Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this monment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest, we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
不论你处在什么地方，也不论你是什么人，无论是在此时此刻，还是在大家生命中的任何一个瞬间，有一件事对你我来讲是恰巧相同的，大家不是在休息，大家是在一次旅途中，大家的生活是一种运动，一种趋势，是向一个看不见的目的稳定而不停地进步。
We are gaining something, or losing something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing. For the mereadvance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.
每一天，大家都会取得某些东西，或者会失去某些东西。 甚至当大家的地方和大家的性格特点看着跟以前完全相似时，它们事实上仍然在变化着。由于只是时间的前进就是一种变化。对于一块荒地来讲，在1月和7月是不一样的，季节会制造差异。能力上的缺点对于孩子来讲是一种可爱的品质，但对于大人来讲就是一种幼稚的表现。
Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. it sets us forward or backward. the action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept||the other alternative.
大家做的每一件事都是朝着一个或另一个方向前进一步。 甚至 没做什么事情 这件事本身也是一种行为，它让大家前进或后退，一根刺针阴极有哪些用途和阳极有哪些用途都是一样真实的，拒绝也是一种同意||这类都是二中择一的选择。
Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single monment, the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would, there can be no pause until you come into port.
你今天比昨天更接近你的港口了吗?是的||你需要接近某一个港口或者其他港口。自从你首次被抛生活活之海，你的船连一分钟都没静止过，海是这样之深，你也不可能找到一个抛锚的地方，于是你不可能停下来，了解你到达我们的港口。
