Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life. Youth...
Destiny Plays Both are convinced that a sudden surge of emotion bound them together. Beautiful is such a certainty, but uncertainty is more beautiful. Because they didnt know each other earlier, they suppose that nothing was happening between them....
Be Tough Although we would all love to be Ms Popular at home and in the office, at work the task is not to be liked, but to be effective, says computer sales executive Andrea. This is possibly the single most important lesson we can learn. You can't...
白领英语晨读-043 Don’t 不要...
Hope Hope is what makes one's life continue forward. Setting goals for oneself is fine, but impossible to reach without hope. Many humans believe that hope is what creates disappointment; a sad belief to have. For hope provides one with the ability...
It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money,...
白领英语晨读-040 Living a Life 生活...
Travel on Foot The past ages of man have all been carefully labelled by anthropologists. Descriptions like Palaeolithic Man. Neolithic Man, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twe...
This Too Shall Pass For all worldly things shall indeed pass. When I am heavy with heartache I shall console myself that this too shall pass; when I am puffed with success I shall warn myself that this too shall pass. When I am strangled in poverty...
King Athamus of northern Greece had two children, Phrixus and Helle. After he left his first wife and mar ried Ino, a wicked woman, the two children received all the cruel treatment that a stepmother could devise. At one time the kingdom was ruined...
36. you are special a well-know speaker started on his seminar by holding up a $20 bill in the room of 200. He asked,who would like this $20 bill.Hands started going up.He said,I'm going to give this $20 to one of you,but first,let me do this.He pro...
Conquer Fear To conquer ones fears ,one must see past them .To fear is natural ; to see past them is heroic. Fear is normal additive to life ,symbolizing that there are new ,sometimes extraordinary things to come ,to face .To be able to see these th...
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...
And it always will be.For love still remains Life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways That are wondrous and strange And there's nothing in life That love cannot change! Love can transform The most commonplace Into beauty and splendor And sweetness a...
Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than y...
