语句摘录
平时发现比较好的语句,自己喜欢把它摘下来。下面贴出几条:
一、幸福的定义
Something to do, something to love, something to hope for
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” I worte this sentence in my notebook at the first sight of it in a movie. Most of us will ask ourselves why we are not happy, it seems that no one is happy especially in China. The poor is not happy, the rich is not happy as well as the middle class is not happy. Except for the political factors and the society environment, the essential reason may be we don’t grasp the grand essentials of happiness. From my own experience, I was not happy becasue of poor when I was a countryside boy, I was not happy because I did not get a PHD in USA, I was not happy because I did not publish a journal paper when I needed it, I was not happy because I live in small department, I was not happy because I was far away from my family… Yes, all of the matters will upset me, they will bother me. But now, I don’t think they should be the hurdles for my happiness. I must remember that I have a good job, I have a dream, I should be happy. I have a graceful wife and a cute kid to love, I should be happy. I have a common hope with my wife, I should be happy.
下面这个,我每次看都被感动到了
二、成事在人中的《Invictus》
Invictus --William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me
走出那覆盖我的夜晚
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
黑暗同地狱笼罩世界
I thank whatever gods may be
我感谢名号万般的诸神
For my unconquerable soul
赐我不屈的灵魂
In the fell clutch of circumstance
在不幸的蹂躏下
I have not winced nor cried aloud
我没有畏惧或大声号哭
Under the bludgeonings of chance
在命运的恫吓下
My head is bloody, but unbowed
我伤痕累累却誓不低头
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
在这愤怒与泪水之外
Looms but the horror of the shade
恐怖的阴影在游荡
And yet the menace of the years
但岁月的威胁
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid
发现并应发现我无所畏惧
It matters not how strait the gate
不管门有多狭窄
How charged with punishments the scroll
不管条令上的惩罚如何
I am the master of my fate
我是自己命运的主宰
I am the captain of my soul
我是自己灵魂的舵手
三、Say well is good, but do well is better