日期：2011-09-23 Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy（讨厌的） , grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You cant rise to the occasion. Just getting... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-16 One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He mus... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-16 A certain daughter complained to her father about her life and how things have been so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and she wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed that just as one proble... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-16 The end of my sophomore year was approaching. Mom called me at the dorm one muggy（闷热的） evening during the last week of May. My summer break would be spent with grandma and grandpa, helping out around their farm. The arrangement made good sense... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-16 Life doesn't always give us the joys we want. We don't always get our hopes and dreams, and we don't always get our own way. But don't give up hope, because you can make a difference, one situation and one person at a time. Look for the beauty aroun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in any given situation and is most often composed of the plus characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact（机智... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 It isn't possible to achieve self-discipline without making some progress on those other principles; self discipline requries self-knowledge and an accurate assesssment of your current abilities. Likewise, the other principles can't really be put in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 Her are steps to building your enthusiasm: Adopt a definite major purpose. Write out a clear statement of that purpose and your plan for attaining（获得，达到） it. Include a statement of what you intend to give in return for its realization. Back y... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 The overwhelming majority（绝大多数） of people never recognize the difference between wishing and believing. They never take six steps that will help them use their minds to attain their desires. These steps are summarized below, along with my obse... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 The first day of school our professor introduced himself to our chemistry class and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither（到处） , i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-12 Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, If I were any better, I would be twins! He was a unique manager because h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-12 When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would inwardly（思想上） squirm at the unwanted atten... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-29 If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff（小艇） , even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer（控制，驾驶） clear. If the shou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-29 Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This kind of retaliation（报复，反击） should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstances. If you have nothing but a rag doll stuffed with sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-29 The smell of wood, refreshingly sweet, greeted me even before I sat down at the round table. As if breathing along with the trees, I felt a simple, primitive（原始的，简单的） joy when admiring those furniture and home articles shaped and carved out... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-29 Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel: all claimed that they were the most important, the most useful, the favorite. Green said: Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen for the grass, tr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-29 Once a circle missed a wedge（楔子） . The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with wor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-12 You've been working out regularly for quite a while, but you're nowhere near your fitness goals. So now it's time to bring in your ultimate weapon your mind. Rather than thinking of fitness as something mysterious that you do with your body, take an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-10 Healthy and Fit The first goal common to all of us is health and energy. We all want to be healthy and fit, to have high levels of energy and to live free of pain and illness. Today, with the incredible advances in medical science, the quality of ou... 阅读全文>>