PURPOSE

目標
The two greatest days in a person's life are the day he was born and the day he finds out why he was born.

一個人一生中有兩個大日子，一個是他出生的日子，另一個是他找到出生原因的日子。
All who are ignorant of the purpose for which they live are fools and madmen.

John Calvin

一切忽視目標的人，活得就像個笨人及瘋子。
Here is what frightens me: to see the sense of this life dissipated; to see the reason for our existence disappear.  That is what is intolerable.  Man cannot live without meaning.

Albert Camus

令我戰兢的是：看見生命意義的消失；看見存在理由的消失。這是難以容忍的。人無法過著沒有意義的生活。
The man without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.

Thomas Carlyle

人闕如目標就像船沒有船舵。
What makes life dreary is absence of motive.   What makes life complicated is multiplicity of motive.  What makes life victorious is singleness of motive.

George Eliot

沒有動機讓生命變得沈悶。多項動機讓生命變得複雜。而單一的動機讓生命得勝有餘。
Those who have a 'why' to live can hear with almost any 'how'.

Victor E.Frankl

那些常問「為何」而活的大都能聽到活著的方法。
You must have an aim in life if you want to make a hit.

Nora Grey

如果你想達到目標，那你的生活就必須有個目標。
God does nothing in time which he did not design to do from eternity.

William Law

上帝不會做那些不永生計畫中的事情。
If a man has a why for his life he can bear with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

如果一個人對生命有個「為什麼」的問題，他就能得到生活的方法。
Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.

Philip Sidney

那謝瞄準中午太陽的人，雖然可以確定永不會射中目標，但他一定會射得比瞄準小樹叢的人高。
Spiritual life depends on the purposes we cherish.

C. H. Spurgeon

我們的靈命取決於我們心懷的目標。
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

唯一真正的幸福來自我們為目標而活。
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

C. S. Lewis

堅強的生活來自有力的目標。
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

再沒有比穩定的目標更有益於平靜心靈 - 那是能讓心靈聚精會神之處。
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

許多人對真正幸福的原因有個錯誤的觀念。那不是藉著自我滿足得到的，而是藉著忠於一個有價值的目標。
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3

魔鬼同樣能引用聖經佐證牠的目標。
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

Bhagavad Gita

就像一個人可以從滿溢水池的任何一邊飲水，技巧的神學家同樣可以配合自己的目標從不同方式解釋聖經。
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

成功的目標在於目標不變。
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

明確的目標，就像馬的遮掩罩，無可避免的會讓人的眼光變得狹隘。
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

忘記目標是愚蠢最普通的表現。
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but real minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

偉大心靈擁有目標，其他人只有希望。狹小心靈被不幸生活馴服及壓制；真實的心靈卻能從其中脫穎而出。
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

James R. Angell

教育主要目標不再教你賺得麵包，而是讓你甘之如飴。
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tyron Edwards

思想導致目標；目標產生行動；行動形成習慣；習慣決定品格：品格決定我們的前途。
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

就我所能明白的，人們存在的唯一目標就是在黑暗人群中點燃生命意義之光。
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

不妨訂立目標，只要你不讓它阻擋你兜有趣的迂迴路。
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide waht you want.

Ben Stein

想在人生中有所獲，第一步就是：弄清楚自己想要的是甚麼。