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The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. Forlifeis paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of Old put it this way:" A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open."紫金香.G3iQu8ik!BP._

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生活的艺术是要懂得何时紧紧抓住，何时学会放弃。因为人生就是一对矛盾，它促使我们牢牢抓住人生的很多赐予，但同时又注定了我们对这些给予最终的放弃。老一辈犹太学者是这样说的：人来到这个世界的时候拳头是紧握的，而当离开的时候，手却是松开的。紫金香:] yv kOT

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Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.紫金香lns!`V8X S X#j

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当然，我们应该仅仅抓住生活，因为生活是神奇的，是充满着美的——上帝创造的大地的每一个空间都充斥着至美。我们都知道这点，但我们却常常在回首往事之时才明白这个道理，然后突然意识到逝去的时光已经一去不复返了。

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 We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.紫金香;Yuj^ `0IY.Qz%J%N`

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This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours.

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学会（珍爱美好的事物）是不容易做到的。尤其是我们年轻时，认为世界是由我们掌握的，只要我们自己满腔热情，全力以赴的去追求，我们想要的东西就能够——不，是一定能够得到。紫金香'[ N!mZs$i4e i

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But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.紫金香:I3_N
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At every stage of life we sustain losses­—and grow in the process……And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be.紫金香LQHdt6gx;V

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随着我们的成长，生活使我们不得不面对现实，而第二种真理逐渐被我们所感知，所理解。紫金香pw~|^%k

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最终，正如松手和握拳的比喻那样：我们自己也得走向不可抗拒的死亡，失去了原有的自我，失去了以往的或梦想过的一切。

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The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life’s gifts are precious--but we are too heedless of them.紫金香n;vM4Na

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我们在阅历中所积累起来的洞察力就像我们的经历本身一样的平凡：（这一句感觉不是很好，有没有高手指点下？）生活的赐予是可贵的，可是我们却常常忽视了它们的存在。

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生命中有太多似非而是的矛盾，以下是第一种矛盾给我们的启迪：不要过于忙碌而忽略领悟生命的神奇，失掉对生命的敬畏。在破晓时分怀抱虔诚心情迎接每一天，拥抱每一个时辰，把握好黄金般的每一分钟。紫金香 PZd6d Z

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Hold fast to life... but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.紫金香@'j;Esm!~W

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紧紧抓住生命……但是不要过于执着而不懂得放手。这是生命之道的另一个层面，矛盾的另一极：我们必须接受失去，并且学会放弃。紫金香$z9[ `T,x{L:j%Q

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Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on.

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生命决不只是一个静止的存在，它是变化的，是向前无情流动的过程。父母因为有了我们生命得以继续延续，我们的生命也将在子孙后代身上得以繁衍生息。我们所建立的风俗相传至今，并将通过后代世代相传.我们所塑造的美不会因死亡而暗淡。我们的肉体会消亡，我们的双手也会枯竭。但是，它们在真善美中所创造的一切将会永世长存。

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'^)UaH,i1[(qM0Don't spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.

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Vg3oY9^-eC-c0不要把生命浪费在积累物质上，那些东西最终只能变成尘埃。与其追求物质不如追求理想，因为只有理想才能赋予生命以意义，才具有永存的价值。紫金香Hm:vh)m

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