我们的生命是天赋的，我们惟有献出生命，才能得到生命。
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.


当我们是大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

错误经不起失败，但是真理却不怕失败。
Wrong cannot afford defeat but Right can.

我们把世界看错了，反说它欺骗我们。
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.


使生如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之静美。
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

瞬刻的喧声，讥笑着永恒的音乐。
The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal.


人走进喧哗的群众里去，为的是要淹没他自己的沉默的呼号。
Man goes into the noisy crowed to drown his own clamour of silence.


如果你把所有的错误都关在门外时，真理也要被关在门外面了。
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.


死文字的尘土沾着你。
用沉默去洗净你的灵魂吧。
The dust of the dead words clings to thee.
Wash thy soul with silence.

当我们以我们的充实为乐时，那末，我们便能很快乐地跟我们的果实分手 了。
When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.


脚趾乃是舍弃了其过去的手指。
Toes are the fingers that have forsaken their past.

黑暗向光明旅行，但是盲者却向死亡旅行。
Darkness travels towards light, but blindness towards death.

接触着，你许会杀害；远离着，你许会占有。
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

太阳在西方落下时，他的早晨的东方已静悄悄地站在他面前。
When the sun goes down to the West, the East of his morning stands before him in silence.


荣誉使我感到惭愧，因为我暗地里求着它。
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.