日期：2012-11-06 When we asked whether or not there are shortcuts to becoming an expert, many of the responses revolved around a single theme: The quickest path to expertise is to take direct action, get a lot of experience, and work your ass off. There may be some... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 When you are first learning or perfecting a skill, whether it be baking, archery, or public speaking, it is easy to get stuck in the cycle of analysis paralysis. You want to learn as much as you possibly can before you actually do the task, but you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 Have you ever thought life would be better anywhere other than where you are right now? Maybe some of your thoughts go something like this: Life will be better once I'm out of debt. I can't wait until I'm retired because then I can do what I want wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-30 There is no rush, there is no hurry. For this beautiful moment is already here. There is no lack, there is no limit. For the possibilities of now stretch out in all directions. There is no worry, there is no regret. For this is the time to live and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-30 The most beautiful in the world is your face. The warmest in the world is your chest. The strongest in the world is your arms. The purest in the world is your heart. You are like lotus（荷花） above the water,red plums in the snow, green pines in bi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-30 My sister was watching me sympathetically as I burst into tears for what annoyed me. Holding my hand firmly in hers, she sat by my side without uttering（发出，作声） a word. Willingly or not, I had been her sister for 13 years since I was 7 years o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-30 The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was wrong b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-23 The love which consists in this,that two solitudes protect and limit and great each other. Love's mysteries in souls do grow, but yet the body in his book. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-23 It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous（极凶恶的） than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot ex... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-23 Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered（杂乱，混乱） with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-23 I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward（尴尬的，笨拙的） adolescence trying awk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-23 When love beckons（召唤，吸引） to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-19 I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of grey mou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-18 Living standards have soared during the twentieth century, and economists expect them to continue rising in the decades ahead. Does that mean that we humans can look forward to increasing Happiness? Not necessarily, warns Richard A. Easterlin, an ec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-18 Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-18 It was New Year's 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-17 A great life doesn't happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating（分配） your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-15 If anyone tries to tell you that you can't work hard enough to face the task in front of you--show them that you're tough. If anyone tries to tell you that you are not that strong, don't listen to discouragement--know that you belong. If anyone trie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-15 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of history's most famous and mysterious composers died at the age of 57 with one great secret. Upon his death, a love letter was found among his possessions. It was written to an unknown woman who Beethoven simp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-15 Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding custom, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead. I don't remember when it first started annoying me her han... 阅读全文>>