I’d tell men and women in their mid-twenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.

我会告诉二十多岁的人不要满足于一份工作、一个职业甚至一个事业。寻找一个使命。即使你不知道那意味着什么，也要寻找它。如果你在追随你的使命，疲劳会更容易忍受，失望会成为燃料，高潮会是你从未感受过的。

So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

所以1962年那天早上我告诉自己：让其他人都说你的想法疯狂吧……继续前进。不要停下来。甚至不要想停下来，直到你到达那里，也不要过多考虑“那里”是哪里。无论发生什么，都不要停下来。

The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.

找出你对某人感觉的最简单方法。说再见。

Life is growth. You grow or you die.

生命就是成长。你要么成长，要么死亡。

The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.

I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say, I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.

我想建立一些属于自己的东西，一些我可以指着说，这是我做的。这是我看到的唯一让生活有意义的方式。

The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

我从田径中学到的竞争艺术就是忘记的艺术，我现在提醒自己这一点。你必须忘记你的极限，你必须忘记你的疑虑、你的痛苦、你的过去。

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

不要告诉别人怎么做，告诉他们做什么，让他们用结果给你惊喜。

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.

懦夫从不启程，弱者死于路中，只剩我们前行。

Just do it.

只管去做吧。