Life is What We Make It Are you dissatisfied with todays success? It is the harvest from yesterdays sowing. Do you dream of a golden morrow? You will reap what you are sowing today. We get out of life just what we put into it. Nature takes on our moo...
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; 聆听黎明的训导! 把握今天！ 因为今天就是生活，真正的生活。 成长...
Mothers Day and Fathers Day People in the United States honor their parents with two special days：Mothers Day，on the second Sunday in May，and Fathers Day，on the third Sunday in June． Mothers Day was proclaimed a day for national observance...
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, ext...
If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it' s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ways to do this is by developing my own helping rituals. These little acts of kindness are opportunities to be of service and reminde...
The Paradox of Happiness What is the definition of happiness?Is it material wealth filled with fancy cars, a dream house,exteravagant furs and jewelry? Or is happiness simply having a roof over your head? Food in the fridge?Having a child? A pet?A sw...
What makes a home? Love and sympathy and confidence. It is a place where kindly affections exist among all the members of the family.The parents take good care of their children, and the children are interested in the activities of their parents. Thu...
The Choice of Companion A good companion is better than a fortune, for a fortune cannot purchase those elements of character which make companionship a blessing. The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves, for we are inspired by...
Man's Youth by Thomas wolfe Man's youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he nevr comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear to lose, it is the thing whose passing he wa...
Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you will see the men who...
It was New Years Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more h...
Universities and Their Function By Alfred North Whitehead The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. Th...
Suit Is Best By William Hazlitt The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine sounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing from its learning and novelty, and yet in the connection...
Companionship of Books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. A g...
How Should One Read a Book? By Virginia Woolf It is simple enough to say that since books have classes--fiction, biography, poetry--we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books wh...
