美文与经典

READ THIS WHEN YOU WANT TO GIVE UP Life is messy and complicated, and we canall agree on that. It shows us both its brightest and hardest sides. Sometimesyou end up feeling like everything is completely wrong. You may start feelingdemotivated and unwell, and you may want to give up. It's in those moments of hardship,pain, and uncertainty where we have to take control of our lives. Be morepresent t...

Find your people The one truth that we need to accept aboutlife is that even when you find ‘your people’, those people are not going tostay with you forever. Because sometimes you find those once-in-a-lifetimepeople — you know, the ones with rough edges and messysouls and the biggest heart you've ever seen. People who take your hand andhold it as tight as they can to remind you that they won't let...

Not Everyone Deserves a Front-Row Seatto Your Life. You know that feeling when you sharesomething personal, and suddenly it feels like you handed someone ammunition? That's your intuition telling you that not everyone who asks deserves ananswer. Some people collect your stories liketrading cards -- not because they care about your journey, but because they'rebuilding a case about who you are. They...

HOW I CHANGED MY LIFE I started reading books and quotes thatinspired me to be better or that helped me learn new things. I started changingmy circle. I began spending more time with people who inspired me. People whoare kind. People who lift me higher — and people who Ican help lift too. I started spending more time alone working on myself ratherthan with people who drained or discouraged me. I b...

The Seasons of Life I hope your life is filled with peace andjoy, the kind that makes you feel grounded no matter what season you're in. Ihope you wake up to mornings that remind you there's still goodness in theworld, and I hope you find comfort in the little things that make life worthholding onto. Even if you'll never figure everything out, I hope you get tobreathe in the middle of chaos, to sm...

Isn ’ t it weird howyou can experience situations throughout your life that are so heartbreaking orstressful that you can't ever imagine being okay again? Then a few weeks,months, or even years later, you notice that the days go by without thinkingabout those times. You can laugh, you can smile, you can go about your day andrealize that you're so much stronger and happier than you thought you coul...

When the late Nadine Stair of Louisville,Kentucky, was 85 years old, she was asked what she would do if she had her lifeto live over again. "I'd make more mistakes nexttime," she said. "I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier thanI have been on this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would takemore chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eatmore ice c...

Red: There's not a day goes by I don't feelregret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back onthe way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. Iwant to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him; tell him the waythings are. But I can ’ t. That kid's long gone, and thisold man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated?...

一切刚开始 We ’ re JustBeginning “ We are reading the first verse of thefirst chapter of a book whose pages are infinite... ” I do not know who wrote those words, but Ihave always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want tomake it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anythingthat we can imagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless sto...

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary.;  It rains, and the wind is never weary.  The vine still clings to the molderingwall,  But at every gust the dead leavesfall,  And the day is dark and dreary.  　　 My life is cold and dark and dreary.  It rains and the wind is never weary.  My thought still clings to the molderingpast,  But the hopes of youth fall thic...

浪漫曲折路 Detour to Romance Located in the checkroom in Union Stationas I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs. Harry came in a little over three years agoand waited at the head of the stairs for the passengers from the 9 ∶ 05 train. I remember seeing Harry that first evening. He wasn ’ t much more than a thin, anxious kid then. Hewas all dressed up and I knew he was meeting his girl and...

浪漫曲折路 Detour to Romance One day, after about two weeks, Harry and Iwere talking and I told him about my theory. "If you'll just wait longenough," I said, "you'll see her coming up those stairs someday."He turned and looked at the stairs as though he had never seen them before. The next day when I came to work Harry wasbehind the counter of Tony's magazine stand. He looked at me rather sheepis...

Care your dream My dream ended when I was born. Although Inever knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they areremembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me. I always have the dream to dance like abeautiful ballerina twirling around and around and hearing people applaud forme. When I was young,...

你所记得的一切 All you remember All you remember about your child being aninfant is the incredible awe you felt about the precious miracle you created. You remember having plenty of time to bestow all your wisdom and knowledge. Youthought your child would take all your advice and make fewer mistakes and bemuch smarter than you were. You wished for your child to hurry and grow up. 当你的孩子是个婴...

生活的忠告 Words To Live By I'll give you some advice about life. 给你生活的忠告 Eat more roughage. 多吃些粗粮； Do more than others expect you to do and doit plain. 给别人比他们期望的更多，并用心去做； Remember what life tells you. 熟记生活告诉你的一切； Don't take to heart everything you hear. Don't spend all that you have. Don't sleep as long as you want. 不要轻信你听到的每件事，不要花光你的所...

Most people need to hear those "threelittle words" I love you. Once in a while, they hear them just in time. 大多数人需要听到那“三个小字”——我爱你。有时他们就会在最需要的时候听到。 I met Connie the day she was admitted tothe hospice ward, where I worked as a volunteer. Her husband, Bill, stoodnervously nearby as she was transferred from the gurney to the hospital bed. Although Connie was in the fin...

爷爷的祝福 We tried so hard to make things better forour kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d know better. I'd really like for them to know abouthand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf. I reallywould. My cherished grandson, I hope you learnhumility by surviving failure and that you learn to be honest even when no oneis looking. I hope you learn to make...

I promise to be there for you If one day you feel like crying... 　 如果有一天你想要哭， Call me. 打电话给我。 I don ’ t promisethat I will make you laugh, 我不能保证把你逗笑， But I can cry with you. 但我会和你一起哭。 If one day you want to run away — 如果有一天你想要逃开， Don ’ t be afraid to callme. 打电话给我。 I don ’ t promise toask you to stop... 我不能保证阻止你 But I can run with you....

心情忧郁时 别在悲伤的海里沉浮 每个人都有忧郁的日子。 Everybody has blue days. 那些日子真是惨透了，你觉得心里乱糟糟的、怨气丛生、寂寞、整个人彻底的精疲力竭。 These are miserable days when you feellousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted. 那些日子总会让你感到自己的渺小和微不足道， Days when you feel small and insignificant, 每件事情似乎都够不着边。 when everything seems just out of reach. 你根本...

友谊的颜色 Once upon a time the colors of the worldstarted to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best. Themost important. The most useful. The favorite. Green said: “ ClearlyI am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen forgrass, trees and leaves. Without me, all animals would die. Look over thecountryside and you will see that I am in the majority.” Blue interrupte...

究竟何为重要？ What will matter? Ready or not, some day it will all come toan end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All thethings you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someoneelse. 无论准备好与否，总有一天，这一切都会结束。不会再有日出，不会再有白天，不会有小时或分钟。您收集的所有东西，无论是珍贵的还是被遗忘的，都会传递给其他人。 Your wealth, fame...

Packaging A Person  人的包装 A person, like a commodity, needspackaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration,however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to theiradvantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it isimportant for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A master packager knowshow to integrate art and nature...

Keep Your Direction  坚持你的方向 What would you do if you failed? Manypeople may choose to give up. However, the surest way to success is to keepyour direction and stick to your goal. 如果失败了你会怎么做？很多人可能会选择放弃。然而，要想成功，最可靠的方法就是坚持你的方向和目标。 On your way to success, you must keep yourdirection. It is just like a lamp, guiding you in darkness and helping...

If If you can keep your head when all aboutyou are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all mendoubt you but make allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and not be tired bywaiting, or, being lied about, don ’ t deal in lies, or,being hated, don ’ t give way to hating, and yet don ’ t look too good, nor talk too wise. If you can dream - and not make dreams...

A long time ago, there was a huge appletree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every day. He climbed tothe tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow… He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by … Thelittle boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree. One day, the boy came back to the tree andlooked sad. “ Come and play with me, ” the tre...