“不可能”只存在于蠢人的字典里。 - 每日文摘

他这两天有了意中人以后，对自己外表上的缺点，知道得不宽假地详尽，仿佛只有一套出客衣服的穷人知道上面每一个斑渍和补丁。

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"

杰夫·贝索斯

人生一世不就是为了化短暂的事物为永久的吗？要做到这一步，就须懂得如何珍视这短暂和永久。

歌德

我们都在寻找某样东西，但我们并不总是知道那是什么。有时是一个人，有时是一个地方，有时只是一种感觉。

"We are all searching for something, but we don't always know what it is. Sometimes it's a person, sometimes it's a place, and sometimes it's just a feeling."