CHAPTER 5 REALIZING ONE‘S POTENTIAL
第五章 實現潛能

When you get to the Great Grandstand in the sky and look down on this Game of Life, you will come to realize：there were no limits…!
G.W.F.
當你攀登到空中的大看台，向下看著人生的遊戲，你會領悟到:生命是沒有限制的。
G.W.F.

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.
Louise Hay
如果你接受一種有限制的信念，它就會在你身上實現。
路易士 黑

According to the theory of aerodynamics, the bumble bee is unable to fly. This is because the size, weight and shape of its body in relation to the total wing spread make flying impossible. But the bumble bee, being ignorant of these profound scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway and manages to make a little honey every day.
Author Unknown
根據飛航動力學的理論，大黃蜂是不能夠飛的。由於它身體的大小、重量和形狀，和整個翅膀伸展的相關性，它是不可能飛的。但是大黃蜂根本不理什麼科學理論，盡管飛，到處飛，並且每天還能製造一些蜂蜜出來。
作者不詳

They can because they think they can.
Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
他們能，因為他們認為他們能。
伏吉爾(西元前70-19)

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney (1901-66)
如果你能夢見它，你就能實現它。
華德 迪斯奈(1901-66)

There is a giant asleep within every man. When the giant awakes, miracles happen.
Frederick Faust (1892-1944)
每個人的內在都有一個沈睡的巨人。當巨人醒來，奇蹟就會發生。
伏雷德立克 浮士德(1892-1944)

I am free to be what I want to be and to do what I want to do.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
我可以隨意變成我想變的，做到我想做的。
喬那森 李文思頓 席格爾(李察 巴哈)

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
世上沒有任何東西可以取代毅力。天資不能;沒什麼東西比有天資而不成功的人更普遍。才氣不能;未獲報償的才氣幾乎成為口頭語。教育不能;世上充滿了受教育的失敗者。只有毅力和決心是全能的。
卡文 柯立芝(1872-1933)

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don‘t quit when you’re tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss
成功有點像跟猩猩摔角，你不能在累的時候放棄----你在猩猩累的時候才能退出。
羅伯 史特勞斯

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
做你所能做的，用你所擁有的，在你所在的地方。
希奧多 羅斯福(1858-1919)

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything; but I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
Edward Everette Hale (1822-1909)
我只是一個人，但我是一個人。我不能做每一件事，但我不會讓我不能做的事影響到我能做的事。
愛德華 挨佛立特 海爾(1822-1909)

You‘ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. You‘ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt. You‘ve got to come from the heart if you want it to work.
Susanna Clarke
你必須像沒有人在觀看一樣的跳舞。你必須像絕不會受傷一樣的戀愛。你必須從心出發，如果你要心能作用。
蘇珊那 克拉克

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Sir Thomas Brown (1605-82)
你在尋找的奇蹟，都在你自己內在。
湯姆士 布朗(1605-82)

Oz never did give nothin‘ to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.
America, Tin Man
奧茲從來不曾給予錫人他還沒有的東西。
亞美利加，錫人

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975)
就在現在，你的內在就有能量，可以實現你不敢夢想的事情。只要你改變信念，這個能量就可以開始使用。
馬克斯威爾 馬爾茲(1899-1975)

Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin proverb
相信你擁有它，你就擁有它。
拉丁諺語

So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.
Eagles, Already Gone
往往我們像活在鎖鏈之中，卻從未明暸打開鎖鏈的鑰匙已經在自己身上。
鷹，往事

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
在進入來世的時候，如果還保留著自己妨害自己達成的潛力，那是很危險的。潛力是上帝給予的指示。人必須遵從。
梭林 基爾克家德(1813-55)

God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it into the nest.
Montenegrin proverb
上帝給每一隻鳥食物，但是，並沒有將食物丟進鳥巢裡。
芒特尼格羅人 諺語

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life; Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.
Robert Browning (1812-89)
不管有沒達成，目標讓生命偉大。努力成為莎士比亞，其餘的交給命運。
羅伯特 布朗寧(1812-89)

Most people go to their graves with their songs still unsung.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, adapted
許多人進入墳墓的時候，他們的歌都還沒有唱過。
奧利佛 溫德爾 休姆，改寫

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.
Norman Cousins (1915-90)
死亡並不是生命最大的失敗。當我們還活著的時候，在我們內在死去的東西,才是最大的失敗。
諾曼 柯新斯(1915-90)

Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray.
Yue Fei
莫等閒白了少年頭空悲切。
岳飛

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one‘s best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
人必須有冒險的勇氣，接受自己是一堆可能性，然後在世上從事最有趣的遊戲----盡力達到自己最佳狀態。
哈利 愛默生 佛斯迪克(1878-1969)

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
生命像是一台十段變速跑車。我們有了排檔，大多數人卻從不使用。
查理士M.舒茲

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
最大程度的開發你自己，你所擁有的全都在那裡。
拉夫 華爾多 愛默生(1803-82)

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sidney J. Harris
為了做過的事而懊悔，時間可以沖淡;為了沒有做什麼事而懊悔，卻是最大的悲哀。
西德尼J. 哈理斯

For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “ It might have been. “
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92)
用舌頭或用筆表達的悲哀用語，最悲哀的是:“要是---就—‘’
約翰 格林立夫 懷提爾(1807-92)

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible ?
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
這是你在人間僅有的機會，去進行稱為生命的冒險旅行。為什麼不好好計畫，盡可能豐富、快樂的生活呢？
戴爾 卡內基(1888-1955)

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
如果我們有能力做的事情全都做出來，我們簡直會讓自己震撼。
湯姆士 愛迪生(1847-1931)

The original sin is to limit the IS. Don‘t.
Richard Bach
所謂原罪就是束縛「是」。別這麼做。
理察 巴哈

What keeps you from believing that the universe is yours? Reach out, embrace it. I say, “ the sky‘s the limit! “ So get your bag, get your stuff, and head for the stars… I’ll meet you out there.
Maura Beatty
什麼因素讓你不相信宇宙是你的？走出去，擁抱它。我說，“天空是界限！‘’那麼，背起你的行囊，帶著你的東西，出發到星星那裡去----我會在那裡和你相會。
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