Life Is What We Make It 生活靠我们自己创造

By Orison Swett Marden

Are you dissatisfied with today’s success? It is the harvest from yesterday’s sowing. Do you dream of a golden morrow? You will reap what you are sowing today. We get out of life just what we put into it.

你对今天的成就感到不满意吗?今天的丰收源自昨日的播种。你梦想有一个金色的明天吗?你今天种下了什么，将来就会收获什么。我们从生活中获取我们所投入的。

Nature takes on our moods: she laughs with those who laugh and weeps with those who weep. If we rejoice and are glad, the very birds sing more sweetly, the woods and streams murmur our song. But if we are sad and sorrowful, a sudden gloom falls upon Nature’s face; the sun shines, but not in our hearts; the birds sing, but not to us.

大自然是受我们的情绪影响的;你笑她也笑，你哭她就哭。如果我们的心情是喜悦的，鸟儿们的歌声会分外甜美，森林和小溪也会吟唱着我们的歌儿。但如果我们本身充满忧伤，大自然就会被一层阴暗的气氛所笼罩。太阳虽然灿烂，但照不到我们的心里;鸟儿们虽然在歌唱，但与我们产生不了共鸣。

The future will be just what we make it. Our purpose will give it its character. One’s resolution is one’s prophecy. Leave all your discouraging pessimism behind. Do not prophesy evil, but good. Men of hope come to the front.

未来是我们自己创造的。我们的人生目标决定着它的性质;我们的决心是它的预言。抛开令人沮丧的悲观情绪吧!心里充满希望的人总能走在最前面的。