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實正直的價值觀。我認為,忠誠這一必需的原則也意味著對我們內在自我的忠誠。

成長過程中,我曾幾度叛逆,與生活中的很多基本觀念背道而馳。但是,多次叛逆後,我想象著自己圍繞內布拉斯加平原的那座山走了整整一圈,終於明白這些美德的確經得起時間的考驗。

在逆境中給予我莫大安慰的另一個原則是仁愛。這是我們必須學習的美德。生活中的我很幸運,因為我能夠樂善好施。行善者不應祈求回報,因為我們從行善中所得到的滿足感便是最好的報答。

行善,必須真心誠意。否則,任何形式的給予皆是對生命本身極大的欺騙。

仁愛與忠誠深深感動著我的生命,為我生活的每一天帶來極大的滿足。每天臨睡前,忠誠這一原則都會提醒我反省自己一天的行為,確保當日的所作所為沒有為他人帶來任何故意的傷害。

每天臨睡前,我都會努力為自己對他人造成的傷害予以彌補。這無疑是種自私的行為,因為只有這樣,每夜我才不會輾轉難眠。

橫看成嶺側成峰,人生亦是如此。無論是在倫敦、巴黎、羅馬、開羅、紐約、好萊塢,還是內布拉斯加的瓦胡鎮,我所看到的美德始終不變。

感謝兒時在內布拉斯加學到的那些傳統美德。我希望,我能永遠對我所出生的這個國家滿懷謙恭、心存感激,因為它給予了我生存的機會。

■ 心靈小語

從不同角度看待事物,你就能更輕鬆地抓住生活的精髓;而當你僅從一個角度片面地觀察世界時,就很可能會變得憤世嫉俗。

Walk Clean around the Hill

Darryl F。 Zanuck

Now that I can look back across the years from the so…called vantage point of experience in two World Wars; travel throughout a large part of the world; and contact with many of the outstanding personalities of our time; it gives me a great deal of real reassurance each day to know that way down deep I learned some fundamental values when I was a boy in a small town in Nebraska。

I have found one thing to be so very true—the virtues I learned as a boy are still fundamental virtues。 My point of view has changed; of course; over the years; and so has that of my friends; but so much of all this change of viewpoint is like a small boy gazing at a hill on the plains of Nebraska。 The hill remains the same。 The small boy only sees it from another angle as he grows up。 。 想看書來

橫看成嶺側成峰(2)

I have always tried to walk pletely around every hill I have found in existence since; so that I could get a view from every angle。 This; I think; reveals the difference between honesty and cynicism。 When you see the hill from every angle; you have a much better chance at keeping life in focu