Fencing 543 - 擊劍ㄛ四三

1982年諾貝爾文學獎得主馬奎斯（Gabriel García Márquez）的名言與大家共勉

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

- Roy T. Bennett

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.

- Dr. Debasish Mridha

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

- Martha Washington

A mother is the truest friend we have. When trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irvin

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

今天分享的是出自於曼德拉的自傳漫漫自由路（Long Walk to Freedom）。

納爾遜·曼德拉（Nelson Mandela,1918-2013）是南非著名的革命家、政治家、慈善家，被視為南非的國父、「最偉大的南非人」，並於1993年獲得了諾貝爾和平獎。他在1994年至1999年間擔任南非總統，致力於廢除種族隔離制度與消除貧困不公。

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

- Brian Tracy

One day a rich father took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, "how was the trip?"

一天，一位富有的父親帶著他的小兒子去鄉下旅行，打算讓他見識一下窮人的生活。他們在一戶非常貧窮人家的農場裡住了一天一夜。旅行回來之後，父親問兒子：“你覺得這次旅行怎樣?”

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. - Henri Frederic Amiel

生命短暫，而我們永遠沒有太多時間去歡喜與我們一起走過黑暗旅程的人們的心。噢！愛要儘快，仁慈要及時！

安潔莉娜裘莉（Angelina Jolie）

「大膽作選擇，即便犯了錯。這些東西累積都成了現在的你。」

Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life,

while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.

In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort.

冠軍就是在站不起來時，卻站起來的那一個

The greatest distance in this world is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I love you.

-Rabindranath Tagore