Category: 无边记

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. （Unknown）

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. （Joseph Addison）

快乐的秘诀之一是健忘。（丽塔·梅·布朗）

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.（Helen Keller）

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.（E. B. White）

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

Always Do What You Are Afraid To Do. （Ralph Waldo Emerson）

Tough times never last, but tough people do.（Dr. Robert Schuller）

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.（E. B. White）

There is nothing permanent except change.（Heraclitus）

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.（Niccolo Machiavelli）

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.（William Penn）

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.（Gary Allan）

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.（Aristotle）

He who angers you conquers you.（Elizabeth Kenny）

The lack of money is the root of all evil.（Mark Twain）

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.（St. Jerome）

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.（Benjamin Franklin）

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.（Rabindranath Tagore）

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.（Ovid）

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.（Prince Philip）

Plain living, high thinking.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

胜利有一千个爹，而失败是个孤儿。（约翰·肯尼迪）

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

If you're going through hell,

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

If your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Don't be so humble; you're not that great.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? (Charles de Gaulle)

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

要知道，春天的道路依然充满泥泞。

人这辈子，不经历点特殊的事，是没办法认清自己的。

许多人所谓的成熟，不过是被习俗磨去了棱角，变得世故而实际了。那不是成熟，而是精神的早衰和个性的消亡。真正的成熟，应当是独特个性的形成，真实自我的发现，精神上的结果和丰收。（周国平 《灵魂只能独行》 ​​​）

人一辈子，只能靠长期去做某件事情来成就自己，而不是靠某一个人来成就自己。关于这点，你要么及早领悟，要么等待时光给你教训，逼你领悟。

普通人的每一步，似乎都微小、平凡、脚踏实地、不动声色，但远距离回望我们这个国家走过的脚印，你会惊叹它洒脱、传奇、伟大、日新月异。

少年就是少年，他们看春风不喜，看夏蝉不烦，看秋风不悲，看冬雪不叹，看满身富贵懒察觉，看不公不允敢面对，只因他们是少年。(陀思妥耶夫斯基 《少年》​​​)

成长是一笔交易，我们都是用朴素的童真与未经人事的洁白交换长大的勇气。

那些看似不起波澜的日复一日，会突然在某一天让人看到坚持的意义。

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

When you finally learn your self-worth, you stop giving others discounts.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. (Cayla Mills)

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Justice has long arms. 

Woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Success breeds confidence. 

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 

Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths. (unknown)

Spare the rod and spoil the  child. (Anonymous)

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude. 

Love the life you live. Live the life you love. (Bob Marley)

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. 

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. 

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. (Abraham Lincoln)

Who, being loved, is poor?

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years. (Mark Twain)

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Action is the real measure of intelligence. （Napoleon Hill）

A goal is a dream with a deadline. (Napoleon Hill)

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. 

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. 

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. （Elizabeth Kenny）

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. (Anonymous)

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. (Rumi)

Work hard in Silence, let success make the noise.

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.