Life is never just being.
生活不仅仅是存在。
It is becoming a relentless , flowing on.
它是一种持续流动的状态。
Our parents live on through us , and we will live on through our children .
The institutions we build endure , and we will endure through them .
我们建造的机构持续存在，我们则通过它们的持续存在而持续存在。
The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death .
我们热爱的美好不会因为死亡而黯淡。
Our flesh may perish , our hands will wither ,
But that which they created in beauty and goodness and truth lives for all time to come.
我们的肉体会消亡，我们的双手会枯萎。
但是我们以美好、善意和真理创作的事物会永恒战胜时间而存在。
Don't spend and waste your life accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
不要浪费你的时间在积累那些最终只会化为尘土的物质上。
Pursuit not so much the material as the ideal.
For ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.
与其追求物质不如追求理想。因为，只有理想才赋予生活以意义，因为只有理想才具有恒久的价值。
把alone去掉之后，比较方便理解：不要像追求理想一样努力地追求物质，因为理想本身足以让生命有意义，而且理想有永恒的价值。
