1. There comes a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it's not giving up. It's realizing you don't need certain people and things and the drama they bring.
当你在生活中厌倦了追赶众人、凡事追求完美的时候，不要放弃理想，而是认识到有些人、有些事以及相应的场面是你不需要的。
2. If a person wants to be a part of your life he will make an obvious effort to do so. Don't bother reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
假如某人想成为你生命中的一部分，他应当为此付出努力。犯不着在心灵里为那些无意停留的人预备一个空间。
3. If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down—which is not always as obvious and easy as it sounds.
想要飞翔，就得摆脱那些令你下坠的东西——这些东西有时不是那么显而易见的。
4. Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing.
哪怕失败的行动也十倍胜过什么都不做。
5. Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success. You don't fail by falling down. You fail by never getting back up. Sometimes you just have to forget how you feel, remember what you deserve, and keep pushing forward.
每一个成功的背后都有失败的踪迹，而每一次失败都通向成功。摔倒不是失败，再也不爬起来才是失败。有时候你只要忘记自己的感受而牢记自己的目标，并一直向前推进。
6. When you get to know people with different ethnic backgrounds, from different cities and countries, who live at various socioeconomic levels, you begin to realize that everyone basically wants the same things. They want validation, love, happiness, fulfillment and hopes for a better future. The way they pursue these desires is where things branch off, but the fundamentals are the same. You can relate to almost everyone everywhere if you look past the superficial facades that divide us.
结识来自不同种族背景、不同城市和国家，处于社会不同阶层的人后，你会了解到每个人都有同样的基本需求，那就是得到认可、获得爱情和幸福、得以自我实现和对美好明天的希冀。他们追逐梦想的途径各不相同，但本质上是一致的。透过看似不同的肤浅表象你可以理解世界上每一个人。
7. The more things you own, the more your things own you. Less truly gives you more freedom. Read "The Joy of Less".
你拥有的越多，受到的束缚就越大。“简单”真的能给你更多的自由。请读一下《The Joy of Less》这本书。
8. While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy. This is as true for friendships as it is for intimate relationships. Finding a companion or a friend isn't about trying to transform yourself into the perfect image of what you think they want. It's about being exactly who you are and then finding someone who appreciates that.
在你忙于寻找完美佳人时，很可能会错过那个能给你最完美幸福的不完美的人。无论是情人关系还是朋友关系，这都是真理。寻找伴侣或朋友，不是让自己去迎合什么人对完美的想象，而是展现真实的自我并找到那个能欣赏它的人。
9. Relationships must be chosen wisely. It's better to be alone than to be in bad company. There's no need to rush. If something is meant to be, it will happen—in the right time, with the right person, and for the best reason.
要明智地选择自己的人际关系。与其交个坏朋友倒不如独处。不必仓促行事，该发生的总会发生——因了最巧的机缘，在合适的时间出现了合适的人。
10. Making a thousand friends is not a miracle. A miracle is making one friend who will stand by your side when thousands are against you.
交一千个朋友不算奇迹，奇迹是当千万人跟你作对时，有一个人站在你一边。
11. Someone will always be better looking. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be more charismatic. But they will never be you – with your exact ideas, knowledge and skills.
总会有人比你更漂亮、更聪明、更有魅力，但他们都不可能成为你——拥有你独特的思想、知识和技能。
12. Making progress involves risk. Period. You can't make it to second base with your foot on first.
取得进步总要冒些风险。没说的，你不可能站在一垒接住二垒的球。
13. Every morning you are faced with two choices: You can aimlessly stumble through the day not knowing what's going to happen and simply react to events at a moment's notice, or you can go through the day directing your own life and making your own decisions and destiny. Read "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".
每天早晨你都面临两种选择：漫无目的无所事事平平庸庸蹉跎一日？还是独立自主把握人生与命运度过一天？读一下《高效能人士的七个习惯》。
14. Everyone makes mistakes. If you can't forgive others, don't expect others to forgive you. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.
每个人都会犯错误，如果你不原谅别人，就别指望别人会原谅你。宽恕是释放囚徒，这个囚徒原来正是你自己。
15. It's okay to fall apart for a little while. You don't always have to pretend to be strong, and there is no need to constantly prove that everything is going well. You shouldn't be concerned with what other people are thinking either —cry if you need to—it's healthy to shed your tears. The sooner you do, the sooner you will be able to smile again.
偶尔崩溃一下也没关系。不必总是冒充强大，不必总是冒充诸事顺遂。你用不着介意人人都想做的事——想哭就哭吧，泪水流出来有利于健康。早一点流泪，就能早一点再次微笑。
16. We sometimes do things that are permanently foolish just because we are temporarily upset. A lot of heartache can be avoided if you learn to control your emotions.
暂时的心烦意乱可能干出永久性傻事。学会控制情绪可以避免许多伤心之痛。
17. Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right. There are many roads to what's right. You cannot judge others by your own past. They are living a different life than you. What might be good for one person may not be good for another. What might be bad for one person might change another person’s life for the better. You have to allow people to make their own mistakes and their own decisions.
不要自以为是，认为别人是错误的。成功的路千万条，不能拿自己的过去评判他人。人家与你的生活处境不一样。对你来说的好事对别人来说不见得好，对你来说的坏事或许能让另一个人的生活改观。应当允许他人犯他们自己的错误做他们自己的选择。
18. Nobody is perfect, and nobody deserves to be perfect. Nobody has it easy. You never know what people are going through. Every one of us has issues. So don't belittle yourself or anyone else. Everybody is fighting their own unique war.
人无完人，人也不该做完人，那对谁来说都不容易。你体会不到别人是怎么熬过来的。各人都有各人的问题，所以不要小看自己和任何一个人。每个人都在打他们自己那场战争。
19. A smile doesn't always mean a person is happy. Sometimes it simply means they are strong enough to face their problems.
微笑并不总是代表快乐，有时它只代表我们足够强大去正视困难。
20. The happiest people I know keep an open mind to new ideas and ventures, use their leisure time as a means of mental development, and love good music, good books, good pictures, good company and good conversation. And oftentimes they are also the cause of happiness in others—me in particular.
我认识的最快乐的人，都对新观点新事物持有开放的心态，业余时间用来发展心智，热爱好书，优美的音乐、绘画，好朋友和有趣的谈话。通常他们也是其他人快乐的源泉——尤其是对我来说。
21. You can't take things too personally. Rarely do people do things because of you. They do things because of them.
为人处世不要太“各色”。人们很少会从你的角度、而是从他们自己的角度行事。
22. Feelings change, people change, and time keeps rolling. You can hold on to past mistakes or you can create your own happiness. A smile is a choice, not a miracle. True happiness comes from within. Don't make the mistake of waiting on someone or something to come along and make you happy.
感情会变，人会变，时间滚滚向前。你要么纠结于从前的错误，要么打造自己的幸福。微笑不是奇迹，而是一种选择。真正的幸福源自内心。不要误以为可以坐等什么人、什么事带给自己幸福。
23. It's much harder to change the length of your life than it is to change the depth of it.
改变生命的深度，要比改变生命的长度容易得多。
24. You end up regretting the things you did NOT do far more than the things you did.
你后悔“没做”的事，会远远多于“做过”的事。
25. When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
一旦你停止追逐错误的东西，就给正确的东西一个追上你的机会。
26. One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.
人生最大的挑战，是在一个力求让你变得跟众人一样的世界上做你自己。
27. Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things. Read The Book of Awesome.
享受一些小事情，有一天你回过头，会发现它们都是大事情。读一下《The book of Awesome》这本书。
28. Anyone can make a difference. Making one person smile can change the world, maybe not the whole world, but their world.
每个人都能发挥作用。令他人微笑就能改变世界，也许不是整个世界，但却是他们的世界。
29. Everything is a life lesson. Everyone you meet, everything you encounter, etc. They're all part of the learning experience we call 'life.' Never forget to acknowledge the lesson, especially when things don't go your way. If you don't get a job that you wanted or a relationship doesn't work, it only means something better is out there waiting. And the lesson you just learned is the first step towards it.
一切都是生命的教程，你碰到的每个人，遭遇的每件事……它们都是人生经验的一部分。千万不要忽略这些课程，特别是事情不顺的时候。倘若你没得到期望中的工作，或者跟某人的关系搞砸了，那仅仅意味着某种更好的东西就在那里等待，你刚刚学会的一课就是朝它迈出第一步。
30. Regardless of how filthy your past has been, your future is still spotless. Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every day is a fresh start. Each day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.
无论你的过去多么糟糕，未来仍然是纤尘不染。不要让昨日的碎片开启新的一天，要让每一天都成为一个新的开始。每天早晨我们醒过来，都是余生的第一天。
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