What Is Happiness? "Are you happy?" I asked my brother, Ian, one day. "Yes. No. It depends on what you mean," he said. "Then tell me," I said, "when was the last time you think you were happy?" "April...
Mr. Vinegar and His Fortune Retold by James Baldwin A long time go, there lived a poor man whose real name has been forgotten. He was little and old and his face was 1) wrinkled, and that was why his...
TONIGHT I CAN WRITE Written by Pablo Neruda Read by Andy Garcia Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, "The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance." The night...
A Reason, Season, or Lifetime People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you 1) figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. When someone is in you...
Eliminating Bad English Speaking Habits I say "um" too much 1) Vocalized pauses or 2) fillers, including "um", "uh" and "ah", and their close relatives, "like", "you know", and "okay?", are some of th...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (2) Written by Richard Bach The gulls were 1) flocked into the Council gathering when he landed, and apparently had been so flocked for some time. They were, in fact, waiti...
To the real Jonathan Seagull, who lives within us all -- Jonathan Livingston Seagull (I) Written by Richard Bach It was morning, and the new sun 1) sparkled gold across the 2) ripples of a gentle sea....
Me and My Cello Written by Christian Williams Six years ago I, then a fellow of 35, was struck by an 1) impulse of the romantic and 2) irreducible sort, which I have since compared to a torrid scene i...
In an 1) admittedly rather unromantic field, Schopenhauer is the one philosopher who seems to understand the 2) intensity of what we feel when we fall in love. He thought we were absolutely right to b...
The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble Written by James Thurber Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near 1) a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they...
When You are Old by William Butler Yeats When you are old and 1)gray and full of sleep And 2)nodding by the fire, 3)take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the 4)soft look Your eyes had onc...
What I Have Lived For By Bertrand Russell Three passions, simple but 1) overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and 2) unbearable pity for the suf...
