Quora阅读：生活中哪些话让你思考最多？

Which sentences have made you think the most in your life?
生活中哪些话让你思考最多？
 
 
获得132.6k好评的回答@Eva Gutierrez：
 
 
I read this quote about six years ago when I was in college. It took me five years to figure out what it really meant.
大约六年前我读大学时思考这句话，花了五年时间才弄明白它到底意味着什么。
 
Like 90% of my peers, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life or who I wanted to become. At the exact same time Instagram was becoming really big. I started following bloggers and world travelers who seemed to have it all together. I can still feel the sting that pinged my heart when I would see that these globe trotters were younger than me and seemed to have it all figured out.
就像我的90%个同龄人一样，我不知道我想度过一生，我想做什么。当时Instagram（照片共享应用程序）真是太热了，我开始关注博客和环球旅行者，他似乎很明白。我仍能感觉到，知道他们比我还年轻，似乎有一种刺痛我的心的感觉。
 
How had they figured it out? What had they been given that I hadn’t?
他们怎么弄明白的？他们拥有什么我所没有的？
For years I asked these questions. I would wonder what the difference between them and I were. It took me until one year ago to realize what the difference was between these “successful” millennials and myself.
这些问题我思考了几年。我就想知道他们和我有什么区别，直到一年前我才弄明白这些“成功”的千禧一代和我之间的区别。
They had taken action. They had done something at some point that had catalyzed them to the lifestyle they were now living. While I had been spending years wondering what they had been given that allowed them to create successful blogs and travel the world they had been taking the action and finding out how to create successful blogs and travel the world.
 
他们采取了行动。他们在某种程度上改变了他们的生活方式。当我花了几年的时间试图弄清楚他们是如何创建成功的博客和环游世界的，他们早就采取行动，找出如何创建成功的博客和环游世界。
 
We were both totally equal, the only thing separating us was action.
我们是完全平等的，唯一的区别就是“行动”。
All it took for me to go from unhappy college graduate working at a bar to freelancing writer was realizing that if I took things into my own hands, I would figure it out.
我从一个在酒吧工作的不快乐的大学毕业生来到自由撰稿人那里，因为我意识到如果我把所有的东西都握在手中，我就能理解它。
 
To this day, this quote has been the most powerful sentence I have ever come across. It explains everything you need to know about creating the lifestyle and career that you have always wanted.
这是我读过的最有影响力的一句话，它解释了你所需要知道的关于创造一种你一直想拥有的生活方式和职业的一切。
 
获得37.8k好评的回答@Susan Kaveny：
 
I was working in a car shop while I was in college. One Friday evening, we had just finished up there and the guys wanted to go to the bar across the side street. I wanted to go too, and I wanted to go get cleaned up first. The guy who owned the garage, Bob, said, “If they don’t like you dirty, they don’t like you clean either.”
我在大学的一家汽车店工作，刚过了一个星期五的晚上，我的朋友们想去巷子对面的酒吧，我也想去，我想先把自己身上弄干净。开修车厂的Bob说：“如果他们不喜欢你脏的样子，那他们也不会喜欢你干净的样子。”
That applies to a lot of areas of life. If they don’t like you how you are, the people in question probably just don’t like you and won’t even if you change.
如果他们不喜欢你的样子，他们可能只是不喜欢你，即使你做出了改变。
 

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