1. All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
2. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
3. Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine
失败乃成功之母。
4. For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
5. When a man speaks or acts with good intention. Then happiness follows him like his shadow that never leaves him.
当一个人的言谈和举止怀着良善动机，快乐便像影子般地跟随他。
6. From moment to moment, a wise man removes his own impurities, as a smith removes the dross of silver.
聪明的人时常清除内心的污垢，就如同工匠清理银矿中的杂质。
7. Make haste in doing good, restrain your mind from evil. Whosoever is slow in doing well, his mind delights in evil?
及时行善，以免你的心里再起坏念头。凡是不能及时行善的人，内心常会生起恶念。
8. By other's faults, wise men correct their own.
他山之石，可以攻玉。
9. There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate; there is no net like delusion, no river like craving.
贪心是最猛烈的火，憎恨是最坏的执着，迷惑和错误的见解是最难脱逃的网，爱欲是最难渡过的河流。
10. One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I’ll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
一个人应该舍弃愤怒，拔除傲慢，超越所有的束缚。不执着心灵和物质的人，内心可以得到真正的安宁，而不受外在的影响。
11. All desires have in them little pleasant taste but rather much potential suffering.
所有的欲望，只有小小的甜味，而却隐藏着相当多的苦头。
12. The sensible man is not influenced by what other people think.
明智的人不为别人的想法所影响。
13. Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
变化和无常是生命的特徵。
14. Let him be cordial in his ways and refined in conduct ; thereby full of joy he will make an end of ill.
待人热诚，举止文雅，只要每天充满着喜悦，苦恼就会消失得无影?。
15. He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred, being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred.
为了追求快乐，而把快乐建筑在别人的痛苦上，便会受到怨恨的困扰，而无法摆脱怨恨。
16. Look at every one equally, irrespective of rich or poor, noble or of low caste.
平等地对待每一个人，而不论其贫富或贵贱。
17. Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
不嫉妒不贪婪没有私慾，在任何情况下，内心都持有那份宁静，这就是高尚!
18. He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin.
当一个人品嚐到孤独与恬静的美味时，便不会产生恐惧的心理和犯罪的行为。
19. The cause of suffering is selfish desire, whether it is the desire for pleasure, desire for revenge, or simply desire for a long life.
痛苦的根源来自私慾，无论企求快乐报复，或只企求长寿，都会导致痛苦。
20. By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
读书可以使我门的思想充实，谈话使其更臻完美。
21. pain past is pleasure
过去的痛苦即快乐。
22. All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事必先难后易。
23. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿，无事不成。
24. Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
成功的秘诀就是四个简单的字：多一点点。
25. The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底
26. None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
27. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，梦颐呛廖薹惧，满心愉悦地把握命?- 尼克松
28. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金