愛的格言

東年選譯 

Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire:

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.

我們是同一樹枝上的綠葉，同一大海裡的水滴，同一花園中的花朵。 

Albert Einstein:

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

萬有引力，不是人相愛的動力。 

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

你究竟可能如何，就化學和物理作用，去說明初戀這樣重要的生物現象? 

Amy Bloom:

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

初看之下，愛很容易理解；當兩個人已經為了一生互相對看，就會發生奇蹟 。

Amy Tan:

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

我就像一顆流星，最後在一個可愛的星宿區中，流落在她緊鄰的處所；我們將永遠在這天堂閃耀。 

Alfred Adler:

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited.

我們只關心在實在的愛、真誠的婚姻，獲得堅定不移的承諾；如果男男女女打算逃避，他們就不會集中心力做這事。對於生命中如此嚴肅和重要的工作，我們不安排這樣的逃避；我們不能愛得有限。 

Allan K. Chalmers:

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

獲得幸福的基本要點在於：有事可做、可愛、可期待。 

Ambrose Bierce:

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

愛是一時的精神錯亂，可用婚姻醫治。 

Anais Nin:

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.愛不會自然消逝。愛的消逝，因為我們沒加以維持，因為我們的輕率疏忽、犯錯和背叛，因為疾病和傷殘，因為疲倦消沉、畏縮和敗壞。 

Ann Landers:

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

如果你生活中有愛，它可以補足你很多缺乏；如果你生活中沒有愛，無論你有再多的東西，還是不足的。 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

愛不建立在彼此的凝視中，是在兩個人一起觀望的同方向。 

Barbara De Angelis:

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

愛是你在每個重要關頭所做的選擇。 

Bertrand Russell:

Three passions have governed my life:

The longings for love, the search for knowledge,

And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

三種熱情主宰我的生活：愛的渴望、知識的探索，以及深切同情受苦的人。 

Bible/ Corinthians 13:4-8：

Love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.

It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

愛，是耐心、親切。

愛，是不忌妒、不自大傲慢、不粗魯淫亂，不自私自利、不輕易發怒、不記他人錯。

愛，不以罪行為樂，欣喜真理。

愛，總是保護，總是信任，總是希望，總是堅持不懈。

愛，永不止息。 

C.S. Lewis:

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

我們喜歡知道自己不是孤單的，所以失去愛的時候會感到很痛苦。 

Carl Jung:

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking.

在愛統轄的領域，不會有權力的要求；在權力支配的領域，不會有愛。 

Carter Heyward:

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

愛，和真理、美麗一樣，是實在的。愛，基本上不是可愛的感覺；實際上不是取決於感情、愛慕和吸引。

愛，是積極行動、有效的，和朋友以及敵人建立互利互助的關係。 

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve:

Tell me who admires and loves you,

And I will tell you who you are.

告訴我什麼人欣賞你、愛你，我就可能說明你是什麼樣的人。 

Chaucer:

Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men.

愛和任何精靈不受約束，女性天性喜愛自由，而不是奴隸般的被壓迫；男性也一樣。 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8：

For everything there is a season,

And a time for every matter under heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal;

A time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to throw away;

A time to tear, and a time to sew;

A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate,

A time for war, and a time for peace.

凡事都有季節，天下事務都有定時；

生有時，死有時；栽種有時，收穫有時； 

屠殺有時，治癒有時；毀壞有時，建造有時； 

哭泣有時，嘻笑有時．哀悼有時，歡舞有時；

拋擲石頭有時，堆聚石頭有時；相互擁抱有時，避免擁抱有時； 

追求有時，失落有時；保持有時，捨棄有時； 

撕裂有時，縫補有時；靜默有時、談論有時． 

愛有時，恨有時；

爭戰有時，和平有時。  

Edna St. Vincent Millay:

I love humanity but I hate people.

我愛人性但是恨人。 

Elie Wiesel:

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.

And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

愛的反面不是仇恨，藝術的反面不是醜惡，誠信的反面不是邪說，生命的反面不是死亡；它們的反面是冷漠。 

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

對於生命的影響，友誼比愛更深。愛有感情糾纏而沉迷的風險，友情只有分享。 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

All love that has not friendship for its base,Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

不具友情的愛，就像在沙地蓋大廈。 

Emily Dickinson:

Love—is anterior to Life—

Posterior—to Death—

Initial of Creation, and

The Exponent of Earth—

愛，在生命的前端，死亡的後方；在開天闢地的初始，是大地的代言。 

Erich Fromm:

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."

Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."

Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

幼稚的愛，採行這樣的原則：我愛，因為我被愛。

成熟的的愛，採行這樣的原則：我被愛，因為我愛。

不成熟的愛說：我愛你，因為我需要你。

成熟的愛說：我需要你，因為我愛你。 

Felix Adler:

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

彼此包涵，相互滋潤；以這樣的形成，愛是兩種天性的擴展。 

Friedrich Nietzsche:

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

不幸福的婚姻，不因為欠缺愛，而是欠缺友誼。 

George MacDonald:

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

被信賴比被愛較可敬。 

HH the Dalai Lama:

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

當我們給別人愛和善意感覺，不但能使別人感受到愛和關心，也有助於我們成長內在的幸福和寧靜。 

Henry Wadsworth:

Longfellow

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

如果我不值得求愛，我一定不值得擁有這愛。 

Ingrid Bergman:

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

接吻是大自然設好的可愛詭計，它阻止多餘的話語。 

Jimi Hendrix:

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

當愛的力量戰勝力量的愛，世界才可能認識和平。 

John Lennon:

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

愛是諾言，是紀念品，一旦託付，永不忘記，永不讓它消失。 

Katharine Hepburn:

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

有時候我會納悶，男人和女人是否確實互相適合。

也許他們應該隔壁鄰居，僅僅偶而探望。 

Mark Twain:

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

愛好像發生得很快，然而它是一切成長中最緩慢的。很少有男人或女人真正體驗到完美的愛，直到他們結婚了四分之一世紀。 

Mary Parrish:

To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

對於情侶而言，瞬間會是無限的漫長；時鐘的滴答聲，可以是永恆。 

Mitsugi Saotome:

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life?

如果你在這宇宙中獨自一人，沒有別人可談，可分享這些恆星之美，一起笑，一起感動；那，你的生活目的會是什麼? 

Mother Teresa:

So, spread your love everywhere you go.

所以…到處散佈你的愛吧。 

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

甚至於以穩定和逐漸過程產生的恨，也有可能轉化為愛，如果在交替間原本的敵意沒一再的新加刺激產生阻礙。 

Paul Tillich:

The first duty of love is to listen.

愛的最基本責任，是專心的聽。 

Pearl Bailey:

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

人世生活，實際需要的不是規劃作業，而是更多的愛。

Pearl S. Buck:

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

我愛他人，我愛我的家庭、孩子…但是，我內心有我獨處的地方，我在那裡恢復我的活力，使我的生活不會枯燥乏味。 

Robert Frost:

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. 地球是適合愛的地方，我不知道哪裡有更合適的。 

Robert Fulghum:

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

我認為，想像力比知識有用，神話比歷史能說服，夢比實情有力，希望總是比經驗有效，笑是悲痛的治療，愛比死強勁。 

Saint Francis de Sales:

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving.

你以說話學習說話，以學習熟悉學習，以跑步練習跑步，以作業精練工作；恰恰相同，你以愛學習愛。 

Sir Arthur Pinero:

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

愛者永遠不老；他們可能老死，但是死得年輕。 

Song of Solomon:

This is my beloved and this is my friend.

這是我的愛人，而這是我的朋友。 

Spanish proverb:

Where there is love, there is pain.

愛和煩惱同在。 

Søren Kierkegaard:

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

愛不能改變被愛，它改變自己。 

Ursula LeGuin:

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new.

愛，不是呆坐著像石塊，必須裝做麵包那樣，隨時改造，新做。 

Victor Hugo:

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

生命是美麗的花朵；因此，愛是甘美的甜蜜。 

Willa Cather:

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

有偉大愛的地方，總是會有奇蹟發生。 

William Shakespeare:

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

The more I have, for both are infinite.

我慷慨像大海那樣寬廣，我的愛有那樣深；我給你越多我自己擁有的也越多，因為兩者都是無限大的。 

Zora Neale Hurston:

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.我知道了，愛像唱歌；雖然不可能讓同伴相當感動，但是，人人可能充分滿足自己。