[中文]：困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書.
[英文]：the proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
[中文]：人的正確功能是生活,而不是生存.
[出處]：jack london 傑克.倫敦(美國小說家)[英文]：i slept and dreamt that life was beauty; i woke and found that life was duty.
[中文]：夢裡見到人生無比美麗,醒時發現義務即是人生.
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[英文]：one should eat to live, not live to eat.
[中文]：人生應為生而食,不應為食而生.
[出處]：socrates 蘇格拉底
[英文]：live not to eat, but eat to live.
[中文]：不要為了吃飯活著,而要為了活著吃飯.[英文]：i eat merely to put food out of my mind.
[中文]：我吃東西只是為了不再去想食物.
[出處]：n.f.simpson 辛普森
[英文]：life lies not in living but in liking.
[中文]：生活的意義並不在於活著,而在於愛好人生.
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[英文]：the unexamined life is not worth living.
[中文]：渾渾噩噩的生活不值得過.
[出處]：socrates 蘇格拉底
[英文]：life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
[中文]：生活就像洋蔥頭:你只能一層一層地把它剝開,有時你還得流淚.
[出處]：c.sandburg 桑德堡[英文]：life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.
[中文]：生活不在於握有一手好牌,而在於把手裡的牌打好.
[出處]：j.billings 比林斯
[英文]：life is not all beer and skittles.
[中文]：人生並非只是啤酒和九柱戲. /人生並不全是吃喝玩樂.
[出處]：t.hughes 休斯(英國作家)[英文]：for man is man and master of his fate.
[中文]：人就是人,是自己命運的主人.
[出處]：a.tennyson 丁尼生
[英文]：you are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
[中文]：你並不掌管整個宇宙,但你得掌管你自己.
[出處]：a.bennett 本涅特
[英文]：there is a history in all men's lives.
[中文]：所有人的生活里都有一部歷史.
[出處]：shakespeare 莎士比亞[英文]：there's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
[中文]：宇宙中只有一芥之地你肯定可以改善,那就是你自己.
[出處]：a.huxley 赫胥黎
[英文]：the supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
[中文]：生活中最大的幸福是堅信有人愛我們.
[出處]：[法]v.hugo 雨果
[英文]：have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
[中文]：人生應該樹立目標,否則你的精力會白白浪費.
[出處]：r.peters 彼得斯[英文]：the important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
[中文]：人生重要的在於確立一個偉大的目標,並有決心使其實現.
[出處]：goethe 歌德
[英文]：none is of freedom or life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
[中文]：只有每天再度戰勝生活並奪取自由的人,才配享受生活或自由.
[出處]：[荷蘭]erasmus 伊拉斯漠[英文]：what makes life dreary is the want of motive.
[中文]：沒有了目的,生活便鬱悶無光.
[出處]：george eliot 喬治.埃略特
[英文]：don't believe that winning is really everything. it's more important to stand for something. if you don't stand for something, what do you win?
[中文]：不要認為取勝就是一切,更重要的是要有信念,倘若你沒有信念,那勝利又有什麼意義呢?
[出處]：lane kirkland 萊恩.柯克蘭[英文]：he will shoot higher who shoots at the moon than he who aims at a tree.
[中文]：瞄準月亮的人總比瞄準樹的人射得高. /目標遠大,效果必佳.
[英文]：hitch your wagon to a star.