现在当着我们面前的是人生的盛宴，惟一成为问题的是我们的胃口如何，胃口比筵席更为实在。讲到人，最最难于了解的是他对工作所抱的观念，以及他自己要做的工作或社会需要他做的工作。世间万物尽在过悠闲的日子，只有人类为着生活而工作。他因为不能不去工作，于是在文明日益进步中的生活变为愈加复杂，随时随地是义务、责任、恐惧、障碍和野心，这些并不是生而有之，而是由人类社会所产生。譬如当我坐在书桌边时，我看见一只...
和逻辑相对的有常识，或更好一些的说法：还有近情的精神。我以为近情精神实是人类文化最高的、最合理的理想，而近情的人实在就是最高形式的有教养的人。世人没有一个人是完美无缺的；他只能力争上游去做一个近乎情理的生物。我正期待着世界上将有一个世人在个人的事件上，并在国家的事件上，都会得着这个近情精神之鼓舞的时期。近情的国家将生活于和平之中，近情的夫妻能生活于快乐之中。在我替我的女儿挑选丈夫时，我将只有...
Add luster to your personality（让个性大放异彩） 立即阅读
In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards. Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving for them.
Today before you think of saying an unkind word, Think of someone who can't speak. Before you complain about the taste of your food, Think of someone who has nothing to eat. Before you complain about your husband or wife, Think of someone who's crying out to God for a companion. Today before you complain about life, Think of someone who went too early to heaven.
Industry significance（勤劳的意义） 立即阅读
The significant inscription found on an old key "If I rest, I rust" would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest taint of idleness. Even the most industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.
Do something for yourself（做你自己） 立即阅读
As a little boy, there was nothing I liked better than Sunday aftemoons at my grandfather's farm in western Pennsylvania. Surrounded by miles of winding stonewalls, the house and barn provided endless hours of fun for a city kid like me. I was used to parlors neat as a pin that seemed to whisper, "Not to be touched!"
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty. There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we find beggars, invalids and so-called failures, who are extremely happy.
We are on ajourney（我们在旅途中） 立即阅读
Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this monment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest, we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, and ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
Be grateful to life（感恩生活） 立即阅读
Once President Roosevelt’s house was broken into and lots of things were stolen. Hearing this, one of Roosevelt’s friends wrote to him and advised him not to take it to his heart so much. President Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying,”Dear friend, thank you for your letter to comfort me. I’m all right now. I think I should thank God. This is because of the following three reasons: firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief…”
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than that of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find it easy to condone them.