At the end of every episode of "The Green Hope", it shows quotations from famous people from around the world. When my Great Auntie lent the series to me (back in 2000), the writing was very small and blurry. It wasn't until I got the official TVBI version that I could read the quotations.
Quotations
第一集
所有幸福的家庭,都大同小異,但每個不幸的家庭,卻自有其不幸處。
Episode 1
All happy families resemble one another, Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- 托爾斯泰 Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
第二集
「希望」猶如甦醒著的「夢」。
Episode 2
Hope is a waking dream.
- 亞里斯多德 Aristotle (公元前384-322 BC)
第三集
人類的歷史是耐心等待著被侮辱者的勝利。
Episode 3
Man's history is waiting in patience for the triumph of the insulted man.
- 泰戈爾 Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
第四集
人類擁有一強而有力的武器,叫作歡笑。
Episode 4
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- 馬克吐溫 Mark Twain (1835-1910)
第五集
濯足清流,抽足再入,已非前水。
Episode 5
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- 赫拉克利圖斯 Heraclitus (公元前544-483 BC)
第六集
「我們瀟瀟的樹葉都有聲音回答那風雨。但,你是誰呢,那樣的沉 默?」「我只不過是一朵花。」
Episode 6
"We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent?" "I am a mere flower."
- 泰戈爾 Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
第七集
我說不出這心為甚麼那樣默默地頹喪著。是為了它那不曾要求,不 曾知道,不曾記得的小小的需要。
Episode 7
I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.
- 泰戈爾 Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
第八集
知道為何而活,就知道怎樣熬下去。
Episode 8
A person who knows why to live can bear anyhow to live.
- 尼采 Fredrick W. Nietzsche (1844-1900)
第九集
我們很少想到自己所有的,卻總是想到自己所沒有的。
Episode 9
We seldom think what we have, but always think what we have not.
- 叔本華 Schopenhauer, Arthor (1788-1860)
第十集
不經一番寒徹骨,怎得梅花撲鼻香?
Episode 10
Without going through the polish by windy chill, how could one feel the fragrance of plum flowers?
- 黃檗禪師(唐) Zen Master Huang Bo (Tang Dynasty)
第十一集
羞愧 -- 只有人類這種動物會,或要。
Episode 11
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
- 馬克吐溫 Mark Twain (1835-1910)
第十二集
朋友才能容忍朋友的弱點。
Episode 12
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
- 莎士比亞 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
第十三集
幾乎所有人都可以忍受不幸,但要試出一個人的真品格,給他權力。
Episode 13
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- 林肯 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
第十四集
遇亨通的日子,你當喜樂;遭患難的日子,你當思考。
Episode 14
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
-《傳道書》第七章第十四節 Ecclesiastes 7:14
第十五集
「你離我有多遠呢,果實呀?」
「我藏在你心裡呢,花呀。」
Episode 15
"How far are you from me, O Fruit?"
"I am hidden in your heart, O Flower."
- 泰戈爾 Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
第十六集
我的榮譽,並非由他人之見,而是由我自己的心所構成。
Episode 16
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
- 柯立芝 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1796-1834)
第十七集
好好渡過的一天能得安眠,好好運用的一生能得安息。
Episode 17
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
- 達芬奇 Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
第十八集
如果只想快樂,是很容易實現的;但想比別人快樂,則難,因我們 總以為別人的快樂較他們所有的多。
Episode 18
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
- 孟德斯鳩 Montesquieu (1689-1755)
第十九集
愛乃愛的回報。
Episode 19
Love is love's reward.
- 英國詩人德萊敦 John Dryden (1631-1700)
第二十集
我思故我在。
Episode 20
I think; therefore I am.
- 笛卡兒 Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
第二十一集
忍耐是苦澀的,但其果實是甜美的。
Episode 21
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- 阿里斯多德 Aristotle (公元前 384BC-322BC)
第二十二集
掌握我們命運的並非星宿,而是我們自己。
Episode 22
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- 莎士比亞 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
第二十三集
只管面向陽光,那你就看不到影子。
Episode 23
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- 海倫凱勒 Helen Keller (1880-1957)
第二十四集
知識是只好沒壞的,無知是只壞沒好的。
Episode 24
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- 蘇格拉底 Socrates (公元前 470-399 BC)
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