Trying New Things尝试新事物
Trying New Things… Risk and Reward
尝试新事物……风险和回报并存
When we try new things,
当我们尝试新事物的时候，
there is always the...
大学生校园网
Trying New Things… Risk and Reward
尝试新事物……风险和回报并存
When we try new things,
当我们尝试新事物的时候，
there is always the...
Dear Arizona,
亲爱的亚利桑那：
My brother is so lucky. Good stuff is always happening to him. Do you believe in luck? And if so, how can I get more of it?...
When I read a book from my mother’s shelves, it’s not unusual to come across a gap in the text. A paragraph, or maybe just a sentence, has been slic...
To write or not to write
拿起笔还是放下
Writing is not easy. I do it everyday.
写作非常不容易。我每天都在写作。
And I can tell you, it’s quite a...
Happiness is a journey
幸福是个过程
We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frust...
Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point whe...
We often close ourselves off when traumatic events happen in our lives; instead of letting the world soften us, we let it drive us deeper into ourselves. We try...
In the busy city life, there are many people who are always busy with work. These people revolve their lives around their jobs, these people sacrifice all their...
Truly happy and successful people get that way by becoming the best, most genuine version of themselves they can be. Not on the outside--on the inside. It's...
Love Is Not Like Merchandise
爱情不是商品
A reader in Florida, apparently bruised by some personal experience, writes in to complain, "If I steal a nickel&#...
A Ball to Roll Around
滚球
by Robert G Allman
罗伯特·G·奥尔曼
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a frei...
Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to commit to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it maybe, from the back or fro...
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.- Eric Hoffer
世界上最难的算术题是如何清点我们的祝福。
According to legend,...
My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the su...
Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals;...
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own. ...
Are You Ignoring That Little Thought
你在忽略那些小想法吗？
What happened to that brilliant idea that you once had? Did you ignore it because you thought th...
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
在一生有多少这样的时刻：我们对一...
Man's youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he never comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is th...
Think Positive Thoughts Every Day
积极地看待生活
If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need, sometimes a...
Try to Remember the Good Things
多想想美好的事情
When times become difficult (and you know they sometimes will), remember a moment in your life that was fi...
What will matter?
什么才重要？
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the thi...
Five Balls of Life
生命中的五个球
In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation...
A Lesson for Living
生活的一课
"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you carry on, one day something good...
行如其人
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in Oklahoma City. My friend and proud father Bobby Lewis was taking his two little boys to play miniature golf. He...
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.Ta...
WriteYourOwnLife
书写你的生命
Supposesomeonegaveyouapen—asealed,solid-coloredpen.Youcouldn’tseehowmuchinkithad.
假设有人给了你一枝笔，一枝密封...
“对半理论”？！生活中有苦就有乐，有悲就有喜；乐极生悲，否极泰来大概就是这个道理。无论遇到什么事，都请保持一颗平常心。
I believe in the "50-percent...
Weall,atonetimeoranother,havepretendedtobearockstar,singinganddancingalongtoourfavoritesong.Mostofushavedonethisintheprivacyofourownroomwhenwewerekidsandasadult...
“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...
舍得舍得，有舍才有得；人生亦是如此。一条路走不通，适时的转个弯，或许会更加精彩；也许，我们舍不得自己付出的时间和精力，但塞翁失马，焉知非福，有时候需要勇敢的放下...
什么是爱，又有多少人真正懂爱；零期待的爱，又有多少人能做到。只能说，如果真爱对方，多点给予，少点索取；多点包容，少点要求。
I once had a friend who grew to be...
Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided togo for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house.
几年前的一个炎炎夏...
Blow-off vision of the rain, so that you are left with a brilliant rainbow.Shuttle time in my fingers, without any regrets, open stemmed bloom ripples. Blunt ro...
承诺自己
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all y...