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。
模拉 比提

CHAPTER 4 THE ART OF POSITIVE THINKING
第四章 正向思考的藝術

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind.
William James (1842-1910)
我這一代最大的發現是，人類可以藉著改變頭腦的態度來改變生命。
威廉 詹姆士(1842-1910)

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
好像你已經很快樂一樣的行動，這有助於你達到快樂。
戴爾 卡內基(1888-1955)

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz(1899-1975)
我們的自我印象和我們的習性有結合的傾向：改變其一就會自動改變另一方面。
馬克斯威爾 馬特斯 博士(1899-1975)

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1994), adapted
同類相吸是一個基本律。負面思考絕對帶來負面結果。反之，如果一個人習慣於樂觀、懷抱希望的思考，他的正向思考會賦予行為創造性的動力----以及成功，而不會阻斷順暢。
諾曼 文森 皮爾(1898-1994)，改寫

The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
H.M. Tomlinson (1873-1958)
世界是我們的想像，如果我們改變想法，就能改變世界。
H.M.湯姆林森(1873-1958)

Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes.
The Upanishads (900-600 B.C.)
保持頭腦單純，一個人怎麼想，就會變成怎麼樣。
印度奧義書(西元前900-600)

By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny.
Ruth Barrick Golden
由於你的想法，你每天，甚至時時刻刻在建造自己的生命;你在雕塑自己的命運。
魯斯 巴里克 歌登

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one‘s mind.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
生命並非主要的，或大部分由事實、事件組成。生命是由不斷的吹向頭腦的思考風雨所組成。
馬克 吐溫(1835-1910)

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Lewis L.Dunnington
與其說生命決定你的生活方式，不如說你對待生命的態度決定你的生活方式;與其說發生在你身上的事件決定你的生活，不如說你看待事件的想法決定你的生活。
路易士L.丹寧頓

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly.
Paramahansa Yogananda
如果你允許自己的想法停留在邪惡之中，你自己會變得很醜陋。
巴拉馬韓撒 猷嘉南大

And, if your friend does evil to you, say to him, “ I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did - to yourself ?”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
如果你的朋友對你做了罪惡的事，告訴他：“我原諒你對我做的事，但我怎麼原諒你對自己所做的呢？‘’
佛瑞得李其 尼采(1844-1900)

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
我們是自己的魔鬼;我們將自己逐出自己的伊甸園。
約翰 沃夫岡 馮 高地(1749-1832)

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.
Author Unknown
我們可以選擇將生命視為一連串的艱苦和磨難，或者，我們可以選擇將人生視為寶藏的累積。
作者不詳

Every life has its dark and cheerful hours. Happiness comes from choosing which to remember.
Author Unknown
每個生命都有其黑暗和雀躍的時刻。快樂來自於選擇哪一個去記憶。
作者不詳

The mind is like a river; upon its waters thoughts float through in a constant procession every conscious moment. You stand on a bridge over it and can stop and turn back any thought that comes along. The art of contentment is to let no thought pass that going to disturb you.
Dr. Frank Crane (1861-1928), adapted
頭腦像是一條河流，在每個知覺的時刻，持續不斷的思緒漂流過水面。你站在跨過河流的橋上，可以停住或倒轉任何走過的思緒。滿足的藝術在於不受思緒的干擾。
佛藍克 克來恩 博士(1861-1928),改寫

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James (1842-1910)
成為有智慧的藝術，是知道該忽略什麼的藝術。
威廉 詹姆士(1842-1910)

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior (or anything else) without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), adapted
記住，沒有你的同意，任何人都無法讓你覺得低人一等（或其他）。
艾琳諾 羅斯福(1884-1962),改寫

Nobody has the right to wreck your day, let alone your life. And guess what ? Nobody does, you do…
G.W.F.
沒有人可以破壞你的日子，更不用說你的人生。你猜怎麼？沒有人可以，只有你可以破壞----
G.W.F.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any man I have ever met.
Dwight Moody (1837-99)
我自己給自己的煩惱，遠多於我所遇到的任何人所給的。
懷特 穆迪(1837-99)

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
除非你一直記得，否則被無禮的對待不算什麼。
孔子(西元前551-479)

He who harbors a slight will miss the haven of happiness.
Author Unknown
心懷傲慢的人將錯過快樂的天堂。
作者不詳

It is not possible for the human mind to hold both a positive and negative thought at the same time.
Lily Tomlin, adapted
對人的頭腦而言，同時抱著正向思考和負面思考是不可能的。
莉莉 湯姆林,改寫

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be your day.
Author Unknown
每個明天都有兩個把手，你可以抓住憂慮的把手，也可以抓住熱望的把手。你的選擇決定你的日子。
作者不詳

And so will be your life.
G.W.F.
這也會決定你的人生。
G.W.F.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler (1612-80)
有人有三十分鐘熱情，有人有三十天熱情，人生會成功的是有三十年熱情的人。
艾得華B.巴特勒(1612-80)

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
人只要對任何事有無限的熱情，幾乎都可以成功。
查理士 許華卜

When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
一個人臨死之前，如果能將熱情傳遞給他的子女,他等於是留給他們無價之寶。
湯姆士 愛迪生(1847-1931)

Given the three thousand million years of chance occurrences leading up to the chance encounter of one egg and one sperm that leads to the one cell that becomes you or me…the mere fact of existing should keep us all frozen in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
Opus, Outland
三億年的機率發生，讓一顆卵子和一個精子結合成為細胞，變成你或我，存在的真相應該會讓我們嚇呆了。
著作，奧特藍

There is a Tibetan story about an old, blind turtle who lives in the depths of the ocean. Once every thousand years, the turtle swims to the top of the sea, surfacing for air. Now imagine that there is a wooden ring floating somewhere on the surface of the ocean, and think of how rare it would be for the blind turtle, coming up for air once every thousand years, to put its head through the wooden ring. It is just that rare, say the Tibetans, for a being to gain human birth.
Chop Wood, Carry Water
一則西藏寓言。有一隻瞎眼的烏龜住在深海之中，每隔千年他會游到海上浮出水面呼吸空氣。想像海面上有一個漂流的木環，再想像這隻烏龜正巧將頭套在木環之中，這是多麼稀有的事。西藏人說，一個生命要得到人身就是這麼稀有。
砍柴，挑水

Celebrate your existence !
William Blake (1757-1827)
慶祝你的存在！
威廉 布雷克(1757-1827)

Life for every person should be a journey in jubilance !
Charles Fillmore (1854-1948)
對任何人而言，生命都應該是一個歡喜的旅行。
查理士 飛莫爾(1854-1948)

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.
Author Unknown
如果你立刻失去現有的一切，然後又重新獲得，想想看，你會有多快樂。
作者不詳

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-92)
並非擁有多少，而是享用多少，讓我們快樂。
查理士 史波金(1834-92)

He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
Thomas Secker
對小東西感謝的人享受最多;感恩的心是偉大、快樂的心。
湯姆斯 賽克

If the good Lord took me tomorrow, I have already been luckier than any man has a right to be. Anything else is pure gravy.
G.W.F.
如果上蒼明天將我帶走，我已經比任何人有權利得到的更幸運了。其他的東西都是額外的賞賜。
G.W.F.

There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.
German proverb
沒有人比自認幸運的人更幸運。
德國諺語

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the mother of all the rest.
Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
感激不僅是最大的美德，而且是所有美德之母。
西塞羅(西元前106-43)

There‘s a ‘magic switch’ inside all of us which can transform the worst to the best (or the best to the worst). It should be everyone‘s ultimate goal to discover and master this mechanism.
Anonymous
我們每個人的內在都有一個 ‘神奇開關’ ,它能將最壞的變成最好的(或者最好的變成最壞的)。每個人的終極目標應該是去發現並精通這個機關。
無名氏

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revole at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius (A.D.121-180)
如果你為任何外在的事物而煩惱，這個痛苦不是來自於事物，而是來自於你對它的估計。因此，你在任何時候都可以去除煩惱。
馬庫斯 奧樂利斯(西元前121-180)

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts.
Dr. Frank Crane (1861-1928)
我們最好的朋友，以及最壞的敵人，是我們的想法。
佛藍克 克來恩 博士(1861-1928)

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.
John Milton (1608-74)
心是自己的住所，在其中可以創造地獄中的天堂，或天堂中的地獄。
約翰 密爾頓(1608-74)

The kingdom of God is within you.
Jesus
上帝的國度在你心中。
耶穌

A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.
Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)
智者是心的主人。愚者是心的奴隸。
帕布禮里斯 希樂斯(西元前一世紀)

Nothing is good or bad but that our thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
事物無分好壞，但是我們的觀念造成事物好壞之分。
莎士比亞(1564-1616)

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge (1849-1923)
兩個人從同一處欄杆向外望，一個人看到爛泥，一個人看到星星。
佛雷德立克 藍布立吉(1849-1923)

Be your own palace or the world‘s your jail.
Author Unknown
做你自己的宮殿，否則世界就是你的監獄。
作者不詳

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Martha Washington (1731-1802)
快樂或不幸大部分看我們的性格而非環境。無論我們到哪裡，我們的心中都攜帶著兩者的種子。
馬莎 華盛頓(1731-1802)

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
Talmud
我們不是按照事物的樣子看它們。我們是按照我們自己去看事物。
猶太塔木德經

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back what you are.
Thomas Dreier
世界是一面大鏡子。它反射出你的樣子。
湯姆士 德瑞爾

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
有愛心的人活在愛的世界。有敵意的人活在敵對的世界。你所遇到的每個人都是你的寫照。
小 肯 凱雅

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
我發現,如果你熱愛生命，生命就會愛你。
阿舍 魯賓斯坦(1887-1982)

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda), adapted
竅門在於我們強調什麼。我們不是讓自己悲慘，就是讓自己快樂。工作量是一樣的。
唐 喬安(卡羅斯 卡司坦達),改寫

The real secret of happiness is simply this; to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one‘s own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
Galen Starr Ross
快樂真正的祕密在於:願意享受人生、放心享受人生，同時心中清楚的知道，最不可原諒的罪過是做一個不快樂的人。
蓋仁 史塔 羅斯

We have but one life - whether we spend it laughing or weeping.
Author Unknown
我們只有一生----不管我們用來笑還是用來哭。
作者不詳

This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.
R.A. Campbell
這是有史以來最棒的一天。明天會更好。
R.A.侃貝爾

What a wonderful life I‘ve had ! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Colette (1873-1954)
我的人生是多麼美妙啊！我真希望我更早就了解到這一點。
哥地(1873-1954)

CHAPTER 3 ROMANCING THE PRESENT
第三章 活在當下

Focus on today. Tomorrow is but a fantasy; yesterday is but a memory. Today is the only reality.
Anonymous
集中在今天。明天只是幻想; 昨天只是回憶。今天是唯一的真實。
無名氏

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment widely and earnestly.
Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
身心健康的秘密在於，不哀悼過去，不憂慮未來，廣大而認真的活在此時此刻。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)

A magical perspective: If, in your mind, you can bring up the drawbridges on yesterday and tomorrow and restrict yourself to today…your cares will evaporate and your joys will skyrocket.
Anonymous
魔法般的觀點：在你心中，如果你能升起昨日和明日之間的吊橋，限定自己活在今日------你的煩惱將消失、歡樂將高漲。
無名氏

Stay present. You‘ll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
Dan Millman
住在當下。如果你真的要擔憂，以後總是有時間擔憂。
丹 密爾曼

Forever is but a trail of ‘ Nows ‘. The best a man can do is live every one fully in its turn.
Author Unknown
永遠只是一連串的“現在‘’。人能做的是在每一個現在徹底的活。
作者不詳

I don‘t know what tomorrow will bring - except old age and death - but I do know that I do have today, one absolutely glorious day that I will savor and make the most of as if it were my last one… because it may be!
G.W.F. (1946-1988?)
除了老化和死亡，我不知道明天會帶來什麼。但是我真的知道我確實擁有今天，絕對美好的一天。我要好好品嚐這一天、充分利用這一天，好像它是我最後的一天-------因為，它很可能是最後一天。
G.W.F.(1946-1988?)

Death plucks my ears and says, “ Live, I am coming. “
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
(Radio address on his ninetieth birthday)
死亡扯著我的耳朵，說道，“活著，我已經來了”。
小奧利佛 溫淂爾 休姆（1841-1935）
(九十歲時電台演說)

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson(1709-84)
相信我，先生，如果一個人知道兩星期內它就要被吊死，這會讓他的頭腦驚人的集中。
撒姆耳 詹森(1709-84)

I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one for me.
Andre Gide (1869-1951)
我會一朵花一朵花的享受這個夏季，就好像是我最後一個夏季。
安得列 及得(1869-1951)

You don‘t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you‘re going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
你無法選擇怎麼死、什麼時候死。你只能夠決定怎麼活。現在。
瓊 拜斯

Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you‘re going to miss in the years ahead.
Author Unknown
好好享受。來年你還是會錯過許多好時光。
作者不詳

These are magic years… and therefore magic days… and therefore magic moments.
Anonymous
這是神奇的歲月---神奇的日子---神奇的片刻。
無名氏

We don‘t remember days; we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese (1908-50)
我們不記得日子;我們記得的是片刻。
希塞耳 帕為斯(1908-50)

Life is nothing but a series of moments. Start living the moments and the years will take care of themselves.
G.W.F.
生命是一連串的片刻,不是別的。開始依片刻來活，年月會照顧他們自己。
G.W.F.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
Buddha(563-483B.C.)
生命在此刻運行。失去此刻就失去生命。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)

It‘s only possible to live happily ever after on a moment-to-moment basis.
Margaret Bonnano
從此以後要快樂的活著,只有片刻接片刻的方式才可能。
馬格利特 伯那諾

In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead.
Dan Millman
在每一個片刻，你生命的品質有成列的選擇。你可以充分的活著，也可以相對的死亡。
丹 米爾曼

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
對於能夠洞察到這個道理的人，每一個片刻都是黃金片刻。
亨利 米勒(1891-1980)

For you, the world is weird because if you‘re not bored with it you’re at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while; in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda), adapted
對你來說，這個世界很奇怪。因為你不是厭煩它，就是反對它。對我來說，這個世界也很奇怪。它是驚人、可畏、神祕、深不可測的。我勸你要將每一個行動納入計算，因為你只來到這裡短暫的時間。事實上是非常短，短到你無法見證它的奇妙。
唐 求安(卡勒斯 卡司坦達)，改寫

Do not delay; the golden moments fly !
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
別遲疑; 黃金時刻會飛走！
亨利 華斯握斯 隆非羅(1807-82)

Every now and then, I become absolutely obsessed with the moment…but not nearly enough.
Anonymous
時常，我非常著迷於某個片刻----但一點也不夠。
無名氏

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real. This does not mean you live for the moment. It means you live the moment.
Leo Buscaglia
只有此刻。現在。你在這一瞬間經驗到的才是真實的。這不是說你為此刻而活，而是你活在此刻。
李奧 巴斯卡格李雅

We all cling to the past or long for the future, making us unavailable to the present.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, adapted
我們依戀於過去或渴望於未來，以致於無法利用現在。
巴格溫 許利 拉力許，改寫

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
當你走路、吃、旅行的時候，人要在那裡。否則你會錯過大部分的生命。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)

Great is the man who has not lost his child-like heart.
Mencius (371-288 B.C.)
未曾失去赤子之心的人是最了不起的。
門席爾斯(西元前371-288)

On Arturo Toscanini‘s eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter, what his father ranked as his most important achievement. The son replied, “ For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life - whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange. “
Ardis Whitman
在阿度羅八十歲生日，有人問他兒子華特，他父親自認最重要的成就是什麼。華特回答：“對他而言沒有這種東西。他在某個片刻正好在做的事就是最重要的事---不論是在指揮交響樂或剝橘子皮‘’
雅提斯 懷特曼

You‘re searching, Joe, for things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
喬，你在尋找不存在的東西。我指開始這種東西。沒有開始、也沒有結束，只有中間的過程。
羅伯特 佛洛斯特(1874-1963)

The little things ? The little moments ? They aren‘t little.
Jon Kabat - Zinn
小事情？小片刻？它們一點都不小。
炯 卡倍特—晉

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable.
Margaret Storm Jameson
活著的唯一方法是將每一分鐘都視為不可重複的奇蹟，就是這樣，奇蹟，而且不會重複的。
馬格利特 斯托姆 詹姆森

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath - so what does that make today worth ?!
Og Mandino (1923-96),adapted
即使用全世界的黃金也不能替一個垂死的人多買一口氣，所以，知道今天的價值了嗎？
歐格 曼迪諾(1923-96)，改寫

Every day is my best day; this is my life. I‘m not going to have this moment again.
Bernie Siegel
每一天都是我最好的一天;這是我的生命。我不會再度擁有這個片刻。
伯尼 席格爾

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia
為明天而活，就是永遠脫離現實一天。
李奧 巴斯卡格李雅

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
在你做得到的時候摘你的玫瑰花雷，舊時光飛去;今天聞得到的花朵，明天將會凋謝。
羅伯特 賀立克(1591-1674)

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
願你活過生命中的每一天。
求那山 史威伏特(1667-1745)

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)

生命之歌 第一章 選擇自己的信念

CHAPTER1 CHOOSING ONE‘S BELIEFS
第一章 選擇自己的信念

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato(427-347 B.C)
沒有經過檢驗的生命是不值得活的.
柏拉圖（西元前427-347）

Everything has been figured out except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-80)
除了如何活著，其他每一件事都被計算好了。
珍 保羅 沙特 （1905-80）

All men should strive to learn before they die---what they are runniig from,and to,and why.
James Thurber(1894-1961)
在死亡來臨之前，所有人都應該努力學習----他們從哪裡來、到哪裡去、為什麼？
詹姆士 特柏 （1894-1961）

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. You cannot educated a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.(1809-94)
從搖籃開始，我們就被烙上部落的圖騰。無論一個人理智上多麼的排斥，你都很難將深深種植在他想像中的迷信恐懼拿掉。
奧力佛 溫德耳 休姆 爵士（1809-94）

We live in a world of many illusions and much of human belief and behavior is ritualized nonsense.
Wes “Scoop” Nisker
我們活在一個充滿幻象的世界，這個世界，人們的信仰和行為是儀式化的無聊。
魏斯 “獨家” 尼斯可

To a large degree ‘reality’ is whatever the people who are around at the time agree to.
Milton H. Miller
在相當程度，“事實” 是現在許多人同意的東西。
密爾敦 Ｈ. 密勒

A great many people think they are thinking when the are rearranging their prejudices.
William James (1842-1910)
許多人認為他們在思考，其實，他們只是在重組他們的偏見而已。
威廉 詹姆士 （1942-1910）

The truth will set you free. But before it does , it might make you angry.
Jerry Joiner, adapted
真理將解放你，但是，在解放你之前，他可能讓你憤怒。
杰瑞 瓊那 ，改寫

If you make people think they are think‘ing , they will love you; but if you really make them think , the will hate you.
Don Marquis (1878-1937)
如果你讓人們認為他們在思考，他們會愛你，但是，如果你讓他們真正的思考，他們會恨你。
唐 馬奎斯（1878-1937）

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sir William Drummond(1585-1649)
不願思考的是機器人；不能思考的是笨蛋；不敢思考的是奴隸。
威廉 度拉們 爵士（1585-1649）

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when adult is afraid of the light.
Plato(427-347 B.C)
我們很容易原諒害怕黑暗的小孩，生命真正的悲劇是害怕光明的成人。
柏拉圖（西元前427-347）

I‘m going to turn on the light, and we’ll be two people in a room looking at each other and wondering why on earth we were afraid of the dark.
Gale Wilhelm
我將要點亮燈火，我們兩人將在斗室中相望，並且疑惑著，為什麼我們害怕黑暗。
蓋而 威漢

Come to the edge, He said. The said: we are afraid . Come to the edge, He said, The came. He pushed them , and they flew---
Guillaume Apollinaire(1880-1918)
到邊邊來，他說。他們回答:我們怕。到邊邊來，他再說。他們過來了。他一推，他們就飛起來了------
奎勞 阿鄱涅（1880-1918）

The high-minded man must care more for what‘s right than for what people think.
Aristotle(384-22B.C),adapted
心靈高尚的人必須關切什麼是正義的，而不是眾人的說法。
亞里斯多德（西元前384-22）,改寫

生命之歌 生活藝術的閃亮思想全世界的真理寶藏

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永恆的智慧
蓋瑞 Ｗ. 芬齊克 編輯
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中文版 林正杰 譯
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中文版序
1998，我經歷了人生一連串最重大的失敗，首先，在選舉中以荒唐的得票數落選。同時，由於我的錯誤，不得不結束一段非常美滿、長達五年的愛情。我所投資的事業，也面臨危機。好幾個月，我繭居在家中，足不出戶，自己想像自己是一隻四腳朝天的烏龜，覺得被朋友、社會所拋棄。一點都不像人們所暱稱的“小霸王’’。
感謝好友蔡伸章，適時介紹了這本書給我。閱讀這本書的過程，讓我做了徹徹底底的自我反省，總結出自己為人處事許許多多的幼稚錯誤。同時，也給自己進行了一段「愛的心理治療」，讓我走出黑暗、沮喪的深谷。
從形式上來看，這本書只是一本普通的格言集，在舊書攤【一打一毛錢】的quotation books。但是，這本書其實是一本有關生命議題的ＢＩＢＬＥ。
作者芬齊克花了三十年的時間，閱讀數百本書，從古今的智者無數的話語中篩選，主題都集中在“生命的意義’’、“如何讓人生活得快樂’’。
他還找了二十五位朋友組成【二十五人委員會】共同來參與討論、編排，最後才完成這本七百則、體例完整的【永恆的智慧】。
芬齊克自稱是一個“飽經挫折的哲學家’’，出版這本書的目的只是為了和人結緣分享。窮其一生，他創造出這本書，在版權頁卻聲明“這本書中的箴言，不須出版者同意，可以以任何形式複製，只要目的是為了增進生命的快樂與熱情’’。
我實在很讚嘆芬齊克這個人，也相信這本書會改變很多人的生命。這一本書確實是全世界真理的寶藏。1999，我將它翻譯出來。本書以中英對照，如果有翻譯不夠信、達、雅的地方，希望能獲得糾正。
林正杰

生命之歌 第一章 選擇自己的信念

生命之歌
第一章
選擇自己的信念

CHAPTER1 CHOOSING ONE'S BELIEFS

第一章
選擇自己的信念



The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Plato(427-347 B.C)

沒有經過檢驗的生命是不值得活的.

柏拉圖（西元前427-347）



Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-80)

除了如何活著，其他每一件事都被計算好了。

珍
保羅
沙特
（1905-80）



All men should strive to learn before they die---what they are runniig from,and to,and why.

James Thurber(1894-1961)

在死亡來臨之前，所有人都應該努力學習----他們從哪裡來、到哪裡去、為什麼？

詹姆士
特柏
（1894-1961）



We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. You cannot educated a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.(1809-94)

從搖籃開始，我們就被烙上部落的圖騰。無論一個人理智上多麼的排斥，你都很難將深深種植在他想像中的迷信恐懼拿掉。

奧力佛
溫德耳
休姆
爵士（1809-94）



We live in a world of many illusions and much of human belief and behavior is ritualized nonsense.

Wes "Scoop" Nisker

我們活在一個充滿幻象的世界，這個世界，人們的信仰和行為是儀式化的無聊。

魏斯 "獨家" 尼斯可




To a large degree 'reality' is whatever the people who are around at the time agree to.

Milton H. Miller

在相當程度，"事實" 是現在許多人同意的東西。


密爾敦
Ｈ. 密勒



A great many people think they are thinking when the are rearranging their prejudices.

William James (1842-1910)

許多人認為他們在思考，其實，他們只是在重組他們的偏見而已。

威廉
詹姆士
（1942-1910）



The truth will set you free. But before it does , it might make you angry.

Jerry Joiner, adapted

真理將解放你，但是，在解放你之前，他可能讓你憤怒。

杰瑞
瓊那
，改寫



If you make people think they are think'ing , they will love you; but if you really make them think , the will hate you.

Don Marquis (1878-1937)

如果你讓人們認為他們在思考，他們會愛你，但是，如果你讓他們真正的思考，他們會恨你。

唐
馬奎斯（1878-1937）



He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Sir William Drummond(1585-1649)

不願思考的是機器人；不能思考的是笨蛋；不敢思考的是奴隸。

威廉
度拉們
爵士（1585-1649）



We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when adult is afraid of the light.

Plato(427-347 B.C)

我們很容易原諒害怕黑暗的小孩，生命真正的悲劇是害怕光明的成人。

柏拉圖（西元前427-347）



I'm going to turn on the light, and we'll be two people in a room looking at each other and wondering why on earth we were afraid of the dark.

Gale Wilhelm

我將要點亮燈火，我們兩人將在斗室中相望，並且疑惑著，為什麼我們害怕黑暗。

蓋而
威漢



Come to the edge, He said. The said: we are afraid . Come to the edge, He said, The came. He pushed them , and they flew---

Guillaume Apollinaire(1880-1918)

到邊邊來，他說。他們回答:我們怕。到邊邊來，他再說。他們過來了。他一推，他們就飛起來了------

奎勞
阿鄱涅（1880-1918）



The high-minded man must care more for what's right than for what people think.

Aristotle(384-22B.C),adapted

心靈高尚的人必須關切什麼是正義的，而不是眾人的說法。

亞里斯多德（西元前384-22）,改寫