——just be yourself
There will never be anyone else like you in the future of the universe. That's why being yourself is more important than anything else.
宇宙中再不会有一个人和你一样。这就是为什么做自己比什么都重要。
That's how life works: two steps forward, followed by one-and-a-half back as those who lost their power try to reverse the process.
生活就是这样：向前迈两步，接着后退一步半，而失去权势的人努力想要逆转这个顺序。
Those who benefit most from the status quo are naturally the least interested in change, and they find allies in the fearful and the authoritarian. Conformity always includes a threat of punishment if you fail to fit in, whether it comes from ridicule, being shunned by others, or direct attack.
从现状得益最多的人自然是最不希望改变的，他们与畏首畏尾者还有权威主义者结成联盟。如果你不能适应随大流，遵从一致往往有遭惩罚的风险，或是受人奚落，或是别人避之不及，甚至是受到直接攻击。
There’s a more fundamental power behind the urgency with which authoritarian conservatives seek to suppress inpiduality. That power is lack of trust. Wise leaders and outstanding thinkers are alike in two things: they’re usually non-conformists —and they display a deep trust in the basic goodness, intelligence, and capacity for development of their fellow human beings.
权威主义派的保守者急不可耐要压抑个性有其更为根本的`原因，那就是缺乏信任。明智的领导和杰出的思想家有两点是相似的：他们不随大流，他们对他人的本善、才智和能力发展表现出高度信任。
In stark contrast, the most determined proponents of conformity have always been dictatorships. Under a dictatorship, any kind of variation from prescribed ways of thinking or acting is punished. Conservative thinkers often suggest too much freedom will lead to anarchy and the collapse of all standards.
与之对照鲜明的是，顺从最为顽固的要素在于独裁专制。在独裁控制下，凡有悖既定思维和有违既定行为者都会受到惩处。保守派思想常告诫，过度自由会引发混沌无序、会破坏标准。
Being who and what you are is the most natural thing there is. There may be a cost. Some people, even some friends, will disapprove of you as you truly are and will let you know it. There will be setbacks along the way. Yet the price for being yourself can never be as great as the price you will pay for stepping aside from your basic nature: a price paid in frustration, dissatisfaction, and the hopeless realization of all that you might have been, but now can never attain.
做自己是最自然的事情。也许会有代价，一些人，有些甚至是朋友，会不认可真实的你，并且告诉你，一路都会有挫折。但做自己的代价永远不会像违背你的本心代价那么大，背离自我的代价是挫败感、不满不悦、曾经可以企及的目标和愿望，如今却无望实现。
Take up the challenge. Conformity has very little to recommend it. Trust yourself and trust others. Mediocrity and inner frustration are the true price of conforming. Only those with the courage openly to live their dreams can ever hope to find lasting satisfaction with their lives.
接受挑战吧。循规蹈矩没什么可以褒奖的。相信自己，相信他人。平庸无才和内心挫折才是默守陈规真正的代价。只有敢于实现梦想、心怀勇气的人才能在生命中获得源源不断的满足感。
1、只有千锤百炼，才能成为好钢。
2、爱情就是以微笑开始，以吻生长，以泪结束。
3、生气就是拿别人做错的事来惩罚自己。
4、倾听就是对他人的一种恭敬，一种尊重，一分理解，一分虔诚，就是对友人最宝贵的馈赠。
5、骄傲的人往往高估了他所拥有的一切。
6、有勇气并不表示恐惧不存在，而就是敢面对恐惧、克服恐惧。
7、一个人如果明白他想要什麽并有坚强的信念，那麽整个世界都会为他让步。
8、外在压力增加时，就应增强内在的动力。
9、真正的爱情就是一种精神的爱，它不怕时间的考验，两个追求思想及心灵的沟通，即使在逆境中，仍能令人积极向上，并由心底感受到幸福。
10、艰苦岁月总难长久，坚毅的人总会出头。
11、一千个人就有一千种生存方式和生活道路，要想改变一些事情，首先得把自己给找回来。
12、人总就是珍惜未得到的，而遗忘了所拥有的。
13、伟人之所以伟大，就是因为他与别人共处逆境时，别人失去了信心，他却下决心实现自己的目标。
14、每个人都有遇到顺境和逆境，不要为暂时的荣耀沾沾自喜，也不要为一时的挫折而悲观失望，人生可以就是喜剧，也可以就是悲剧，导演就就是你自己。
15、有理想在的地方，地狱就就是天堂。有希望在的地方，痛苦也成欢乐。
16、世上并没有用来鼓励工作努力的赏赐，所有的赏赐都只就是被用来奖励工作成果的。
17、每天告诉自己一次：我真的很不错。
18、要纠正别人之前，先反省自己有没有犯错。
19、世上最重要的事，不在于我们在何处，而在于我们朝着什么方向走。
20、人世间有些事情就是不可避免的，有些事情就是无力改变的，有些事情就是无法预测的，能补救的则尽力补救，无法改变的就坦然接受，调整好自己的心态去做应该做的事情。
21、要铭记在心：每天都就是一年中最美好的日子。
22、快乐和不快乐没有绝对的概念，真正的快乐只就是一种心理感受，它与财富，权利就是无关的！
23、爱的力量大到可以使人忘记一切，却又小到连一粒嫉妒的沙石也不能容纳。
24、人之所以有一张嘴，而有两只耳朵，原因就是听的要比说的多一倍。
25、拥有丰富内容的人，就能够享受到单独的美好。
26、勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。
27、没有敌人能比自己的贪婪，憎恨，妒忌，沮丧，恐惧等负面情绪更能伤害自己的。
28、伟大的事业不就是靠力气、速度和身体的敏捷完成的，而就是靠性格、意志和知识的力量完成的。
29、用最少的悔恨面对过去。用最少的浪费面对现在。用最多的梦面对未来。
30、幸福的味道不就是甜蜜而就是平淡，不就是浓烈的芬芳而就是淡淡的幽香，在这个世界上，每个人有自己的位置，每一个人也有自己的追求，选择适合自己的生活，便就是真正的幸福。
31、人生就像一杯茶，不会苦一辈子，但总会苦一阵子。
32、记住该记住的，忘记该忘记的。改变能改变的，接受不能改变的。
33、每个人都有潜在的.能量，只就是很容易：被习惯所掩盖，被时间所迷离，被惰性所消磨。
34、得意时应善待他人，因为你失意时会需要他们。
35、少一点预设的期待，那份对人的关怀会更自在。
36、在人生的路上，我们不需要在乎太多，用心去感受生活，忽略那些沉重的包袱，这样才会活的精彩。
37、怨言就是上天得到人类最大的供物，也就是人类祷告中最真诚的部分。
38、如果我们都去做自己能力做得到的事，我们真会叫自己大吃一惊。
39、众口难调，你永远无法满足所有人的胃口，高明的人会引导大家跟着自己的感觉走，而不就是让自己跟着别人走。
40、如果我们想要更多的玫瑰花，就必须种植更多的玫瑰树。
41、爱一个人而那个人不爱你就是很让人难受的，但更痛苦的就是，爱一个人，却永远都没勇气告诉他。
42、真正的爱，应该超越生命的长度、心灵的宽度、灵魂的深度。
43、能冲刷一切的除了眼泪，就就是时间，以时间来推移感情，时间越长，冲突越淡，仿佛不断稀释的茶。
44、人若软弱就就是自己最大的敌人；人若勇敢就就是自己最好的朋友。
45、河流之所以能够到达目的地，就是因为它懂得怎样避开障碍。
46、有事者，事竟成；破釜沉舟，百二秦关终归楚；苦心人，天不负；卧薪尝胆，三千越甲可吞吴。
47、如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
48、最好的，不一定就是最合适的；最合适的，才就是真正最好的。
49、知识给人重量，成就给人光彩，大多数人只就是看到了光彩，而不去称量重量。
50、当别人激怒你，最快平息你的怒火方法，就就是想象自己变成对方，以他的立场看法去重新检视事情，你会有更高层的领悟。
51、真正的朋友，应该就是在共同的思想基础和奋斗目标上，一起追求，一起进步，如果没有内在精神的默契，只有表面上的亲热，这样的朋友就是无法真正沟通和理解的。
52、请你用慈悲心和温和的态度，把你的不满与委屈说出来，别人就容易接受。
53、行动不一定带来快乐，而无行动则决无快乐。
54、等待就是一种经历，学会慢慢体会人生才能懂得幸福，切莫在追逐梦想的旅途中走的太快，走的太急，忘了在途中欣赏美丽的风景，体味人生的真谛。
55、盛年不重来，一日难再晨，及时宜自勉，岁月不待人。
56、对于最有能力的领航人风浪总就是格外的汹涌。
57、生命太过短暂，今天放弃了明天不一定能得到。
58、修行的人要有耐性，甘于淡薄，美的最高境界就就是安详。
59、上帝助自助者。
60、失去金钱的人损失甚少，失去健康的人损失极多，失去勇气的人损失一切。
61、“气”便就是别人吐出，而你却接到口里的那种东西，生气便就是用别人的过错来惩罚自己的一种蠢行。
62、命运有时候会同人开玩笑，你又何必太认真呢？大家都就是赤条条来，赤条条去，把得失看成一种人生体验吧。
63、世界总就是一样的，只就是我们的心情和遭遇不一样而已。
64、只要无惧于尝试，没有人会彻底失败。
65、你的脸就是为了呈现上帝赐给人类最贵重的礼物——微笑，一定要成为你工作最大的资产。
66、把你的脸迎向阳光，那就不会有阴影。
67、最重要的就就是不要去看远方模糊的，而要做手边清楚的事。
68、人的价值，在遭受诱惑的一瞬间被决定。
69、做的技艺来自做的过程。
70、重视自己生命的人，就会重视时间，因为时间不只等于金钱，更等于生命。
1. When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
我最老的时候是14岁，从14岁起，我开始“逆生长”。
2. Good luck needs no explanation.
好运不需解释。
3. Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.
要勇敢和明智。遵从内心，不随波逐流。做真实的自己。
4. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
6岁那年我就不相信真的有圣诞老人了，那天，妈妈带我到一家百货商店去看圣诞老人，可他让我给他签名。
5. I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about 8 years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal!
我想当联邦调查局探员。我还想成为馅饼销售员。这个想法是如此的强烈，以至于当工作室得到小吃车道具并将它装满馅饼时，我推着它绕着剧组晃并把馅饼卖给工作人员。那时我八岁左右，不用替他们付钱。这是笔很大的交易!
6. I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat [in Ghana].
作为一个女人和一名外交官，我毫无疑问的受到重视。(在加纳)
7. My only problems have been with Americans who, in the beginning, refused to believe I had grown up since my movies.[Stated after her 1974 appointment as U.S. ambassador to Ghana.]
我仅对那些一开始就拒绝相信我已经从我的电影中的小女孩长大成人这个现实的美国人存有疑问。
8. The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
联合国扮演着世界良知的角色，而他们的工作85%以上在社会、经济、教育和文化领域。
9. Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
所有明星都能被人类疯狂的崇拜吞噬，星点相继。
10. We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
没有联合国就得创造联合国，并不是我才这么想。
11. I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
长大后除了《那个哈根女孩》，我没有为我的任何一部分电影感到非常骄傲，虽然没人记得，但正是它给了我演戏的机会。
经典的英语句子及翻译阅读
1. He cultivated productive habits
他养成了有效的习惯
Famously known for his 13 virtues, in which he organized a 13-week plan focusing on one of his thirteen virtues of temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility, Benjamin Franklin not only implemented important moral goals, but also found ways to hold himself accountable by marking his own progress. In addition, he formed a time table schedule that had his day planned from the time he rose at 5am until he went to bed at 10pm.
在著名的“富兰克林十三美德”中，他总结了13条周目标：节制、寡言、有序、决心、俭朴、勤勉、诚恳、公正、适度、清洁、镇静、贞洁和谦逊。本杰明·富兰克林不仅践行了这些道德目标，还通过记录自己的进步来保证言出必行。此外，他还制定了一张时间表，将他从5:00起床到10:00就寝间的时间规划出来。
2. He took risks
他愿意冒险
Ben Franklin was by no means a cautious man. Famously known for writing letters in the name of “Silence Goodall” while working at his brother’s printshop, he also ran away to Philadelphia after his brother began to abuse him, ultimately running a successful print store.
富兰克林绝不是谨小慎微之人。最广为人知的事例就是，当他在哥哥的印刷店工作时，曾用笔名“沉默行善者”撰写文章;而且，因为受不了哥哥的虐待，他干脆跑到了费城，但这一出走却使他后来成功经营了一家印刷店。
3. He perfected his public image
他为自己树立良好的公众形象
In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin states that he “took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances of the contrary.” In the words of Jonathan Yardley, Benjamin Franklin was “a self-created and self-willed man who moved through life at a calculated pace toward calculated ends.” He knew that the opinions of others mattered, and the importance of being able to network.
在自传中，本杰明·富兰克林写道他“不仅实际地做到勤勉节俭，而且还避免出现任何不利的公众形象”。用乔纳森·亚德里的话来说，本杰明·富兰克林是一个“自我经营、自我激励的人，在生活中以计划好的步伐走向计划中的成果”。他懂得尊重他人看法，也知道交际的重要性。
4. He was a champion of the common person
他是芸芸众生中的佼佼者
Never identifying with the elite, throughout his life Franklin identified himself as “B. Franklin, printer.” A strong believer in the power of community, he not only organized meetings and founded a library for his fellow citizens, but he also believed that pouring into “the common good” had a divine element. He is quoted stating: “To pour forth benefits to the common good is divine.” In other words, common people can find transcendence in giving back to their own community.
终其一生，富兰克林从不认为自己是精英，而是自诩为“印刷工富兰克林”。作为社区里的中坚信仰者，他不仅组织会议、为市民创建图书馆，还坚信投入公共福利是一件高尚的事。他说：“让公众受益是高尚的。”也就是说，普通人能从回馈自己的社区中得到升华。
5. He was an early riser
他是早起型的人
Famously quoted saying, “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” Benjamin Franklin rose at 5am every morning, asking himself the question “what good shall I do today?”
俗话说：“早睡早起使人健康、富有且智慧。”本杰明·富兰克林每天早上5:00就起床了，同时还会自问“今天我能做什么善事”。
6. He knew how to network
他懂得怎样活络交际
Ben Franklin made friends and business connections everywhere he went. Never a shy man, he had a way with people. Walter Isaacson, a biographer, says of Franklin: “he had a happy talent of being at ease in almost any company, from scrappy tradesmen to wealthy merchants…His most notable trait was his personal magnetism.” This personal magnetism was a huge asset to him in both his business and personal endeavors.
富兰克林无论到哪都能结交到朋友和业务伙伴。他不是怕羞之人，很擅长与人交往。传记作家沃尔特·艾萨克森评价富兰克林说：“他拥有令人愉快的本领，能够和任何人自在相处，不论那人是爱争论的小贩还是富有的商人……他最有魅力的性格就是他的气场。” 这一气场是他个人及业务发展的巨大财富。
7. He was a creative thinker
他是个创意思考的人
Ben Franklin was definitely not one to think inside the box. He is quoted saying, “to create, we must first identify the problem, then offer the best solution possible.” To mention a few, some of his inventions and discoveries include:
富兰克林可不是陷在条条框框里思考的人。在他看来，创新就是发现问题所在，然后努力找到最好的解决办法。以下是他的部分发明与发现：
The Franklin Stove
富兰克林火炉
The first library
第一座图书馆
Lightning rod
避雷针
Glass harmonica
水晶口琴
8. He learned how to prioritize his time
他懂得如何优化时间
From his daily hourly schedule to rising at 5am every morning, Ben Franklin found ways to maximize his daily productivity. He is quoted saying: “Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.” In other words, make the best use of your time and find ways to prioritize, in order to produce your best work possible.
从每天早上5:00起床的日程安排中，富兰克林设法最大化提高自己的白天效率。他说：“不要浪费时间，随时做有用的事情，杜绝任何不必要的行为。”也就是说，为了提高工作效率，我们应该尽可能利用并优化时间。
9. He was frugal
他很节俭
Ben Franklin included frugality as one of his 13 virtues. He realized the importance of living debt-free and spending minimally. He is quoted saying, “a penny saved is a penny earned” and “when you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty.” In order to live a productive life, it is helpful to not be plagued by the stress of debt.
“富兰克林十三美德”中，有一条就是“俭朴”。他认为不欠债不乱花钱非常重要。他说：“省一分钱就等于挣一分钱。”“如果欠债，那说明你又失去了一份自由。”若想过上富有成效的生活，就应该避免被债务压垮。
