改變自己?

Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."

(試譯:十八世紀大文豪Samuel Johnson有以下觀察:「滿足的泉源一定是來思維的,那些對人性認知很少的人,想透過改變自己的性情去尋找快樂,是流浪費了人生,這不但白費氣力,沒有結果,且為自己在原本的悲傷之上徒添多一份悲傷。」)

Citied in 'Covey, Stephen R. 2004. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.'

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