Suppose someone gave you a pen a sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a di...
Memorial anniversary By Yunzheng Chen On my friend Hayleas book was a photo of a young American girl. Who is this? I asked. She was our classmate, but unfortunately she died last year, replied Haylea with a sad expression. Her name was Jennifer. She...
I thought adults were the only ones to celebrate Valentines Day, so I was in for a surprise as even elementary students in the United States celebrate it. A few weeks before Valentines Day, the students were told to make the boxes in which we would p...
The lives of most men are determined by their enviroment.They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even with good will.They are like streetcars running contendedly on their rails and they despise the sprig...
Sometimes it takes adverse conditions for people to reach out to one another Sometimes it takes bad luck for people to understand their goals better Sometimes it takes a storm for people to appreciate the calm Sometimes it takes being hurt for people...
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too little and lie too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We have taller buildings, but shorter t...
When you came into the world, she held you in her arms. You thanked her by weeping your eyes out. When you were 1 year old, she fed you and bathed you. You thanked her by crying all night long. When you were 2 years old, she taught you to walk. You t...
There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. 人行道走到尽头...
At first glance I would have never known the value that lied within you, For such a tender age of sixteen you don't often see the things in life that are so true. But then as I got to know you my heart just began to melt, For these were not normal fe...
Joy and Sorrow欢乐与忧伤 Then a woman said, Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow. 有位女子说给我们讲讲欢乐与忧伤吧。 And he answered: 于是智者回答: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. 要快乐先释放你的忧伤。 And the sel...
The family had just moved to Rhode Island,and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that Sunday in May. After all,it was Mother's Day--and 800 miles separated her from her parents in Ohio. 一家人刚移居罗德岛。5月的那个星...
Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view. 今, 吾辈居愈高行愈广,然性愈燥视愈短。 We spend more, but enjoy less. 费愈靡然享愈少。 We have bigger houses, but sma...
Music I heard with you was more than music. Exactly. And therefore music itself can only be heard alone. Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. Alone one is never lonely: the spirit adventures, wal...
Indeed, for a living being there is no such thing as true silence, for silence itself is a revelation of the mind and the heart, an echo of the soul of a different form. Some people use silence as a disguise of the emptiness of the head. Some use it...
People today, in all this new world technology and thinking, have lost sight of what a true friendship is. So, in sprit of my best friend Tellie, I thought I would help the world out a little and explain what real, true friends are. 1. Friends don't...