And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much.
這一切都是因為我想在來哈佛之前把事情做好,所以非常感謝你們!
You don't know what motivation you were for me, thank you.
你們不知道你們給了我多大的動力,謝謝!
I'm even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy.
我甚至能更驕傲地來和各位分享一個基本的真理。作為哈佛的畢業生你也未必知道,除非你上過Nagy教授的課程,知道古希臘英雄人物。
Professor Nagy as we were coming in this morning said "Please Ms. Winfrey, walk decisively."
在今天早上來的路上,Nagy教授說:“溫福瑞女士,請堅決地向前走。”
I shall walk decisively. This is what I want to share. It doesn't matter how far you might rise.
我應該堅決地向前走。這就是我想分享的。無論你已經達到怎樣的成就。
At some points you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar.
在某個節點,你就是會跌倒,因為如果你一直不斷的在做我們每個人做的事:不斷設定更高的目標。
If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall.
如果你一直不斷把你自己推向更高的目標,你將在某一點上落下,不必說伊卡洛斯的神話,連概率都能預測到你會跌倒。
And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure.
當你真的跌倒時,我想讓你知道,并請記住:“世間并不存在失敗。
Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you're down there in the hole, it looks like failure.
那不過是生活想讓我們換個方向走走罷了,現在當你在人生谷底時,那看起來像是失敗。”
So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.
在過去的一年里,這些話支撐著我自己。
And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while.
當你到了人生谷底,到那時候,你可以難過一段時間。
Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here's the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
給自己時間去哀悼你認為你可能失去的一切,但關鍵在于:從每個失敗和遭遇中學習,特別是你的每個錯誤,因為這些都會教會并迫使你成為真正的自己。
And then figure out what is the next right move.
然后想想接下來怎么做。
And the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go.
生活的重點在于建立內在道德、情感的定位系統,它能為你指路。
Because now and forever more when you Google yourself your search results will read "Harvard, 2013".
因為現在或將來當你在谷歌上搜索你自己,結果會是“哈佛2013畢業生”。