生命之歌 第二章 全然的活著

CHAPTER2 LIVING LIFE TO ITS FULLEST
第二章 全然的活著

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
Leo Buscaglia
對於熱愛許多事物的人來講，人世就是天堂。
禮偶 巴斯卡格禮阿

Follow your desire as long as you live; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
Ptah-hotep(c.2600 B.C.)
Oldest known author by name
只要你活著，就聽從你的慾望；不要減少滿足慾望的時間，因為，浪費時間就是對靈魂的憎惡。
巴何特 （大約西元前2600）
知道名字最古老的作者

Time is infinitely more precious than money, and there is nothing common between them. You cannot accumulate time; you cannot borrow time; you cannot tell how much time have left in the Bank of life. Time is life-----
Israel Davidson (1870-1939)
時間比金錢重要得多，在時間之中很少東西能夠類比。你無法累積時間、借到時間、你無法說出在生命的銀行中還有多少時間。時間就是生命-------
以色列 大衛森 （1870-1939）

Enjoy life ---there are no re-runs.
Shirl Lowery
享受生命----生命不會重新來過。
雪兒 樓兒禮

First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying---and suddenly realize I forgot to live.
Author Unknown
起先，我急得要死，想快點讀完高中去上大學。
接著，我急得要死，想讀完大學去工作。
接著，我急得要死，想結婚生子。
接著，我急得要死，希望孩子快長大，我可以回去工作。
接著，我急得要死，想退休。
現在，我真的要死了----突然間明暸到，我忘了去活。
作者不詳

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Bene‘t (1898-1943)
生命不是在死亡中失去﹔生命一分鐘一分鐘失去，一天一天失去，在成千個不留意的情況中失去。
史提分 文森 柏涅 （1898-1943）

Resolved：To live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-58)
我曾經下決心：當我活著的時候，一定要以最大的力氣來活，同時，就像我希望的，從那時起，我已經下過一萬次的決心。
瓊納山 愛得華(1703-58)

Start by admitting from cradle to tomb, it isn‘t that long a stay.
Liza Minnelli, Cabaret
從搖籃到墳墓，生命的停留並不長，從認知這一點開始。
麗莎明妮麗，酒店

My own experience has taught me this：if you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972)
我的經驗告訴我：如果你等待一切都很安全、都很有保障的完美時刻，它是不會來的。爬山、贏得競賽、持久的快樂都不會達成。
莫理斯 契瓦力 （1888-1972）

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West (1892-1980)
猶豫不決的人是最傻的人。
梅 魏斯特(1892-1980)

The follies which a person regrets most in his life are those he didn‘t commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland(1876-1950)
人一生中最懊悔的傻事是他有機會但沒作的傻事。
海倫 羅蘭(1876-1950)

Water which is too pure has no fish.
Ts‘ai Ken T’an
水太清則無魚
菜根談

If I had my life to live over again, I‘d try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I’d be sillier than I have been on this trip. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers and watch more sunsets. I would have more actual troubles and less imaginary ones. Oh, I‘ve had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I‘d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else, just moments, one after another…I would pick more daisies.
Nadine Stair (at age 89)
如果我的生命重新來過，下一次，我要犯更多的錯誤。我會放輕鬆。
我會比這一趟旅程更糊塗。我要爬更多山、在更多河流游泳、看更多的日落。我願意有更多實際的煩惱而不是想像的煩惱。喔，我已擁有很多的片刻，如果我能重來，我要擁有更多的片刻。事實上，我會試著不要別的，只要很多片刻，一個接一個-------我要摘更多的雛菊。
那丁 斯太耳(于89歲)

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Charles F. Gellert
如果你要死了，你會希望一生怎麼過，現在就那麼過。
查理士 Ｆ. 杰樂特

There was a wise man in the Easata whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.
Alfred Mercier
依沙達有一個智者，他固定的禱告辭是：希望能夠用明天的眼睛來看今天。
阿福雷得 馬希耳

Imagine returning to the misty past from the distant future. Embrace and savor life now as you would…
Anonymous
想像你從遙遠的未來回到模糊的過去。擁抱並且品嚐你現在的生活，照你希望的--------
作者不詳

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
Talmud
在最後審判日，一個人要被審問每一件他該享受,但沒享受的被允許的事。
塔木德經（猶太教法典）

The 11th commandment：Thou shalt be happy.
Author Unknown
第十一誡：你要快樂。
作者不詳

If your morals make your life dreary, depend upon it： they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94),adapted
如果你的道德觀讓你生活沈悶，請相信：它們是錯的。
羅伯特 路易士 史提文森(1850-94)，改寫

What is alive, and open, and active, is good. All that makes for inertia, lifelessness, dreariness, is bad. This is the essence of morality.
D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930)
有活力、開放、活潑的東西都是好的。會讓你遲鈍、沒有活力、陰鬱沮喪的都是錯的。這就是道德的精義。
D.H.勞倫斯(1885-1930)

Life is too important to be taken too seriously.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), adapted
生命太重要，所以不能太嚴肅。
奧斯卡 懷爾德(1854-1900)，改寫

Maybe you are here on earth to learn that life is what you make it, and it‘s to be enjoyed.
Dick Sutphen
也許你到地球來的目的，就是要認識：生命就是你創造的東西，生命也是你該享受的東西。
迪克 書芬

The most wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-94)
所有的日子當中，一個人最浪費的是沒有笑聲的日子。
尼古拉斯 錢佛(1741-94)

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87)
快樂的藝術在於從平常事物中提煉快樂的能力。
亨利 華德 畢契爾(1813-87)

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don‘t miss it.
Leo Buscaglia
生命是很巨大、很不可思議的謎，我們唯一能確定知道的是此時此地。別錯過。
李奧 巴士卡格李雅

Keep in mind this daily notion： There are no ordinary moments.
Dan Millman, adapted
謹記這個日常的想法：沒有平凡的時刻。
丹 米爾曼，改寫

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
如果我們能看清一朵花的奇蹟，我們整個生命都會改變。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as only to survive…？
Ray Stevens, Mr. Businessman
你夠資格活得有生命力，或者你的見識有限，只能夠勉強活著------?
雷 史提芬斯，企業家先生

God is always filling us with endless opportunities and sources of happiness…we just keep leaking.
Dan Millman, adapted
上帝總是填滿我們無窮的機會和快樂的源頭-----我們卻不停的把它漏掉。
丹 密爾曼，改寫

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
當我們將注意力緊繫在某個東西，即使只是一片草葉，它本身也會變成一個不可思議、令人敬畏、無法形容的偉大世界。
亨利 米勒(1891-1980)

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.
Israel Baal Shem
這個世界充滿了奇觀和奇蹟，但是人用小小的手遮住了雙眼，以致於看不見東西。
以色列 巴 軒

We take for granted the miraculous dance of creation, but the truly enlightened continuously see it as if for the first time.
Wes “Scoop” Nisker, adapted
對於創造物神奇的舞蹈，我們視為當然，而沒有像是第一次看見一樣，不停的、敞開的看。
魏斯“獨家‘’尼斯可，改寫

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), adapted
如果星星在每一千年只有一個晚上出現，人們將會多麼驚奇而崇拜呢。
拉夫 華爾多 愛默生(1803-82)，改寫

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
真正的發現之旅並不是看到很多新的景觀，而是有了新的眼睛。
馬色爾 普洛斯特(1871-1922)

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
我常想，如果每個人在成年的早期都經歷過幾天盲聾之痛，會是多麼大的福氣。黑暗將會讓他讚嘆光明，無聲將會教他聲音的喜悅。
海倫 凱勒(1880-1968)

To be blind is bad, but worse it is to have eyes and not to see.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
瞎眼不好，更糟糕的是有眼睛卻不去看。
海倫 凱勒(1880-1968)

Take time to marvel at the wonders of life.
G.W.F.
從容的讚嘆生命的驚奇。
G.W.F.

Don‘t hurry. Don’t worry. You‘re only here on a short visit, so don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.
Walter Hagan (1892-1969)
不要急躁、不要憂慮。你到這兒只是一個短短的訪問，所以，不要忘了駐足下來，聞一聞玫瑰的芬芳。
華特 海根(1892-1969)

Is this the little girl I carried; is this the little boy at play？I don‘t remember growing older…when did they? When did she grow to be a beauty; when did he grow to be so tall? Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset…quickly flow the days.
Fiddler on the Roof
這是我抱過的那個小女孩嗎？這是在玩的那個小男孩嗎？我不記得有變老-----他們什麼時候變大了？什麼時候她長得亭亭玉立; 什麼時候他長得這樣高大？日出、日落、日出、日落-------時光快速的流過。
屋頂上的提琴手

Teach your children to remind you, “ But, Daddy, I‘m only going to be young once ! “
Anonymous
教你的孩子提醒你，“但是，爸爸，我只是想要再年輕一次！‘’
無名氏

I close my eyes, only for a moment… and the moment‘s gone.
Kansas, Dust in the Wind
我閉起眼睛，僅僅片刻------而這個片刻已經過去了。
堪薩斯，風中之塵

You better take a fool‘s advice - take care of your own; ‘ cause one day they’re here, next day they‘re gone.
Don Henley, New York Minute
你最好聽聽一個愚者的建議---留意好你自己; 因為今天他們在這兒，明天他們就走了。
唐 亨利，紐約備忘

Savor the smiles and laughter of your children -------there is nothing more important.
G.W.F.
欣賞你的小孩的笑容和笑聲------沒什麼東西是更重要的了。
G.W.F.

All the wonderful things in life are so simple that one is not aware of their wonder until they are beyond touch. Never have I felt the wonder and beauty and joy of life so keenly as now in my grief that Johnny is not here to enjoy them. Today, when I see parents impatient or tired or bored with their children, I wish I could say to them, “ but they are alive, think of the wonder of that ! They may be a care and a burden, but think, they are alive ! You can touch them - what a miracle ! “
Frances Gunther
生命中所有精彩的東西都如此單純，因而在它們變得摸不著之前，人往往沒有察覺它們。過去我從不知生命的精彩、美麗、與歡樂，直到尊尼已經不在了，不能再享受生命的種種，在悲傷之中我才敏銳的體會到生命。今天，當我看父母們對他們的孩子不耐煩、厭倦、討厭時, 我真希望對他們說:“但是，他們是活生生的，想想看那有多神奇！他們或許需要照顧、或許是負擔，但想想，他們是活生生的！你可以觸摸他們-----好一個奇蹟！‘’
法蘭斯 岡舍

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
生命只有兩種方式。一種是認為沒有任何東西是奇蹟。另一種是認為每種東西都是奇蹟。
愛伯特 愛因斯坦(1879-1955)

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it‘s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
活著，能夠看、能夠走，擁有房子、音樂、圖畫-----這些全都是奇蹟。從奇蹟到奇蹟，我採取這樣的生活技巧。
阿舍 魯賓斯坦(1887-1982)

Cherish your yesterdays; dream your tomorrows; but live your todays !
Author Unknown
珍惜昨日、夢想明日，但活在今日！
作者不詳

There will come a day when you‘d trade all of your tomorrows for a single yesterday. Enjoy these ‘yesterdays’ fully.
Anonymous
總有一天，你會願意拿所有的明天來交換一個昨天。盡情的享受這些“昨天‘’吧。
無名氏

Oh, to be seventy again !
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.(1841-1935)
(said in his 87th year, while watching a pretty girl)
喔，希望能再一次的七十歲！
小奧利佛 溫淂爾 休姆（1841-1935）
(當他87歲，看到一位美麗的女孩時說的話)

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
活得好、常常笑、多戀愛，這樣的人叫成功。
羅伯特 路易斯 史提文森(1850-94)