1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
人生是不公平的，但還是好得很.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
懷疑的時候何妨為未來踏出一小步.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
人生太短，短到來不及浪費時間去恨任何一個人.
4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
不要那麼嚴肅對待自己，沒有人會這樣對自己的.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
每個月要付清你的信用卡.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
你不需要每一次都吵贏，同意那些不同的意見.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
找人一起哭，它比獨自啜泣更加療癒
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
對上帝生氣沒有關係，祂受得了.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
退休存款要從你第一次領薪水開始.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
提到巧克力，抗拒它是徒然的.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
要和你的過去和解，這樣它不會搞砸你的當下
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
讓你的孩子看到你在哭沒有關係
13. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
別拿自己的人生和他人做比較，你根本不清楚別人的經歷是怎麼一回事
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
如果一段親密關係需要保密，你根本就不應該涉入.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
一眨眼的功夫什麼都會變，但是別擔心，上帝從來不眨眼.
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
短促的人生不夠用在冗長的哀悼，要忙著過活，或忙著就死
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
若是你今天堅定不移，你就能渡過一切
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
作家寫作，如果想成為作家就寫吧
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
快樂童年永不嫌晚，但這第二次只能靠你不是靠別人.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
當你要追尋你一生所愛的時後，別把「不」作為答案
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
蠟燭都點上，床單用好樣的，穿上華麗的內衣，不要等特殊時刻才用，今天就是特別的那天.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
準備並不嫌多，但要隨遇而安.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
現在就隨興搞怪，不需要等上了年紀了才穿上紫色 (註)
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
最重要的性器官是腦袋.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
除你之外沒人能主宰你的快樂.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
把每個災難都用 "五年以後這還重要嗎?" 這句話框起來看
27. Always choose life.
永遠選擇人生
28. Forgive everyone everything.
原諒每個人每件事.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
別人怎麼看你不干你的事.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
時間會癒療幾乎每一件事，給時間多些時間.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
無論情況好或壞，它都會變的.
32. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
生病的時候你的工作不會像你的朋友般的照顧你，請保持聯絡.
33. Believe in miracles.
相信奇蹟.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
上帝愛你是因為祂就是這樣，不是因為你做了什麼或是沒做什麼.
35. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
你沒死就可以變得更堅強.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
變老就等於戰勝了另一種選項 - 夭折.
37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
你的孩子只有一個童年，讓它值得回憶
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.
讀聖經中的詩篇，那裡蘊含了人類所有的情感
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
每一天都出門，各樣奇蹟都正到處等著.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
如果我們都把自己的問題丟掉去看別人的問題的時候，我們應該會撿回自己的問題.
41. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
不用去稽核人生，現在就展現自己做最大的發揮
42. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
丟掉所有沒用、不美、或不快樂的.
43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
到頭來最重要的事是你曾經愛過
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
羨慕是浪費時間，你所需要的你都有了.
45. The best is yet to come.
最好的永遠不會來.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
不管你感覺如何，起來，打扮好、展現自己
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
深呼吸可以平靜你的神智.
48. If you don't ask, you don't get.
如果你不求問，你就得不到
49. Yield.
50. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
人生不會打上蝴蝶結，然而它仍然是一份禮物.
Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
By Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
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