1. Still I Rise — Maya Angelou(我仍将崛起)
核心:不屈、自我肯定、对抗逆境
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
你可以用言语将我射杀,
你可以用眼神将我割裂,
你可以用恨意将我摧毁,
但我仍会,如空气般,崛起。
2. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers — Emily Dickinson(希望是长着羽毛的东西)
核心:希望常驻灵魂,永不熄灭
"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
“希望”是长着羽毛的东西,
栖息在灵魂深处,
唱着无词的曲调,
永不停息。
3. Invictus — William Ernest Henley(不可征服)
核心:掌控命运、灵魂自主
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
覆盖我的黑夜,
如极地深渊般漆黑,
我感谢诸神,
赐我不可征服的灵魂。
我是我命运的主宰,
我是我灵魂的船长。
4. If — Rudyard Kipling(如果)
核心:成熟、从容、宠辱不惊
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
如果你在众人慌乱指责时仍保持清醒,
如果你在众人怀疑时仍相信自己,
也体谅他们的怀疑;
如果你能坦然面对胜利与灾难,
把这两个骗子一视同仁。
5. Dreams — Langston Hughes(梦想)
核心:紧握梦想,生命才有意义
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
紧紧抓住梦想,
因为梦想一旦消亡,
生命就如折翼之鸟,
再也无法飞翔。
6. The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost(未选择的路)
核心:选择、勇气、走自己的路
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
树林里分出两条路,而我——
我选择了人迹更少的那一条,
从此决定了我一生的道路。
7. A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(人生颂)
核心:积极行动、活在当下、创造价值
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
生命是真实的!生命是诚挚的!
坟墓并非它的终点;
你本是尘土,仍要归于尘土,
这话指的不是灵魂。
8. Desiderata — Max Ehrmann(渴望之物)
核心:平静、接纳、与世界温柔相处
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
在喧嚣与匆忙中保持平静,
记得沉默中自有安宁。
尽量不妥协,
与所有人和睦相处。