Reading Good Books Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book- lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people....
Self-Awareness The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and hrough with profound yet temperate happiness. Healone lives, while other people, slaves of cere...
Think it Over Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view; We spend more,but enjoy less; We have bigger houses,but smaller famillies; We have more compromises,but less time; We have more know...
A Grain of Sand To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild fllower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. [参考译文] 一粒沙子-威廉.布莱克 从一粒沙子看到一个世界， 从一朵野花看到一...
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby. Then we are frustrated[沮丧的] that the kids arent old enough and well be more content[满意的] when they are. After that were frustrated that we have teenagers to...
The 50 signs you are a grown-up Key signs of adulthood are no longer relying on mum and dad for financial decisions, being able to cook an evening meal from scratch and owning a lawn mower according to the Skipton Building Society. Here are the 50 th...
We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do...
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they...
Every morning at approximately 8:48 a.m., I pass itthe brick building that I visited many times as a child and that once seemed so grand, now a miniature playhouse in my mind. 每天早晨，大约8点48分的时候，我都会路过那栋砖砌的建筑...
My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously. It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, woolen overcoats -- a rose among thorns. 在马萨...
