Live A Life That Matters 有意义的人生 Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end. 不管你是否有心理准备与否，人生总有尽头。 There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. 当时刻到来，你不再有分分秒秒也没有晨昏昼夜， All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. 你所收集的事物，想珍藏或己遗忘的，终将传让他人。 Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. 无论拥有财富、名望及权力都将无用， It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. 无论欠人或被欠都已不再重要， Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear. 妒忌、怨恨、挫折与猜忌终将消失。 So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire. 同样的，你拥有的希望、抱负、计画及执行的细节都将终止， The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. 曾经看来是重要的输赢大事也都将随之褪色消失， It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end. 从何处而来或在何处留下足迹，到头来己不重要。 It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant 你是否美丽动人或明艳照人并不重要， Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant. 甚至性别及肤色也将没有关系。 So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured? 什麽事情是重要的？人的价值要如何衡量？ What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; 重要的不是购买什麽，而是建造什麽； not what you got, but what you gave. 不是得到什麽，而是给了什麽。 What will matter is not your success, but your significance. 重要的不是自己的成功，而是做了那些有意义的事。 What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. 重要的不是自己学到什麽，而是教导了别人什麽。 What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. 重要的是对每件事使尽全力、心怀悲悯、充满勇气、或奉献牺牲，让其他人因此更富裕、 更有能力或受到鼓舞。 What will matter is not your competence, but your character. 重要的不是能力，而是优良的品格。 What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone. 重要的不是认识多少人，而是走後能让多少人深深怀念。 What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you. 重要的不是留下声名，而是在爱您的人心中留有多少回忆。 What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what 重要的是能留在人们记忆中的时间有多长，是什麽样的作为使人难以忘怀。. Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. 快乐的生活并非来自偶然， It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. 也非命中注定，而是自己一连串的选择。 While you meet something beautiful, the first thing you should do is to share it with your friends anywhere. 当你遇见美好的事物时所要做的第一件事，就是把它分享给你四周的人。 So that these beautiful things will be able to spread out literally around the world. 才能让这些美好的事物确确实实的散播到世界各角落 -- 子女应冠父母双姓部落格: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ruby-123 我只是结婚，不是嫁! (小孩双姓，不拿夫家聘金/饼钱，不取用住公婆，除夕夜陪自己爸妈过，两性平等平权！) 现在是女男可以(从姓)平等的时代，小孩从父母双姓，除夕夜，孝顺自己父母等等，都是 很基本的权益，没甚麽好女男不平等的！ <(￣︶￣)> 英、法、德、美、韩、大陆、阿根廷等国，有越来越多人使用双姓; 布裘恋、妮可基嫚、 茱蒂福斯特的小孩也双姓！ v(￣︶￣)y http://tinyurl.com/47arho ※ 编辑: ami65 来自: 218.168.189.151 (07/07 00:19)