日期：2012-03-07 The next morning, after breakfast, I did a geography lesson and then Mother said I could go downstairs and play in the boat. I rowed once around the down-stairs, avoiding the mess of timbers in the hall where the terrible accident had occurred. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-07 Recently I gave a dinner party for some close friends. To add a touch of elegance to the evening, I brought out the good stuff--my white Royal Crown Derby china with the fine blue-and-gold border. When we were seated, one of the guests noticed the b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-07 On my way home from coaching basketball yesterday, I was listening to WGN, my favorite talk radio station out of Chicago. I could tell right away that there was something wrong by the somber（忧郁的） mood of the speaker. There had been a plane cras... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I will live this day as if it is my last. I have but one life and life is naught（无价值的） but a measurement of time. When I waste one I destroy the other. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life. Therefore, each hour of this day will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I will live this day as if it is my last. And what shall I do with this last precious day which remains in my keeping? First, I will seal up its container of life so that not one drop spills itself upon the sand. I will waste not a moment mourning y... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I am nature's greatest miracle. I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I am nature's greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and tal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I confront each whom I meet? In only one way. In silence and to myself I will address him and say I Love You. Though spoken in silence these words will shine in my eyes, unwrinkle my brow, br... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I will persist until I succeed. I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I will persist until I succeed. In the Orient young bulls are tested for the fight arena in a certain manner. Each is brought to the ring and allowed to attack a picador（骑马斗牛士） who pricks them with a lance（长矛） . The bravery of each bull i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-14 I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard（延迟） my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not, I will not, break this habit of dai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin, which has too long suffered the bruise s（擦伤） of failure and the wounds of mediocrity（平庸） . Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. Today I will pl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 As you travel through life there are always those times when decisions just have to be made when the choices are hard, and solutions seem scarce and the rain seems to soak your parade! There are some situations where all you can do is to simply let... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 Love.. what is love? A lot of people shared their views to what Love really is, or at least what Love is in their eyes. Perhaps love is just an illusion（幻觉，错觉） . A strong illusion, especially for those who are searching for a purpose of life.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle（甬道） and fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-02-09 People have been passionate about roses since the beginning of time. In fact, it is said that the floors of Cleopatra's palace were carpeted with delicate rose petals, and that the wise and knowing Confucius had a 600-book library specifically on ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-01-12 A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake（分享，参与） of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. The bride was gorgeous in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-01-12 I like to think that a bit of her laughter, sense of wonder and fun travels with them and that any tears or sadness are long since washed away. I moved from Chicago to Brooklyn in July of 2004, just in time to watch my mother die. That wasn't why I... 阅读全文>>