Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
我们的生命应当物尽其用，而非固守保存。
D. H. Lawrence

An unexamined life is not worth living.
浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过。
Socrates

It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want.
生活是你自己的，想过什么样的生活，不需要别人的许可。
Roy T. Bennett

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
读书者一生中可以体验一千种人生，而从不阅读的人只能活这一次。
George R.R. Marti

The goal isn't to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.
人生的目标不是要获得永生，而是要创造永恒。
Chuck Palahniuk

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
永远记住你是独一无二的，就像其他人一样。
Margaret Mead

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
宁可在创新中失败，也不要在模仿中成功。
Herman Melville

Life is trying things to see if they work.
生活就是尝试事物，看看它们是否奏效。
Ray Bradbur

Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
要追求进步，而不是一味地寻找借口，要寻求尊重，而不是一味地博取关注。
Roy T. Bennett

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race.
如果不参加比赛，你既不会赢也不会输。
David Bowie

Humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
就算可能失败，也要继续前行，可谓是真正的人。
Ralph Ellison

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
当我们行为端正，就会无意中转化他人。
Sophie Swetchine

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
我们失败是因为我们告诉自己失败了。
Leo Tolstoy

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
没有人能真正随着时间的推移而改变， 我们只是逐渐成为更加圆满的自己。
Anne Rice

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
你首先得耐下心，才能学会有耐心。
Stanislaw J. Lec