日期：2014-05-03 Common interest The proverb says that birds of the feather lock together. This may be true in some cases but generally speaking, the two individuals need a common interest. It may be playing video games or horse riding. It doesn't matter; you just h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life（渐老） . Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations, and who are able to learn from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite... I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself and screams, AAAhhhh!!! To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain, AAAhhhh!!! Curious, he yells, Who are you? He receives the a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, This is my fate, my destiny. I cannot change it. Of course not! You don't have to suffer needlessly. Your destiny depends on you, not on any other external factors... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 Nothing succeeds lacks confidence. When you are truly confident, it radiates（辐射，流露） from you like sunlight, and attracts success to you like a magnet. It's important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it under any circumstances,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 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（培养，陶... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 Sweet to remember the tiny elevator I used to take to the garret someone had loaned me as an office and the way three people would crowd into its one-meter square and share our scents and stinks（恶臭） and emanations（散发） , even the half-thug fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 If you don't want to give me money, or a job, or something to eat, he announces loudly to the subway car, then why not adopt me? I'm cleaner than a dog, I'm housebroken, so I don't have to be walked. Most of us are amused, but still, not many come a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-15 Mr.Bauman's doctors had warned him and his wife that the was at high risk for a heart attack. But when the attack actually came, Mrs.Baumann still wasn't prepared. Gripped with shock, fear, and panic, she rode by her husband's side in the ambulance,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-04 If you've ever fantasised about selling everything you own and paring down your possessions to the bare essentials, you're probably familiar with minimalism. 所有的物品全部卖掉，只保留最基本的必需品，越简单越好。如果你曾有过这种幻想，那么简约主义对... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 The only problem unconsciously assumed by all Chinese philosophers to be of any importance is: How shall we enjoy life, and who can best enjoy life? No perfectionism, no straining after the unattainable, no postulating（假定，要求） of he unknowable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy（脾气暴躁的） , lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You can't rise to the occasion. Just ge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 A Faraway Friend is someone you grew up with or went to school with or lived in the same town as until one of you moved away. Without a Faraway Friend, you would never get any mail addressed in handwriting. A Faraway Friend calls late at night, invi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and, as is conventional, I wished her success. I was lying. What I actually wish for her is failure. I believe in the power of failure. Success is boring. Success is proving that you can do something... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 Between the preparation and the work, the apprenticeship（学徒期） and the actual dealing with a task or an art, there comes, in the experience of many young men, a period of uncertainty and wandering which is often misunderstood and counted as time... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 There is a hill near my home that I often climb at night. The noise of the city is a far-off murmur. In the hush of dark I share the cheerfulness of crickets and the confidence of owls. But it is the drama of the moonrise that I come to see. For tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live on the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-02 We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite... I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious,... 阅读全文>>