Your ability to truly live is dependent upon your ability to ignore that counterproductive voice inside your head.

你要真正生活的能力取决于你能不能不理睬你脑袋里面那个相反的声音。

youdao

And I knew that when people were praising the picture, the little voice inside me would be whispering, "Kind of repeating yourself, don't you think?"

我知道，当人们在为它鼓掌称好时，我心里有一个小小的声音就又将开始提醒自己“又故技重施了，不是吗？”

youdao

But criticism doesn't have to come from other people. Like Steve in the story above, some teens also have an "inner critic," a voice inside that seems to find fault with everything they do.

但是批评你的人也不一定是别人，就像上一个故事中的史蒂夫那样，一些青少年会有“内在批评”，就是那种自己做的什么事情都要找茬的发自内心的声音。

youdao

answered a warm young voice from inside the house.

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Bartleby's voice came from inside.

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You need to start listening to that voice inside your head.

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Well, sometimes, that voice inside of me isn't very soft.

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But even Anne Marie seemed happy enough after a while, and if prison was my first not entirely unpleasant exile from the world, then this was my second, and not once was I rec-ognized as the man who burned down the Emily Dickinson House, et cetera, and not once did I hear that voice, the voice inside me that asked, What else?

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