我们在旅途中
亨利 凡 戴克
亨利凡戴克（1852-1933)，美国作家、教育家、演说家和传道士。他在本文中对人在旅途这个观点作了平凡而深刻的描述。
不论你处在什么地方，也不论你是什么人，不管是在此时此刻，还是在我们生命中的任何一个瞬间，有一件事情对你我来说是恰巧相同的：我们不是在休息，我们是在一次旅途中。我们的生活是一种运动，一种趋势，是向一个看不见的目标稳定而不停地进步。每一天我们都会赢得某些东西，或者都会失去某些东西。甚至当我们的位置和我们的性格看起来根以前完全相似时，它们事实上仍然在变化着。
我们做的每一件事情都是朝着一个或另一个方向前进一步。甚至“没有做任何事情”这件事情本身也是一种行为，它让我们前进或后退；拒绝也是一种接受——这些都是二中择一的选择。
你今天比昨天更接近你的港口了吗？是的——你必须接近某一个港口，或者其它港口。自从你第一次被抛入生活大海，你的船连一分钟都没有停止过；海是如此之深，你也不可能找到一个抛锚的地方；于是你不可能停下来，直到你到达自己的港口。
We Are on a Journey
Henry Van Dyke
Wherever you are, and whoever
you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at
this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at
rest; we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a
steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. We are gaining
something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position
and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are
changing.
Everything
that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure
to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or
backward. To decline is to accept-the other
alternative.
Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes,-
you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your
ship was first launched upon the sea of life, you have never been
still for a single moment; the sea is too deep, you could not find
an anchorage if you would; there can be no pause untill you come
into port.
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