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Things My Mother Taught Me ——Anonymous My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done: “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning!” My mother taught me religion: “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.” My mother taught me about time travel: “If you don’t straighten up, I...
Be Happy! “The days that make us happy make us wise.”—-John Masefield when I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it. Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here...
编者按： 有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。 —-海伦.凯勒 Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） All of us have readthrillingstories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a ...
What would you say when you are under work pressure, “stressed out and frantic” or “challenged and energized”? There is very little physiological difference between the two, says a growing contingent of experts who claim works stress has an upside. These experts believe that stress can strengthen you or tear you down. In most cases, you can choose. Gi...
Every Woman is Beautiful A little boy asked god，god,why do woman cry so easily? god said when I made woman ,she had to be special. I made her shoulder strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet, gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when anyone else gives up and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue withou...
引言： 笑有助于消化，笑能减轻压力，笑，是长寿的秘方。 No living creature can laugh except man. Trees may bleed when they are wounded, and beasts in the field will cry in pain and hunger, yet only I have the gift of laughter and it is mine to use whenever I choose. Henceforth I will cultivate the habit of laughter. I will smile and my digestion will improve; I will chuckle an...
These Things Shall Never Die–Charles Dickens The pure.the bright,the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longing after something’s lost, The spirit’s yearning cry, The striving after better hopes- These things can never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in his nee...
引言： 禀赋迥异，万物各就其位； 倘若我不能将森林背负，你也无法将坚果打破。 The mountain and thesquirrel ——Ralph Waldo Emerson The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel; And the Mountain called the Squirrel 'LittlePrig.' Bunreplied, You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And Think it...
引言： 假如我一直经商，今天可能会相当富有，但我不认为我的人生会很成功。我可能会放弃一切无形的、金钱绝对买不到的精神上的满足；这种精神上的满足常常因为人的主要生活目的是发财致富而不可企及。 In order to tell what I believe, I must briefly sketch something of my personal history. The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music....
A Greek to Remember Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C.,who established the philosophy of cynicism.He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern,peering around as if he were looking for something.When auestioned about his odd behavior,he would reply,”I am searching for an honest man.” Diogenes held that the good ma...
Types of Friends A Faraway Friend is someone you grew up with or went to school with or lived in the same town as until one of you moved away. Without a Faraway Friend, you would never get any mail addressed in handwriting. A Faraway Friend calls late at night, invites you to her wedding, always says she is coming to visit but rarely shows up. An actual visit from a Farawa...
Do You Know Women 1.Women never understand why men love toys. Menunderstandt hat they wouldn ’t need toys if women had an〃on／off〃switch. 女人永远不会明白男人为什么喜欢玩具。男人认为,如果女人有开关,他们就不再需要玩具了。 2.Women think all beer is the same. 女人觉得所有品牌的啤酒都是一个味儿。 3.Women keep three different shampoos in the shower.After a woman showers, the ...
However mean your life is,meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hours,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brig...
引言： 傅雷先生在《约翰·克里斯朵夫》的译者献辞中说过：“真正的光明决不是永远没有黑暗的时候，只是永不被黑暗掩蔽罢了。真正的英雄决不是永远没有卑下的情操，只是永不被卑下的情操屈服罢了。……所以在你要战胜外来的敌人之前，先得战胜你内在的敌人；你不必害怕沉沦堕落，只要你能不断地自拔与更新。” Facing the Enemies Within We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. May...
I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best ,and I am not inferior.There will be days when I must IN THE WORLD constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down,Those such sa despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can slso destroy me.Against t...
A little Girl Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl.With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luste...
引言： 我认为人一生就应该尽全力做最好的自己——我想这就是我的信仰。 —埃莉诺.罗斯福 Growth That Starts From Thinking It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life. I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling. I don’t think it was spoken ...
Hope is the thing with feathers ——Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sing the tune without the words And never stops at all And sweetest in the gale is heard And sore must be the storm That could abashed the little bird That kept so many warm I’ve heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest sea Yet, never, in extremity I...
Of all animated beings this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of Nature. She has placed it least in size of the order of birds, “maxime Miranda in minimis.”. Her masterpiece is this little humming-bird, and upon it she has heaped all the gifts which the other b...
The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, brings into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them, or a bank of cowslips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical...