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第1章 人生如诗 1 Chapter One Human Life Like a Poem I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. No one can say that a life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season. And if we take this
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第 1 章 人生如诗
1
Chapter One Human Life Like a Poem
I think that, from a biological standpoint,
human life almost reads like a poem.
It has its own rhythm and beat,
its internal cycles of growth and decay.
No one can say that a life with childhood,
manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;
the day has its morning, noon and sunset,
and the year has its seasons, and it is good
that it is so. There is no good or bad in life,
except what is good according to its own season.
And if we take this biological view of life
and try to live according to the seasons,
no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist
can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.
——Lin Yutang
2
We Are on a Journey
By Henry Van Dyke
Wherever you are, and whoever you may be,
there is one thing in which you and I are
just alike,at this moment, and in all the moments
of our existence.We are not at rest;
we are on a journey. Our life is not a mere fact;
it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,
ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
We are gaining something, or losing something, every day.
Even when our position and our character seem to
remain precisely the same, they are changing.
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For the mere advance of time is a change.
It is not the same thing to have a bare field
in January and in July. The season makes the difference.
The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish
in the man.Everything that we do is a step
in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something
is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward.
The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is
just as real as the action of the positive pole.
To decline is to accept — the other alternative.
Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday?
Yes, — you must be a little nearer to some port or other;
for since your ship was first launched upon
the sea of life you have never been still
for a single moment; the sea is too deep,
you could not find an anchorage if you would;
there can be no pause until you come into port.
The True Nobility
By Ernest Hemingway
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
But all sunshine without shade,
all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.
Take the lot of the happiest — it is a tangled yarn.
Bereavements and blessings, one following another,
make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself
makes life more loving. Men come closest to
their true selves in the sober moments of life,
under the shadows of sorry and loss.
In the affairs of life or of business,
it is not intellect that tells so much as character,
not brains so much as heart, not genius so much
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as self-control, patience, and discipline,
regulated by judgment.I have always believed that
the man who has begun to live more seriously
within begins to live more simply without.
In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish
I could show to the world how few
the real wants of humanity are.To regret
one’s errors to the point of not repeating them
is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being
superior to some other man. The true nobility is
in being superior to your previous self.
3
The World as I See It
By Albert Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals!
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;
for what purpose he knows not, though he
sometimes thinks he senses it. But without
deeper reflection one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people —
first of all for those upon whose smiles
and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent,
and then for the many, unknown to us,
to whose destinies we are bound by
the ties of sympathy. 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. I am strongly drawn
to a frugal life and am often oppressively
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aware that I am engrossing an undue amount
of the labor of my fellow-men. I regard
class distinctions as unjustified and,
in the last resort, based on force. I also
believe that a simple and unassuming life
is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
I do not at all believe in human freedom
in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts
not only under external compulsion but also
in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying,
that “A man can do what he wants, but not want
what he wants,” has been a very real inspiration
to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation
in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’,
and an unfailing well-spring of tolerance.
This realization mercifully mitigates the easily
paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from
taking ourselves and other people all too seriously;
it is conducive to a view of life which,
in particular, gives humor its due.To inquire after
the meaning or object of one’s own existence or
that of all creatures has always seemed to me
absurd from an objective point of view. And yet
everybody has certain ideals which determine
the direction of his endeavors and his judgments.
In this sense I have never looked upon ease
and happiness as ends in themselves —
this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time
have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,
have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without
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the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without
the occupation with the objective world, the eternally
unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors,
life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objects
of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury —
have always seemed to me contemptible.
4
Love Your Life
By Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names.
It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest
when you are richest. The fault-finder will
find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,
glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun
is reflected from the windows of the almshouse
as brightly as from the rich man’s abode;
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,
and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
The town’s poor seem to me often to live
the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply
great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that
they are above being supported by the town;
but it often happens that they are not above
supporting themselves by dishonest means,
which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty
like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends.
Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.
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