human soul, which can be either caged or set free.
Wisdom - 智慧
True wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. --Joseph Campbell
Love - 爱
In true love it is the soul that embraces the body. --De Maupassant
Eros is a biological urge.
Agape is spiritual love--love thy neighbor as thyself kind of love.
The love of beauty and our uneasiness with it. Our love of good man and our irritation with him. Our search for excellence and our tendency to destroy it.
Eros is a biological urge.
Agape is spiritual love--love thy neighbor as thyself kind of love.
The love of beauty and our uneasiness with it. Our love of good man and our irritation with him. Our search for excellence and our tendency to destroy it.
Vanity - 虚荣
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive... A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth... A man has no pre-eminence over a beast... All go unto one place, all turn to dust again... All is vanity. --Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes studies history and concludes that this, too, is vanity, for history in the large repeats itself and, like the family Bible, is a record of births and deaths.
Ecclesiastes studies history and concludes that this, too, is vanity, for history in the large repeats itself and, like the family Bible, is a record of births and deaths.
Power - 力量/能力/权利
There are three powers in the world: sagacity, strength, and luck.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. --David Brin
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.--Thomas Jefferson
I have seen enough of political honors to know that they are but splendid torments. The little spice of ambition which I had in my younger days has long since evaporated, and I set still less store by a posthumous than present time. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.--Thomas Jefferson.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall shake off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. --Thomas Jefferson
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. --David Brin
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.--Thomas Jefferson
I have seen enough of political honors to know that they are but splendid torments. The little spice of ambition which I had in my younger days has long since evaporated, and I set still less store by a posthumous than present time. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.--Thomas Jefferson.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall shake off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. --Thomas Jefferson
Material Possession - 物欲
There must be more in life than having it all. --Maurice Sendak
Human nature--satisfaction from any purchase is always short-lived, if experienced at all. So we yearn for more. Enough is never enough.
In our quest to have it all, we end up experiencing less peace, happiness, and satisfaction than we would if we learned how to be satisfied with much less.
We are not going to be the richest people in the cemetery. We are, however, very rich. We have time--I call it the most expensive commodity of them all.
Human nature--satisfaction from any purchase is always short-lived, if experienced at all. So we yearn for more. Enough is never enough.
In our quest to have it all, we end up experiencing less peace, happiness, and satisfaction than we would if we learned how to be satisfied with much less.
We are not going to be the richest people in the cemetery. We are, however, very rich. We have time--I call it the most expensive commodity of them all.
Security - 安全感
The word "security" comes from the Latin word securus, which means "without care." In this regard, true security is an internal state of being, not determined by how much money an individual is able to acquire.
Security based on external possessions is, in fact, one of life's greatest illusions. Paradoxically, people pursuing security are among the most insecure, and people who least care about security are the most secure.
Security is a kind of death.
Security is the manifestation of depth.
Security based on external possessions is, in fact, one of life's greatest illusions. Paradoxically, people pursuing security are among the most insecure, and people who least care about security are the most secure.
Security is a kind of death.
Security is the manifestation of depth.
Leisure - 闲暇
Leisure is essential to wisdom.
Now the object of all, so I believe, is the same--to live more at leisure and at ease. But we do not always intelligently seek the pathway to this end. --Montaigne
Now the object of all, so I believe, is the same--to live more at leisure and at ease. But we do not always intelligently seek the pathway to this end. --Montaigne
Creativity - 创造
Of three precious resources in life--time, money, and creativity, the only unlimited one is your creativity. Make it your no.1 resource, and time and money won't be as scarce.
To invent or create you must have the "arrogance of creativeness" which so many investigators have noticed. But, of course, if you have only the arrogance without the humility, then you're in fact paranoid.
To invent or create you must have the "arrogance of creativeness" which so many investigators have noticed. But, of course, if you have only the arrogance without the humility, then you're in fact paranoid.
Religion - 宗教
As it was, his [Mill's father] aversion to religion in the sense usually attached to the term. He regarded it with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil. --John Stuart Mill
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