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目录：
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第一篇：
Youth
青春
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第二篇：
Three Days to
See(Excerpts)
假如给我三天光明（节选）
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第三篇
：
Companionship of Books
以书为伴（节选）
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第四篇：
If I Rest, I
Rust
如果我休息，我就会生锈
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第五篇：
Ambition
抱负
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第六篇：
What I have
Lived for
我为何而生
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第七篇：
When Love
Beckons You
爱的召唤
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第八篇：
The Road to
Success
成功之道
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第九篇：
On Meeting
the Celebrated
论见名人
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第十篇：
The
50-Percent Theory of Life
生活理论半对半
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第十一篇：
What is
Your Recovery Rate?
你的恢复速率是多少？
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第十二篇：
Clear Your
Mental Space
清理心灵的空间
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第十三篇：
Be Happy
快乐
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第十四篇：
The
Goodness of life
生命的美好
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第十五篇：
Facing the
Enemies Within
直面内在的敌人
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第十六篇：
Abundance
is a Life Style
富足的生活方式
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第十七篇：
Human Life
a Poem
人生如诗
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第十八篇：
Solitude
独处
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第十九篇：
Giving Life
Meaning
给生命以意义
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第二十篇：
Relish the
Moment
品位现在
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第二十一篇：
The Love
of Beauty
爱美
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第二十二篇：
The Happy
Door
快乐之门
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第二十三篇：
Born to
Win
生而为赢
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第二十四篇：
Work and
Pleasure
工作和娱乐
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第二十五篇：
Mirror,
Mirror--What do I see
镜子
,
镜子
,
告诉我
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第二十六篇：
On Motes
and Beams
微尘与栋梁
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第二十七篇：
An October
Sunrise
十月的日出
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第二十八篇：
To Be or
Not to Be
生存还是毁灭
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第二十九篇：
Gettysburg
Address
葛底斯堡演说
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第三十篇：
First
Inaugural Address(Excerpts)
就职演讲（节选）
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第一篇：
Youth
青春
Youth
Youth is
not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is
not a matter of rosy cheeks,
red
lips
and
supple
knees;
it
is
a
matter
of
the
will,
a
quality
of
the
imagination,
a
vigor of the emotions; it is the
freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth
means
a
temperamental
predominance
of
courage
over
timidity,
of
the
appetite for adventure over the love of
ease. This
often exists
in
a man of 60 more
than a boy
of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of
years. We grow old by
deserting our
ideals.
Years may wrinkle
the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul. Worry,
fear, self-distrust bows
the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is
in every human being?s heart the lure of wonders,
the
unfailing ap
petite for
what?s next and the joy of the game of living. In
the center of
your heart and my heart,
there is a wireless station; so long as it
receives messages of
beauty, hope,
courage and power from man and from the infinite,
so long as you are
young.
When your aerials are down,
and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism
and
the
ice
of
pessimism,
then
you?ve
grown
old,
even
at
20;
but
as
long
as
your
aerials are up, to catch waves of
optimism, there?s hope you may die young at 80.
第二篇：
Three Days to
See(Excerpts)
假如给我三天光明（节选）
Three Days to
See
All
of
us
have
read
thrilling
stories
in
which
the
hero
had
only
a
limited
and
specified time to live. Sometimes it
was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24
hours. But always we were interested in
discovering just how the doomed hero chose
to spend his last days or his last
hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a
choice, not condemned criminals whose
sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
Such
stories
set
us
thinking,
wondering
what
we
should
do
under
similar
circumstances.
What
events,
what
experiences,
what
associations
should
we
crowd
into
those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?
Sometimes I have thought it
would be an excellent rule to live each day as if
we
should die tomorrow. Such an
attitude would emphasize sharply the values of
life. We
should live each day with
gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation
which are
often lost when time
stretches before us in the constant panorama of
more days and
months and years to come.
There are those, of course, who would adopt the
Epicurean
motto
of
“Eat,
drink,
and
be
merry”.
But
most
people
would
be
chastened
by
the
certainty of impending
death.
In stories the
doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by
some stroke of
fortune,
but
almost
always
his
sense
of
values
is
changed.
He
becomes
more
appreciative
of
the
meaning
of
life
and
its
permanent
spiritual
values.
It
has
often
been noted that those
who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death
bring a mellow
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sweetness to
everything they do.
Most of
us, however, take life for granted. We know that
one day we must die,
but usually we
picture that day as far in the future. When we are
in buoyant health,
death
is
all
but
unimaginable.
We
seldom
think
of
it.
The
days
stretch
out
in
an
endless
vista.
So
we
go
about
our
petty
tasks,
hardly
aware
of
our
listless
attitude
toward life.
The
same
lethargy,
I
am
afraid,
characterizes
the
use
of
all
our
faculties
and
senses. Only the deaf appreciate
hearing, only the blind realize the manifold
blessings
that lie in sight.
Particularly does this observation apply to those
who have lost sight
and hearing in
adult life. But those who have never suffered
impairment of sight or
hearing
seldom
make
the
fullest
use
of
these
blessed
faculties.
Their
eyes
and
ears
take in all sights and sounds hazily,
without concentration and with little
appreciation.
It is the same old story
of not being grateful for what we have until we
lose it, of not
being conscious of
health until we are ill.
I
have often thought it would be a blessing if each
human being were stricken
blind and
deaf for a few days at some time during his early
adult life. Darkness would
make him
more appreciative of sight; silence would teach
him the joys of sound.
第三篇：
Companionship of Books
以书为伴（节选）
Companionship of Books
A man may usually be known by the books
he reads as well as by the company
he
keeps; for there is a companionship of books as
well as of men; and one should
always
live in the best company, whether it be of books
or of men.
A good book may
be among the best of friends. It is the same today
that it always
was, and it will never
change.
It
is
the
most patient
and cheerful
of
companions.
It
does not turn
its back upon us in times of adversity or
distress. It always receives us
with
the
same
kindness;
amusing
and
instructing
us
in
youth,
and
comforting
and
consoling us in age.
Men often discover their
affinity to each other by the mutual love they
have for a
book just as two persons
sometimes discover a friend by the admiration
which both
entertain for a third. There
is an old proverb, ?Love me, love my dog.” But
there is
more wisdom in this:” Love me,
love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond
of union. Men can think, feel, and
sympathize with each other through their favorite
author. They live in him together, and
he in them.
A good book is
often the best urn of a life enshrining the best
that life could think
out; for the
world of a man?s life is, for the most part, but
the world of his tho
ughts.
Thus
the
best
books
are
treasuries
of
good
words,
the
golden
thoughts,
which,
remembered and
cherished, become our constant companions and
comforters.
Books
possess
an
essence
of
immortality.
They
are
by
far
the
most
lasting
products of human effort. Temples and
statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no
account
with
great
thoughts,
which
are
as
fresh
today
as
when
they
first
passed
through their
author?s minds, ages ago. What was then said and
thought still speaks to
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us as vividly
as ever from the printed page. The only effect of
time have been to sift
out
the bad products;
for
nothing in
literature
can
long
survive e but what
is
really
good.
Books introduce us into the best
society; they bring us into the presence of the
greatest minds that have ever lived. We
hear what they said and did; we see the as if
they were really alive; we sympathize
with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them;
their experience becomes
ours, and
we
feel
as
if we were in
a measure
actors with
them in the
scenes which they describe.
The
great
and
good
do
not
die,
even
in
this
world.
Embalmed
in
books,
their
spirits
walk
abroad.
The
book
is
a
living
voice.
It
is
an
intellect
to
which
on
still
listens.
第四篇：
If I Rest, I Rust
如果我休息，我就会生锈
If I Rest, I Rust
The significant inscription found on an
old key---
“If I rest, I
rust”
---would be an
excellent motto for those who are
afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even
the
most industrious person might adopt
it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if
one allows his faculties to rest, like
the iron in the unused key, they will soon show
signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot
do the work required of them.
Those who would attain
the
heights
reached
and kept
by
great
men must
keep
their
faculties
polished
by
constant
use,
so
that
they
may
unlock
the
doors
of
knowledge,
the
gate
that
guard
the
entrances
to
the
professions,
to
science,
art,
literature, agriculture---every
department of human endeavor.
Industry
keeps
bright
the
key
that
opens
the
treasury
of
achievement.
If
Hugh
Miller, after toiling
all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to
rest and recreation,
he
would
never
have
become
a
famous
geologist.
The
celebrated
mathematician,
Edmund
Stone,
would
never
have
published
a
mathematical
dictionary,
never
have
found
the
key
to
science
of
mathematics,
if
he
had
given
his
spare
moments
to
idleness,
had
the
little
Scotch
lad,
Ferguson,
allowed
the
busy
brain
to
go
to
sleep
while he
tended sheep on the hillside instead of
calculating the position of the stars by
a string of beads, he would never have
become a famous astronomer.
Labor
vanquishes
all---not
inconstant,
spasmodic,
or
ill-directed
labor;
but
faithful,
unremitting,
daily
effort
toward
a
well-directed
purpose.
Just
as
truly
as
eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price
of noble and
enduring success.
第五篇：
Ambition
抱负
Ambition
It is
not difficult to imagine a world short of
ambition. It would probably be a
kinder
world: with out demands, without abrasions,
without disappointments. People
would
have time for reflection. Such work as they did
would not be for themselves
but
for
the
collectivity.
Competition
would
never
enter
in.
conflict
would
be
eliminated, tension become a thing of
the past. The stress of creation would be at an
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end.
Art
would
no
longer
be
troubling,
but
purely
celebratory
in
its
functions.
Longevity would be increased, for fewer
people would die of heart attack or stroke
caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety
would be extinct. Time would stretch on and
on, with ambition long departed from
the human heart.
Ah, how
unrelieved boring life would be!
There is a strong view that holds that
success is a myth, and ambition therefore a
sham.
Does
this
mean
that
success
does
not
really
exist?
That
achievement
is
at
bottom empty? That the efforts of men
and women are of no significance alongside
the force of movements and events now
not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming,
nor
all
ambition
worth
cultivating.
Which
are
and
which
are
not
is
something
one
soon
e
nough
learns
on
one?s
own.
But
even
the
most
cynical
secretly
admit
that
success exists; that
achievement counts for a great deal; and that the
true myth is that
the actions of men
and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to
take on a point
of view that is likely
to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to
remove all motives
for competence,
interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.
We do not choose to be
born. We do not choose our parents. We do not
choose
our historical epoch, the
country of our birth, or the immediate
circumstances of our
upbringing.
We
do
not,
most
of
us,
choose
to
die;
nor
do
we
choose
the
time
or
conditions of our death.
But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do
choose how
we shall live: courageously
or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with
purpose
or in drift. We decide what is
important and what is trivial in life. We decide
that what
makes us significant is
either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no
matter how
indifferent
the
universe
may
be
to
our
choices
and
decisions,
these
choices
and
decisions are ours to make. We decide.
We choose. And as we decide and choose, so
are our lives formed. In the end,
forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
第六篇：
What I have
Lived for
我为何而生
What I Have Lived For
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,
in
a
wayward course, over a deep ocean of
anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first,
because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that
I would
often have sacrificed all the
rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I
have sought it,
next,
because
it
relieves
loneliness---that
terrible
loneliness
in
which
one
shivering
consciousness
looks
over
the
rim
of
the
world
into
the
cold
unfathomable
lifeless
abyss. I have
sought it, finally, because in the union of love I
have seen, in a mystic
miniature, the
prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and
poets have imagined.
This
is
what
I
sought,
and
though
it
might
seem
too
good
for
human
life,
this
is
what---at last---I have found.
With
equal
passion
I
have
sought
knowledge.
I
have
wished
to
understand
the
hearts
of
men.
I
have
wished
to
know
why
the
stars
shine.
And
I
have
tried
to
apprehend
the
Pythagorean
power
by
which
number
holds
sway
above
the
flux.
A
little of this, but not much, I have
achieved.
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Love
and
knowledge,
so
far
as
they
were
possible,
led
upward
toward
the
heavens. But always it
brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain
reverberate
in my heart. Children in
famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless
old people a
hated burden to their
sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty,
and pain make
a mockery of what human
life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but
I cannot, and
I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it
worth living, and would gladly live it again
if the chance were offered me.
第七篇：
When Love
Beckons You
爱的召唤
When Love Beckons You
When love beckons 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 may
shatter your dreams as the north wind
lays waste the garden.
For
even
as
love
crowns
you
so
shall
he
crucify
you.
Even
as
he
is
for
your
growth so is he for
your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height
and caresses your
tenderest branches
that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our
roots and shake
them in their clinging
to the earth.
But if, in
your fear, you would seek only love?s peace and
love?s pleasure, then it
is
better
for
you
that
you
cover
your
na
kedness
and
pass
out
of
love?s
threshing-floor, into
the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but
not all of your
laughter, and weep, but
not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it
self and takes
naught
but
from
itself.
Love
possesses
not,
nor
would
it
be
possessed,
for
love
is
sufficient unto love.
Love
has
no
other
desire
but
to
fulfill
itself.
But
if
you
love
and
must
have
desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a
running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much
tenderness.
To be wounded by your own
understanding of love;
And to bleed
willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn
with a winged heart and give thanks for another
day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour
and meditate love?s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with
gratitude;
And then to sleep with a
payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of
praise
upon your lips.
第八篇：
The Road to Success
成功之道
The Road to Success
It
is
well
that
young
men
should
begin
at
the
beginning
and
occupy
the
most
subordinate positions. Many of the
leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious
responsibility
thrust
upon
them
at
the
very
threshold
of
their
career.
They
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introduced to the broom, and spent the
first hours of their business lives sweeping out
the office. I notice we have janitors
and janitresses now in offices, and our young men
unfortunately
miss
that
salutary
branch
of
business
education.
But
if
by
chance
the
professional sweeper is absent any
morning, the boy who has the genius of the future
partner
in
him
will
not
hesitate
to
try
his
hand
at
the
broom.
It
does
not
hurt
the
newest
comer
to
sweep
out
the
office
if
necessary.
I
was
one
of
those
sweepers
myself.
Assuming
that
you
have
all
obtained
employment
and
are
fairly
started,
my
advice to you is “aim high”. I would
not give a fig for the young man who does not
already see himself the partner or the
head of an important firm. Do not rest content
for a moment in your thoughts as head
clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any
concern, no matter how extensive. Say
to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king
in your dreams.
And
here
is
the
prime
condition
of
success,
the
great
secret:
concentrate
your
energy, thought, and capital
exclusively upon the business in which you are
engaged.
Having begun in one line,
resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in
it, adopt every
improvement, have the
best machinery, and know the most about it.
The
concerns
which
fail
are
those
which
have
scattered
their
capital,
which
means that they have scattered their
brains also. They have investments in this, or
that,
or the other, here there, and
everywhere. “Don?t put all your eggs in
one basket.” is all
wrong.
I
tell
you
to
“put
all
your
eggs
in
one
basket,
and
then
watch
that
basket.”
Look round you and
take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is
easy to watch
and carry the one basket.
It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks
most eggs
in this country. He who
carries three baskets must put one on his head,
which is apt to
tumble
and
trip
him
up.
One
fault
of
the
American
businessman
is
lack
of
concentration.
To summarize what I have said: aim for
the highest; never enter a bar room; do
not touch liquor, or if at all only at
meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your
surplus cash fund; make the firm?s
interest yours; break orders always to save
owners;
concentrate;
put
all
your
eggs
in
one
basket,
and
watch
that
basket;
expenditure
always
within
revenue;
lastly,
be
not
impatient,
for
as
Emerson
says,
“no
one
can
cheat you out of
ultimate success but yourselves.”
第九篇：
On Meeting
the Celebrated
论见名人
On Meeting the Celebrated
I have always wondered at
the passion many people have to meet the
celebrated.
The prestige you acquire by
being able to tell your friends that you know
famous men
proves
only
that
you
are
yourself
of
small
account.
The
celebrated
develop
a
technique to deal with the
persons they come across. They show the world a
mask,
often an impressive on, but take
care to conceal their real selves. They play the
part
that is expected from them, and
with practice learn to play it very well, but you
are
stupid
if
you
think
that this
public
performance
of
theirs
corresponds
with
the
man
within.
I have been attached,
deeply attached, to a few people; but I have been
interested
in men in general not for
their own sakes, but for the sake of my work. I
have not, as
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enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself,
but as material that might be
useful to
me as a writer. I have been more concerned with
the obscure than with the
famous. They
are more often themselves. They have had no need
to create a figure to
protect
themselves
from
the
world
or
to
impress
it.
Their
idiosyncrasies
have
had
more
chance
to
develop
in
the
limited
circle
of
their
activity,
and
since
they
have
never been in the public eye it has
never occurred to them that they have anything to
conceal. They display their oddities
because it has never struck them that they are
odd.
And after all it is with the
common run of men that we writers have to deal;
kings,
dictators,
commercial
magnates
are
from
our
point
of
view
very
unsatisfactory.
To
write about them is a venture that has
often tempted writers, but the failure that has
attended
their
efforts
shows
that
such
beings
are
too
exceptional
to
form
a
proper
ground for a work of art. They cannot
be
made real. The ordinary is the
writer?s richer
field. Its
unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite
variety afford unending material.
The
great
man
is
too
often
all
of
a
piece;
it
is
the
little
man
that
is
a
bundle
of
contradictory
elements.
He
is
inexhaustible.
You
never
come
to
the
end
of
the
surprises he has in
store for you. For my part I would much sooner
spend a month on
a desert island with a
veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.
第十篇：
The
50-Percent Theory of Life
生活理论半对半
The 50-Percent Theory of Life
I believe in the 50-percent
theory. Half the time things are better than
normal; the
other
half,
they
re
worse.
I
believe
life
is
a
pendulum
swing.
It
takes
time
and
experience
to
understand
what
normal
is,
and
that
gives
me
the
perspective
to
deal
with the
surprises of the future.
Let?s
benchmark
the
parameters:
yes,
I
will
die.
I?ve
dealt
with
the
deaths
of
parents, a best friend, a
beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these
deaths have
been violent, before my
eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff and it
belongs at the
bottom of the scale.
Then
there
are
those
high
points:
romance
and
marriage
to
the
right
person;
having
a
child
and
doing
those
Dad
things
like
coaching
my
son?
s
baseball
team,
paddling around the
creek in the boat while he?s swimming with the
dogs, discovering
his compassion so
deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails,
his imagination so
vivid he builds a
spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.
But
there
is
a
vast
meadow
of
life
in
the
middle,
where
the
bad
and
the
good
flip-flop acrobatically. This is what
convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.
One spring I planted corn
too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that
neighbors
laughed. I felt chagrined at
the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal---the
worst heat
wave
and
drought
in
my
lifetime.
The
air-conditioned
died;
the
well
went
dry;
the
marriage
ended;
the
job
lost;
the
money
gone.
I
was
living
lyrics
from
a
country
tune---music I loathed. Only a surging
Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.
Looking
back
on
that
horrible
summer,
I
soon
understood
that
all
succeeding
good things merely offset the bad.
Worse than normal wouldn?t last long. I am owed
and savor the halcyon times. The
reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and
offer
assurance that can thrive. The
50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my
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Royals? recent slump, a field of
struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we
can reap an October harvest.
For that on blistering
summer, the ground moisture was just right,
planting early
allowed
pollination
before
heat
withered
the
tops,
and
the
lack
of
rain
spared
the
standing
corn
from
floods.
That
winter
my
crib
overflowed
with
corn---fat,
healthy
three-to-a-stalk ears filled with
kernels from heel to tip---
while my
neighbors? fields
yielded only brown,
empty husks.
Although
plantings past may have fallen below the
50-percent expectation, and
they
probably will again in the future, I am still
sustained by the crop that flourishes
during the drought.
第十一篇：
What is
Your Recovery Rate?
你的恢复速率是多少？
What is Your Recovery Rate?
What is your recovery rate? How long
does it take you to recover from actions
and behaviors that upset you? Minutes?
Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you
to recover, the more influence that
incident has on your actions, and the less able
you
are to perform to your personal
best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to
recover,
the weaker you are and the
poorer your performance.
You are well aware that you need to
exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt,
accept
that
a
reasonable
measure
of
health
is
the
speed
in
which
your
heart
and
respiratory system
recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you
let go of an issue
that upsets you, the
faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier
you will be. The
best example of this
behavior is found with professional sportspeople.
They know that
the faster they can
forget an incident or missed opportunity and get
on with the game,
the better their
performance. In fact, most measure the time it
takes them to overcome
and forget an
incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate
of 30 seconds is too
long!
Imagine yourself to be an actor in a
play on the stage. Your aim is to play your
part to the best of your ability. You
have been given a script and at the end of each
sentence is a ful stop. Each time you
get to the end of the sentence you start a new one
and although the next sentence is
related to the last it is not affected by it. Your
job is
to deliver each sentence to the
best of your ability.
Don?t
live your life in the past! Learn to live in the
present, to overcome the past.
Stop
the
past
from
influencing
your
daily
life.
Don?t
allow
thoughts
of
the
past
to
reduce
your
personal
best.
Stop
the
past
from
interfering
with
your
life.
Learn
to
recover
quickly.
Remember: Rome
wasn?t built in a day. Reflect on your recovery
rate each day.
Every day before you go
to bed, look at your progress. Don?t lie in bed
saying to you,
“I did that wrong.” “I
should have done better there.”
No.
look at your day and note
when you made
an effort to place a full stop after an incident.
This is a success. You
are taking
control of your life. Remember this is a step by
step process. This is not a
make-over.
You are undertaking real change here. Your aim:
reduce the time spent in
recovery.
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The way forward?
Live in the
present. Not in the precedent.
第十二篇：
Clear Your Mental Space
清理心灵的空间
Clear Your Mental Space
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
with
thoughts?
Or
was
it
paralyzed,
unable
to
think?
The next time you find
yourself in the middle of a very stressful time,
or you feel
angry or
frust
rated, stop. Yes, that?s right,
stop. Whatever you?re doing, stop and sit
for
one
minute.
While
you?re
sitting
there,
completely
immerse
yourself
in
the
negative emotion.
Allow that emotion to consume you.
Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that
emot
ion. Don?t cheat
yourself here. Take the entire
minute
---but only one minute---to
do nothing else but feel that emotion.
When the minute is over,
ask yourself, “Am I wiling to keep holding on to
this
negative emotion as I go through
the rest of the day?”
Once you?ve allowed yourself to be
totally immersed in the emotion and really
fell it, you will be surprised to find
that the emotion clears rather quickly.
If
you
feel
you
need
to
hold
on
to
the
emotion
for
a
little
longer,
that
is
OK.
Allow yourself another
minute to feel the emotion.
When you feel you?ve had enough of the
emotion, ask yourself if you?re willing
to carry that negativity with you for
the rest of the day. If not, take a deep breath.
As
you exhale, release all that
negativity with your breath.
This
exercise
seems
simple---almost
too
simple.
But,
it
is
very
effective.
By
allowing
that
negative
emotion
the
space
to
be
truly
felt,
you
are
dealing
with
the
emotion
rather than stuffing it down and trying not to
feel it. You are actually taking
away
the power of the emotion
by giving it
the space and attention it needs. When
you immerse yourself in the emotion,
and realize that it is only emotion, it loses its
control. You can clear your head and
proceed with your task.
Try it. Next
time you?re
in the middle of a negative
emotion, give yourself the
space to
feel the emotion and see what happens. Keep a
piece of paper with you that
says the
following:
Stop. Immerse
for one minute. Do I want to keep this negativity?
Breath deep,
exhale, release. Move on!
This will remind you of the
steps to the process. Remember; take the time you
need
to
really
immerse
yourself
in
the
emotion.
Then,
when
you
feel
you?ve
felt
it
enough, release it---
really let go of it. You will be surprised at how
quickly you can
move on from a negative
situation and get to what you really want to do!
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第十三篇：
Be Happy
快乐
Be
Happy!
“The days that make
us happy make us wise.”
----John
Masefield
When
I
first read this line by England?s Poet Laureate,
it startled me. What did
Masefield
mean?
Without
thinking
about
it
much,
I
had
always
assumed
that
the
opposite
was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I
could not forget it.
Finally,
I
seemed
to
grasp
his
meaning
and
realized
that
here
was
a
profound
observation. The
wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear
perception, not
fogged by anxiety nor
dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the
blind spots
caused by fear.
Active happiness---not mere
satisfaction or contentment ---often comes
suddenly,
like
an
April
shower
or
the
unfolding
of
a
bud.
Then
you
discover
what
kind
of
wisdom
has
accompanied
it.
The
grass
is
greener;
bird
songs
are
sweeter;
the
shortcomings
of
your
friends
are
more
understandable
and
more
forgivable.
Happiness is
like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your
spiritual vision.
Nor are
the insights of happiness limited to what is near
around you. Unhappy,
with
your thoughts turned in upon
your emotional woes,
your
vision is cut short as
though by a
wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
The long vista is there for the seeing.
The ground at your feet, the world about
you----people,
thoughts,
emotions,
pressures---are
now
fitted
into
the
larger
scene.
Everything assumes a fairer proportion.
And here is the beginning of wisdom.
第十四篇：
The Goodness of life
生命的美好
The Goodness of Life
Though there is much to be concerned
about, there is far, far more for which to
be
thankful.
Though
life?s
goodness
can
at
times
be
overshadowed,
it
is
never
outweighed.
For
every
single
act
that
is
senselessly
destructive,
there
are
thousands
more
small,
quiet
acts
of
love,
kindness
and
compassion.
For
every
person
who
seeks
to
hurt, there are many, many more that
devote their lives to helping and to healing.
There is goodness to life
that cannot be denied.
In
the most magnificent vistas and in the smallest
details, look closely, for that
goodness always comes shining through.
There si no limit to the
goodness of life. It grows more abundant with each
new
encounter.
The
more
you
experience
and
appreciate
the
goodness
of
life,
the
more
there is
to be lived.
Even
when
the
cold
winds
blow
and
the
world
seems
to
be
covered
in
foggy
shadows,
the goodness of life lives on. Open your eyes open
your heart, and you will
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see that
goodness is everywhere.
Though the goodness of life seems at
times to suffer setbacks, it always endures.
For
in
the
darkest
moment
it
becomes
vividly
clear
that
life
is
a
priceless
treasure.
And
so
the
goodness
of
life
is
made
even
stronger
by
the
very
things
that
would
oppose
it.
Time
and
time
again
when
you
feared
it
was
gone
forever
you
found
that
the
goodness of life was
really only a moment away. Around the next corner,
inside every
moment, the goodness of
life is there to surprise and delight you.
Take
a
moment
to
let
the
goodness
of
life
touch
your
spirit
and
calm
your
thoughts. Then, share
your good fortune with another. For the goodness
of life grows
more and more magnificent
each time it is given away.
Though the problems constantly scream
for attention and the conflicts appear to
rage ever stronger, the goodness of
life grows stronger still, quietly, peacefully,
with
more purpose and meaning than ever
before.
第十五篇：
Facing the Enemies
Within
直面内在的敌人
Facing the Enemies Within
We are not born with courage, but
neither are we born with fear. Maybe some of
our fears are brought on by your own
experiences, by what someone has told you, by
what you?ve read in the
pap
ers. Some fears are valid, like
walking alone in a bad part
of town at
two o?clock in the morning. But once you learn to
avoid that situation, you
won?t need to
live in fear of it.
Fears,
even
the
most
basic
ones,
can
totally
destroy
our
ambitions.
Fear
can
destroy fortunes. Fear
can destroy relationships. Fear, if left
unchecked, can destroy
our lives. Fear
is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
Let me tell
you
about five of the other enemies
we face
from within. The first
enemy that
you?ve got to
destroy before it
destroys you is indifference. What a tragic
disease this is!
“Ho
-
hum, let it slide. I?ll
just drift along.” Here?s one problem with
drifting: you can?t drift your way to
the to of the mountain.
The second enemy we face is indecision.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity
and
enterprise.
It
will
steal
your
chances
for
a
better
future.
Take
a
sword
to
this
enemy.
The third enemy inside is
doubt. Sure, there?s room for healthy skepticism.
You
can?t believe everything. But you
also can?t l
et doubt take over. Many
people doubt
the
past,
doubt
the
future,
doubt
each
other,
doubt
the
government,
doubt
the
possibilities
and
doubt
the
opportunities.
Worse
of
all,
they
doubt
themselves.
I?m
telling
you,
doubt
will destroy
your life
and
your chances of success.
It
will empty
both your bank account and your heart.
Doubt is an enemy. Go after it. Get rid of it.
The fourth
enemy
within is
worry. We?ve all got
to
worry some. Just
don?t
let
conquer
you. Instead, let it alarm you. Worry can be
useful. If you step off the curb in
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