[转载]我們無法選擇出生和死亡，但是我們可以選擇如何活著

    We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circamstances of our upringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide that what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either whan we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose,so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.

（附注：此文系摘錄，作者：Joseph Epstein）