“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.” -- Anonymous, incognizant Buddhist
“感到高兴不是因为一切都完美, 而是因为你故意把眼光放远一些, 超越不完美之处.” -- 无名洋人, 无意中的佛家
“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.” -- H.L. Mencken, incognizant Buddhist
“我们在此, 时为现时; 此外人类的知识都是空谈.” -- H.L. 门肯, 无意中的佛家
“Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.” -- Arthur Erickson, incognizant Buddhist
“为了乔装内在的空虚, 幻景是必要的.” Arthur Erickson (建筑师) -- 无意中的佛家
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” -- Chief Seattle, incognizant Buddhist
“众生的网罗不是人类织造的. 我们只不过是其中的一缕. 对众生的待遇就是对自己的待遇. 万物相缚. 万物相联.” -- 西雅图酋长, 无意中的佛家
“We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.” -- M. Scott Peck, incognizant Buddhist
“我们的心灵容不下别人, 除非先把自己倒空. 只有在空虚中才能全心全意听取别人.” -- M.斯科特·派克, 无意中的佛家
“Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.” -- Matthew Greene, incognizant Buddhist
“贪欲是心的括约肌” -- Matthew Greene, 马修·格林, 无意中的佛家
“He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“不是他拥有财富; 是财富拥有他.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“平静安心者比编写大作者还明智.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“镇压初次的欲望容易; 满足随后的难.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of things.” -- Epictetus, incognizant Buddhist
“事物不打扰人, 人被自己的观点所打扰.” -- 埃皮克提图, 无意中的佛家
“Our necessities never equal our wants.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“我们需要的从来跟不上我们想要的.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -- William James, incognizant Buddhist
“我这一代最伟大的发现是: 我们能改变思想状态, 就能改变生活状态.” -- 威廉.詹姆斯, 无意中的佛家
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“预防恶习容易; 消除恶习难.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“Everything is and is not, for everything is fluid, is constantly changing, constantly coming into being and passing away.” -- Heraclitus, incognizant Buddhist/Taoist
“万物既存在又不存在, 因为都有流体性, 万物随时在变化, 老在形成, 老在过去.” -- 赫拉克利特, 无意中的佛家/道家
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“金钱从来没让人感到满足,也不会让人感到满足,因为它的本质没有产生满足感的. 人越有钱越感到不够用.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“光凭着信仰跟从等于盲目跟从.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Confucianist/Taoist/Buddhist (the Middle Path)
“法令过分宽容则少有人守法; 过分严厉则少有人执行.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的孺/道/佛家 (都提倡“中庸”)
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“我们生来都无知识, 可得相当努力才能保持迷惑.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“It is only when the rich get sick that they fully realize the impotence of wealth.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“富人生病时才充分感到财富的无能.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“When you're finished changing, you're finished.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Taoist/Buddhist
“人变化完了, 人也完了.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的道家/佛家
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” -- Benjamin Franklin, incognizant Buddhist
“拥有财富不算富有, 欣赏拥有的才算富有.” -- 本杰明·富兰克林, 无意中的佛家
“Let us try what love can do to mend this broken world.”
– Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, incognizant Buddhist
“咱们试试看,能不能用爱情来修补这个破损的世界.” -- 拉比 沙龙·可来因宝恩, 无意中的佛家
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius, incognizant Buddhist
“过幸福日子所需要的其实很少。条件都是内在的,都是思维方式.” -- 馬爾庫斯·奧列里烏斯, 无意中的佛家
“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.” --Thomas Jefferson, incognizant Buddhist
“人一形成理論, 他想像之中的東西都具有支持他那理論的特色.” -- 傑佛逊, 無意中的佛家
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” -- Cheri Huber, incognizant Buddhist
“痛是不可避免的. 苦是可選擇性的.” -- 雪麗·休伯 , 無意中的佛家
“Forever is composed of nows.” -- Emily Dickinson, incognizant Buddhist
“永恒就是由当今构成的.” -- 艾米莉·迪金森, 无意中的佛家
“Je pense donc je suis.” [I think, therefore I exist.] -- René Descartes, incognizant Buddhist
“我思故我在” -- 笛卡尔, 无意中的佛家
“Je pense que je pense, donc je pense que je suis.” -- René Descartes, reconsidered
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” -- Karen Kaiser Clark, incognizant Buddhist
“生命就是变化. 成长与否由你决定. 明智地选择吧.” -- 凯伦·凯莎·克拉克, 无意中的佛家
“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.” -- Frank Zappa, incognizant Buddhist
“信息不等于知识,知识不等于智慧,智慧不等于真理,真理不等于美,美不等于爱.” -- 法兰克·砸帕, 无意中的佛家
“The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.” -- Moliere (1622-1673), incognizant Buddhist
“脑海对身体的影响可大, 疾病的起源多在此.” -- 莫里哀, 无意中的佛家
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” -- Democritus (460?-370? BC), incognizant Buddhist
“幸福感不存在于财产, 不存在于黄金, 幸福感存在于灵魂.” -- 德谟克利特, 无意中的佛家
“Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.” -- Joan Borysenko, incognizant Buddhist
“饶恕...等于清结旧帐, 好让我们经历一个没有昨日污染的今天.” -- 琼恩·波利森科, 无意中的佛家
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -- Albert Camus, incognizant Buddhist
“在严冬中, 我终于发现本身内藏着一个无敌的夏天.” -- 加缪, 无意中的佛家
“For it is in giving we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.” -- Saint Francis of Assisi, incognizant Buddhist
“在施与中我们获得取; 在宽容中我们被宽恕; 在舍己中我们进入永生.” -- 阿西西的圣方济, 无意中的佛家