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善待自己,做些小改变Be Kind to Yourself for a Change
Doing things differently for a change is as good as a rest. Be kind to yourself, make small changes in your life, and rest in the process:
换个方式做事等于让自己好好休息休息。善待自己,给你的生活做些小小的改变,给自己多一些休息:
You may send yourself some flowers, a card, or buy a small inexpensive gift. Or take a long relaxing walk; reflect on the scenery and environment around you. Bring a CD player to work and softly play classical music in the background while you work on reports, presentations or read the volumes of paperwork you receive each day.
你可以给自己送一些鲜花、一张卡片,或者买一个不贵的小礼物。或者放松地散散步,对你周围的风景和环境进行反思。或者随身携带一台CD唱机,当你写报告、准备陈述词或阅读你每天收到的大量文件时放一些轻松的古典音乐。
You may start writing in a personal journal; record as many positive thoughts, actions —whatever is lovely about you. Or restart your hobbies, or get a new haircut or style. Go all out to do something kind and compassionate* for yourself. Respect yourself; forgive yourself. Choose to move forward instead of remaining stuck in the past or replaying a mistake you made over and over again in your mind. The point is: you must plan to do something kind for yourself, and then stick to that plan. Our lives are much too busy these days to let it fall to chance or when you get around to it. Being kind to yourself will ultimately result in your being kind to others.
你或许可以写一些个人日志,尽可能地记下那些积极的思想、举动——所有你觉得有趣的细节。或者重新拾起你的业余爱好或做一个新发型、换一个新风格。努力去做一些对自己仁慈的事情,体谅自己,尊重自己,原谅自己。选择向前看而不是沉浸于过去或反复地回忆你曾经的错误而不能自拔。关键是:你必须计划做一些善待自己的事情,并且一直坚持你的规划。这些日子里,我们的生活会因着手实现规划而变得更加忙碌。善待自己最终也就是善待别人。
I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best ，and I am not will be days when I must IN THE WORLD constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down，Those such sa despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can slso destroy them， must never relinquish control.
我将明白只有低能者才会江郎才尽，我并非低能者。我必须不断对抗那些企图摧垮我得力量。失望与悲伤一眼就会被识破，而其他许多敌人是不易察觉的，它们往往面带微笑，伸出友谊之手，却随时有可能将我们摧垮。对它们，我们永远不能放松警惕。
And with this new knowledge I will also understand and recognize the moods of him on whom i call， I will make allowances for his anger and irritation of today for he knows not the secret of controlling his can withstand him arrows and insults for now I know that tomorrow he will change and be a joy to approach.
有了这项新本领，我也更能体察别人的情绪变化。我宽容怒气冲冲的人，因为他尚未懂得控制自己的情绪，我可以忍受他的指责和辱骂，因为我知道明天他会改变，重新变得随和。
No longer will I judge a man on one meeting；no longer will i fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate day he will not buy gold chariots for a penny，yet tomorrow he would exchange his home for a knowledge of this secret will be my key to great wealth.
我不再只凭一面之交来判断一个人，也不再因他今日的可恶而明日不给他打电话。今天不肯花一分钱买金蓬马车的人，明天他也许会用全部家当换一颗树苗。知道了这个秘密，我可以获得极大的财富。
Henceforth I will recognize and identify the mystery of moods in all mankind，and in this moment I am prepared to control whatever personality awakes in me each will master my moods through positive action and when I master my moods I will control my destiny.
我从此领悟到人类和我自己情绪变化的奥秘。对于自己千变万化的个性，我不在听之任之，我将积极主动的控制情绪，从而掌握自己的命运。
I will become master of myself.
我将成为自己的主人。
时令进入冬季，老树落叶，小草枯黄，百花凋残，犹如一个人走过充满希望的幼年，经过英姿飒爽的青年，终于到了不再有梦的风烛残年。细雨混在寒风里淅淅沥沥地飘洒着，好像为父亲——一个辛劳了一辈子、*凡而又伟大的老人的离世而潸然泪下。世界浸泡在冰冷的空气里，让人不禁怀念而又感恩温暖的阳光。而此时此刻，看着还未入棺的老父亲躺在冰冷的地下，我很心疼，很担心父亲会不舒服。然而，父亲身上的“老衣”提醒我，父亲已经没有知觉了。我的心里泪雨滂沱。
父亲的眼睛没有闭上……
直到入葬的前一夜开棺辞别父亲，父亲还是睁着双眼。
父亲晚年衣食富足，哥哥们常常回家陪他闲话家常，他的晚年是幸福的。那么，他还有什么不瞑目的呢?我想，一定是为我的荒废学业而遗憾而又为我今后的人生担忧吧。因为在病危时父亲还在提起此事，还在叹息。
父亲望子成龙望女成凤，他既希望我们成为荣宗耀祖的读书人，又希望高文凭高学历带给我们幸福。
哥哥们实现了他的愿望。而我，却让父亲遗憾终生。父亲想了一辈子也没想通……
父亲常常说，我三岁起就喜欢在本子上写写画画，二年级时就会写诗。父亲背诵道：
秋风来到麦田
麦穗金黄一片
秋风回到天边
月儿弯弯如镰
秋风催促
快上刀把儿
快上刀把儿
父亲记得我儿时的很多作文，每次背诵时开心地笑着，好像我仍然是他那个值得骄傲的、充满希望的小女孩儿。而我，只能惭愧地沉默着……
记得父亲给我买了很多文学书集，他后来说，他多么希望那些书铺就我的作家之路。
可是，我的亲爱的老父亲啊，你知道随时背诗文熏陶我，你知道讲励志故事教育我，你知道随时纠正我的错误的言行，却忽略了一个关键问题：那就是没能借鉴孟母择邻而居。
隔壁的叔叔作风不好，和村子里一个女人勾勾搭搭，几次把那疯女人带到家里胡来，被他的女儿们偷看了。他的女儿们都比我大几岁，你可以想像她们受了怎样的影响。父亲啊，你若能知情，禁止我去他们家玩，禁止我和他的女儿玩，那将是我人生中最幸运的事了。你不知道一切，不知道她们怎样描述她们的爸爸的丑行;不知道她们带着我做模仿*的不堪入目的游戏;不知道她们拉着我看琼瑶的小说;你更不知道我晚上还捧着琼瑶的小说看到半夜而白天上课时昏昏欲睡。而我羞于切齿的，就是我被那些卿卿我我的情节迷惑……总而言之，这一切使我的心灵蒙上了灰尘，这与父亲的传统教育冲突了，我自卑，我痛苦，我挣扎，我惶惶不可终日，一个小孩儿居然失眠!
虽然如此，我小学还是优秀学生，但是到了初中，科目多了，仍然不能全身心投入学习的我，成绩再也跟不上了，以至于中考就名落孙山。
面对父亲临终前的遗憾，我说：一个人，谁陪伴了他的成长，谁就注定了他的一生。父亲不理解我在说什么。他只知道他尽力为我们兄妹的健康成长营造了温馨而又书香味浓浓的家庭环境，他只知道他不断学习，努力完善自己，让自己成为我们的第一任称职的“老师”。而他忽略了一点：千里之堤溃于蚁穴啊!
父亲的精心教育使我虽然没能成才却还算*，可是，叔叔女儿的介入，却使我荒废了学业。成长历程谁陪伴，这是一个多么值得重视的问题。
当我看着很多父母忙着自己的事，甚或整天坐在麻将室而把孩子丢在一边，任其自由散漫地玩时，我就想，少年强则*强啊，为人父母有责任教育好自己的孩子啊!而教育之首要：必须关注谁陪伴着孩子的成长历程，应该引导孩子择友而交则伴而玩啊!
Abundance is a Life Style
Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isn’t something you buy now and then or pull down from the cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard.
Abundance is a philosophy; it appears in your physiology, your value system, and carries its own set of beliefs. You walk with it, sleep with it, bath with it, feel with it, and need to maintain and take care of it as well.
Abundance doesn’t always require money. Many people live with all that money can buy yet live empty inside. Abundance begins inside with some main self-ingredients, like love, care, kindness and gentleness, thoughtfulness and compassion. Abundance is a state of being. It radiates outward. It shines like the sun among the many moons in the world.
Being from the brightness of abundance doesn’t allow the darkness to appear or be in the path unless a choice to allow it to. The true state of abundance doesn’t have room for lies or games normally played. The space is too full of abundance. This may be a challenge because we still need to shine for other to see.
Abundance is seeing people for their gifts and not what they lack or could be. Seeing all things for their gifts and not what they lack.
Start by knowing what your abundances are, fill that space with you, and be fully present from that state of being. Your profession of choice is telling you of knowing and possibilities. That is their gift. Consultants and customer service professionals have the ministrative assistants and virtual assistants have an abundance of coordination and time management. Abundance is all around you, and all within. See what it is; love yourself for what it is, not what you’re missing, or what that can be better, but for what it is at this present moment.
Be in a state of abundance of what you already have. I guarantee they are there; it always is buried but there. Breathe them in as if they are the air you breathe because they are yours. Let go of anything that isn’t abundant for the time being. Name the shoe boxes in your closet with your gifts of abundance; pull from them every morning if needed. Know they are there.
Learning to trust in your own abundance is required. When you begin to be within your own space of abundance, whatever you need will appear whenever you need it. That’s just the way the higher powers set this universe up to work. Trust the universal energy. The knowing of it all will humble you to its power yet let the brightness of you shine everywhere it needs to. Just by being from a state of abundance, it is being you.
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富足的生活方式
富足是一种生活方式。它不是你偶尔买来，从架子上拿下来，抹去灰尘用上一两次然后又放回到架子上的东西。
富足是一种哲学，它体现于你的生理机能和价值观之中，并带有自己的一套信仰。无论走路，睡觉，洗澡你都会感受到它，你还要维护并照顾它。
富足并不一定需要金钱。许多人拥有金钱所能买到的一切，但却内心空虚。富足源自内心，其中包含一些重要的自我成分，比如爱，关心，善良和温柔，体贴与同情。富足是一种存在状态，它向处发散，像处于众多星球之间的太阳那样发光发亮。
来自富足的光亮不允许黑暗的出现或存在，除非选择允许它存在。真正的富足不给谎言或通常玩的游戏留有空间，因为富足已经把空间填得太满了。这可能是一个挑战，因为我们仍然需要为了让别人看见而发光。
富足是看到人们的天赋，而不是他的缺陷。所有的事物都要看其天赋而不是缺陷。
从知道自己的富足是什么时开始，填写满空间，全身心投入生活。你的选择已经告诉你。例如：教练能够了解队员并激发其潜力，那是他们的天赋;顾问和客服专业人士通常能够提供很多成功且很具实用性的案例;行政助理和虚拟助理熟识直辖市配合和时间管理的技巧。富足充盈于你的四周以及你的内心。明白富足的内容，爱本色的自己，不要为自己缺少的或是能变得更好的方面爱自己，而是为此时此刻的富足而爱自己。
要处于你已经拥有的事物的富足状态。我保证它们就在那儿，深藏不露却从未远离。将其看成空气，吸入体内，因为它们是你的。放开暂并不富足的东西。把你富足的所有天赋写在橱柜里的鞋盒子上，如果需要就每天早晨拉开橱柜，知道你的天赋都在那儿。
你需要学会信任自己的富足。当你开始处在自己富足的空间之内时，你需要的东西都会在你需要的时刻出现。这就是更高的力量设置这个宇宙动转的方式。要相信宇宙的`能量。知道这一点会让你在其力量面前保持谦卑，但也会让你的光亮闪耀在所有需要的地方。只要处于富足的状态，就是做你自己。
冰红茶Iced tea
There is happiness and sorrow. There is the good and the bad; dark and bright spots .If we can handle adversity, it only strengthens us. We cannot control all the events that happen in our lives, but we can decide how we deal with them.
它包含了幸福与痛苦、正面与负面，黑暗与光明。假如我们能够战胜困境，这反而会增强我们的能力。因为我们不能控制生活中所发生的事情，但却可以决定怎样处理。
Richard Blechnyden wanted to promote Indian tea in the St. Louis World Fair in 1904. It was very hot and no one wanted to sample his tea. Blechnyden saw that all the other iced drinks were doing flourishing business. It dawned on him to make his tea into an iced drink, mix in sugar and sell it. He did and people loved it. That was the introduction of iced tea to the world.
1904年，理查德.布莱尼可顿在圣.路易斯世界商品集市上推广印度的茶叶。但当时天气很热，没人愿意品尝他的茶。布莱克尼顿看到其它冰镇饮料都生意红火，于是想到一个主意-他可以将茶做成冷饮，加上糖再出售。他这样做了，并因此受到了人们的欢迎，于是冰红茶就这样问世了。
When things go wrong ,as they sometimes will, we can react responsibly or resentfully.
事情总会有不顺利的时候，我们可以选择积极地回应或消极地愤愤不平.
Human beings are not like an acorn which has no choice. An acorn cannot decide whether to become a giant tree or to become food for squirrels. Human beings have choices. If nature gives us a lemon, we have a choice: either cry for grace or make lemonade.
人类不同于没有选择的橡树果。一颗橡树果不能决定自己是长成一棵参天大树，还是成为松鼠的食物。而人类是可以选择的。
It's just the same with the financial storm. The crisis is like a lemon, now we have a choice: either cry for bitterness or weather the storm with confidence and courage.
如果大自然给予我们一颗柠檬，那么我们既可以选择哭泣，也可以选择将其做成柠檬汁。
《You Have Only One Life》
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! Dream what you want to dream;go where you want to go;be what you want to be,because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,enough trials to make you strong,enough sorrow to keep you human,enough hope to make you happy? Always put yourself in others’ you feel that it hurts you,it probably hurts the other person, too.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;they just make the most of everything that comes along their lies for those who cry,those who hurt, those who have searched,and those who have tried,for only they can appreciate the importance of people
who have touched their begins with a smile,grows with a kiss and ends with a brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in lifeuntil you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born,you were crying and everyone around you was your life so that when you die,you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Please send this message to those people who mean something to you,to those who have touched your life in one way or another,to those who make you smile when you really need it,to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down,to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their if you don’t, don’t worry,nothing bad will happen to you,you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone’s day with this message.
励志英语小文章-简短励志的英语文章3篇（扩展3）
——励志英语文章3篇
Youth is not a period of life, but a state of mind, not rosy cheeks, red lips and soft knees, but a will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of emotion, a freshness of the source of life. Youth means courage over timidity, and a desire for adventure more than love for ease. This desire often exists in a ratio of In a small young man, only a few years later we grow old by giving up our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, lack of self-confidence distorts the mind and turns the spirit into dust. There is in every human heart the lure of wonder, the never-ending desire for the next step, and the joy of the that lives in you and me, as long as it receives beauty, hope, courage and power from humanity and the infinite Information, as long as you are young when the antenna is down, you can have a radio station, the spirit of which is covered by the snow of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, and then you grow old.
Even if you set up the antenna to catch the waves of optimism, you have the hope of dying young.
中文翻译：
青春不是生命的一段时间，而是一种精神状态，不是红润的脸颊，红润的嘴唇和柔软的膝盖，而是一种意志，一种想象的品质，一种情感的活力，它是生命源泉的新鲜感青春意味着勇气战胜胆怯的气质，对冒险的渴望胜过对安逸的热爱，这种欲望往往存在于一个比一个无名小卒年轻的人身上，仅仅过了几年我们就因放弃理想而变老。岁月也许会使皮肤起皱，但放弃热情会使灵魂起皱担忧、恐惧、缺乏自信会使心灵扭曲，使精神变得灰飞烟灭每一个人心中都有奇迹的，对下一步的永不停息的渴望，以及生活在你我心中的游戏的乐趣，只要它从人类和无限中接收到美丽、希望、勇气和力量的信息，只要你在天线落下时还年轻，你就可以拥有一个无线电台精神被玩世不恭的雪和悲观的冰所覆盖，然后你就变老了，即使你竖起天线，捕捉乐观的电波，你也有希望在年轻时死去。
Human Life a Poem
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 adolescence trying awkwardly to adapt itself to mature society, with its young passions and follies, its ideals and ambitions; then it reaches a manhood of intense activities, profiting from experience and learning more about society and human nature; at middle age, there is a slight easing of tension, a mellowing of character like the ripening of fruit or the mellowing of good wine, and the gradual acquiring of a more tolerant, more cynical and at the same time a kindlier view of life; then In the sunset of our life, the endocrine glands decrease their activity, and if we have a true philosophy of old age and have ordered our life pattern according to it, it is for us the age of peace and security and leisure and contentment; finally, life flickers out and one goes into eternal sleep, never to wake up again.
One should be able to sense the beauty of this rhythm of life, to appreciate, as we do in grand symphonies, its main theme, its strains of conflict and the final resolution. The movements of these cycles are very much the same in a normal life, but the music must be provided by the individual himself. In some souls, the discordant note becomes harsher and harsher and finally overwhelms or submerges the main melody. Sometimes the discordant note gains so much power that the music can no longer go on, and the individual shoots himself with a pistol or jump into a river. But that is because his original leitmotif has been hopelessly over-showed through the lack of a good self-education. Otherwise the normal human life runs to its normal end in kind of dignified movement and procession. There are sometimes in many of us too many staccatos or impetuosos, and because the tempo is wrong, the music is not pleasing to the ear; we might have more of the grand rhythm and majestic tempo o the Ganges, flowing slowly and eternally into the sea.
No one can say that life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season. And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem. Shakespeare has expressed this idea more graphically in his passage about the seven stages of life, and a good many Chinese writers have said about the same thing. It is curious that Shakespeare was never very religious, or very much concerned with religion. I think this was his greatness; he took human life largely as it was, and intruded himself as little upon the general scheme of things as he did upon the characters of his plays. Shakespeare was like Nature itself, and that is the greatest compliment we can pay to a writer or thinker. He merely lived, observed life and went away.
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人生如诗
我以为，从生物学角度看，人的一生恰如诗歌。人生自有其韵律和节奏，自有内在的生成与衰亡。人生始于无邪的童年，经过少年的青涩，带着激情与无知，理想与雄心，笨拙而努力地走向成熟;后来人到壮年，经历渐广，阅人渐多，涉世渐深，收益也渐大;及至中年，人生的紧张得以舒缓，人的性格日渐成熟，如芳馥之果实，如醇美之佳酿，更具容忍之心，处世虽更悲观，但对人生的态度趋于和善;再后来就是人生迟暮，内分泌系统活动减少，若此时吾辈已经悟得老年真谛，并据此安排残年，那生活将和*，宁静，安详而知足;终于，生命之烛摇曳而终熄灭，人开始永恒的长眠，不再醒来。
人们当学会感受生命韵律之美，像听交响乐一样，欣赏其主旋律、激昂的高潮和舒缓的尾声。这些反复的乐章对于我们的生命都大同小异，但个人的乐曲却要自己去谱写。在某些人心中，不和谐音会越来越刺耳，最终竟然能掩盖主曲;有时不和谐音会积蓄巨大的能量，令乐曲不能继续，这时人们或举枪自杀或投河自尽。
这是他最初的主题被无望地遮蔽，只因他缺少自我教育。否则，常人将以体面的运动和进程走向既定的终点。在我们多数人胸中常常会有太多的断奏或强音，那是因为节奏错了，生命的乐曲因此而不再悦耳。我们应该如恒河，学她气势恢弘而豪迈地缓缓流向大海。
人生有童年、少年和老年，谁也不能否认这是一种美好的安排，一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好。人生本无好坏之分，只是各个季节有各自的好处。如若我们持此种生物学的观点，并循着季节去生活，除了狂妄自大的傻瓜和无可救药的理想主义者，谁能说人生不能像诗一般度过呢。莎翁在他的一段话中形象地阐述了人生分七个阶段的观点，很多*作家也说过类似的话。奇怪的是，莎士比亚并不是虔诚的宗xxx，也不怎么关心宗教。我想这正是他的伟大之处，他对人生秉着顺其自然的态度，他对生活之事的干涉和改动很少，正如他对戏剧人物那样。莎翁就像自然一样，这是我们能给作家或思想家的最高褒奖。对人生，他只是一路经历着，观察着，离我们远去了。
励志英语小文章-简短励志的英语文章3篇（扩展4）
——中考励志小文章3篇
时间的价值 The value of time
xxxTime,xxx says the proverb, xxxis moneyxxx. This means that every moment well-spent may put some money into our pockets.
谚语说：“时间就是金钱。”这句话的意思是，一时片刻只要用得有效，都会让我们的口袋增添一些钱。
If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those, who think nothing of wasting time, remember this.
如果我们的时间使用得当，就能生产出有用的和重要的产品，在市场上卖得一定的价钱;或者充实我们的经验，增长我们的才干，待到适当时机我们就能挣得金钱。那些对浪费时间毫不在意的人该记住这一点。
Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of *. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life.
再说，我们的生命无非就是我们的时间，因此浪费时间也就是一种自杀。我们想到死便惊恐不已，因而不惜一切努力、麻烦和费用来保全我们的生命。
But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all.
可是我们对于损失一个小时或一天的时间无动于衷，忘记了我们的生命原本就是我们生活的每一天、每一小时的总和。因此浪费一天或一个小时就是丧失一天或一个小时的.生命。人生短暂，总共不过七八十年。
But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merry-making; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives.
可是将近三分之一的时间必须用睡眠;吃饭也得花去好几年;陆路海上旅游又是几年;再加上娱乐活动的几年，在病床边照看至亲至爱的几年。
Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly wastea single moment of his life.
现在如果从我们的寿命中扣除所有这些岁月，我们将会发现。能受我们支配的有效的工作时间大约仅二三十年而已。谁能记住这一点，谁就不会心甘情愿地浪费他生命的分分秒秒。
All time is precious; but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities.
所有的时间都是宝贵的，而我们的童年和青年时期的光阴比一生中其他阶段更为宝贵。因为只有在这两个阶段我们才能获取知识，增长才干。
If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages.
如果我们让这些生命的早晨时光悄悄溜走，这损失永远也无法弥补。储蓄金钱，产生利息，到时候会翻两三倍;同样，童年和青年时期的宝贵时光，如果使用得当，必将带来不可估量的利益。
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——励志坚强的英语文章3篇
A Lesson Learned at Midnight By James Q. DuPont
午夜的一课 詹姆斯.Q.杜邦
Ever since one midnight, in nineteen hundred and nine, when I first heard my mother crying, I have been groping for beliefs to help me through the rough going and confusions of life. My dad’s voice was low and troubled as he tried to comfort Mother. And in their anguish, they both forgot the nearness of my bedroom. I overheard them. I was only seven then, and while their problem of that time has long since been solved and forgotten, the big discovery I made that night is still right with me: life is not all hearts and flowers; it’s hard and cruel for most of us much of the time. We all have troubles, they just differ in nature, that’s all. And that leads to my first belief.
自1909年的一个午夜第一次听到母亲哭泣以来，我一直寻找信仰帮我度过生活中的艰辛与困惑。父亲安慰母亲时，声音低沉而忧郁。极度的痛苦让他们忘记我的卧室就在附近。我无意中听到了他们的谈话，那时我只有七岁。尽管他们当时的问题如今已经解决也被遗忘，但那一晚的重大发现仍然教导我：生活并不总是充满鲜花和爱情。许多时候生活对于我们大多数人来说艰辛而残酷，我们都有烦恼，只是烦恼的性质不同，仅此而已。这就是我的第一个信念。
I believe the human race is very, very tough—almost impossible to discourage. If it wasn’t, then why do we have such words as “laugh” and “sing” and “music” and “dance”—in the language of all mankind since the beginning of recorded time? This belief makes me downright proud to be a human being.
我相信人类十分坚强，几乎不可能感到灰心沮丧。如若不然，为何有史以来人类所有的语言中都有“欢笑”、“歌唱”、“音乐”和“舞蹈”这样的词呢?这一信念让我无比自豪，因为我是一个人。
Next, I believe there is good and evil in all of us. Thomas Mann comes close to expressing what I’m trying to say with his carefully worded sentence about the “frightfully radical duality” between the brain and the beast in man—in all of us.
其次，我相信我们都有善和恶的一面。托马斯.曼字斟句酌地阐述了人类(我们所有人)身上存在的理智与兽xing这一“极基本的双重性”时，几乎道出了我的观点。
This belief helps me because so long as I remember that there are certain forces of evil ever present in me—and never forget that there is also a divine spark of goodness in me, too—then I find the “score” of my bad mistakes at the end of each day is greatly reduced. “Forewarned of evil, is half the battle against it.” I believe in trying to be charitable, in trying to understand and forgive people, especially in trying to forgive very keen or brilliant people. A man may be a genius, but he can still do things that practically break your heart.
这种信仰让我受益，因为只要记住自己身上一直存在着某些邪恶的力量——但也从未忘记自己身上也有上帝赐予的善良火花——我就会发现每天结束时，错误和悔恨的“得分”大大降低。可见“事先警惕恶行是与之斗争成功的一半”。我相信人要尽量乐善好施，尽量理解和宽恕别人，尤其要宽恕特别敏锐和聪慧的人，因为即使天才也会做出让你伤心的事情。
I believe most if not all of our very finest thoughts and many of our finest deeds must be kept to ourselves alone—at least until after we die. This used confuse me. But now I realize that by their very nature, these finest things we do and cannot talk about are a sort of secret preview of a better life to believe there is no escape from the rule that we must do many, many little things to accomplish even just one big thing. This gives me patience when I need it most.
我相信，即使不是全部，大多数我们提出的最富创见的思想，大多数我们实施的最富成果的行为，都不应让人知道我们提出和实施的——至少要到我们去世之后才能让人知道。这一点过去常让我感到困惑，但如今我明白，我们完成这些最美妙的事情却秘而不宣，实质上是暗地里预见未来更美好的生活。我相信我们必须做许许多多小事才能成就大事，哪怕只一件大事。这一规律无法逃避。这种信仰使我在最需要办大事的时候很耐心。
And then I believe in having the courage to be myself. Or perhaps I should say, to be honest with myself. Sometimes this is practically impossible, but I’m sure I should always try.
还有，我相信要有勇气还自己本色。或许我该说，要对自己实事求是。有时这几乎不可能，但我确信我应该永远努力为之。
Finally, and most important to me, I do believe in God. I’m sure there is a very wise and wonderful Being who designed, constructed, and operates this existence as we mortals know it: this universe with its galaxies and spiral nebulae, its stars and moons and planets and beautiful women, its trees and pearls and deep green moss—and its hopes and prayers for peace.
最后一点，也是对我而言最重要的一点，我深深信仰上帝。我确信有一位非常睿智和神奇的神灵设计、建造并统治这个世界，就像我们凡人所认识的样子：这个宇宙有星群、螺旋型的星云、星星、月亮、行星、美女、树木、珍珠和深绿的苔藓，还有希望和对和*的祈祷。
我懂了I’ve Learned...
I’ve learned ... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
我懂了……世界上最好的课堂在长者的脚下。
I’ve learned ... That being kind is more important than being right.
我懂了……善良比真理更重要。
I’ve learned ... That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the power to help them in some other way.
我懂了……如果无力给予他人帮助就永远为他们祈祷。
I’ve learned ... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
我懂了……有时候,一个人想要的只是一只可靠的手和一颗感知的心。
I’ve learned ... That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular1.
我懂了……每天的小小惊奇让我们的生活如此多姿多彩。
I’ve learned ... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
我懂了……促进自身成长的最简单方法就是与比自己更优秀的人为伴。
I’ve learned ... That the Lord didn’t do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
我懂了……上帝并非一天之内完成了所有的事,我又怎能做得到呢?
I’ve learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
我懂了……如果你想报复某人,只会继续受到此人对自己的伤害。
I’ve learned ... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
我懂了……治愈一切创伤的并非时间,而是爱。
I’ve learned ... That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is needed.
我懂了……最好只在以下两种情况给人以忠告:别人要求时和性命攸关时。
I’ve learned ... That under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
我懂了……在坚硬的外壳下人人都渴求欣赏和关爱。
I’ve learned ... That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
我懂了……每一个与你相遇的人都值得你笑脸相迎。
I’ve learned ... That life is tough, but I’m tougher.
我懂了……生活是艰难的,但我应该更坚强。
I’ve learned ... That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
我懂了……微笑是改善容貌的一种廉价方式。
I’ve learned ... That I can’t choose how I feel, but I can choose what I feel about it.
我懂了……我无法选择我的感觉方式,但我可以选择自己的感受。
I’ve learned ... That everyone wants to live on top of a mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
我懂了……每个人都想高踞山顶,但所有的幸福和成长都存在于爬山的过程之中。
不知什么时候起，很不开心就会不自觉地想到那个地方——一个叫不出名字的地方，我称之为心灵栖息之所。
穿过残垣断壁，进入一条宽宽的水泥路，不算新但很干净整洁的路。佝偻着腰，粗粗地喘着气，但从不停歇，因为不想错失这唯一的可以静听自己呼吸的机会。在半山腰，也有一段很宽很*的路，稀稀落落地站着或坐着些人，有在运动的古稀老人，也有光着身子无忧无虑地在地上嬉戏的孩童，时而不时地发出阵阵纯真的欢笑声。路的尽头有一座亭台，沿着楼梯往下走，是一个三面环山的湖泊。坐在水边的石凳上，放眼望去，一片郁郁葱葱，说不上巍峨或秀丽，但依然美不胜收。微风拂过，湖面泛起阵阵涟漪，在夕阳的余晖下，星光点点。
此情此景，听着自己喜欢的歌，竟然感动得热泪盈眶。“为什么我的眼里总含泪水，因为我对这土地爱得深沉”。或许，对于这片尚且陌生的土地，谈不上爱得深沉，但无疑我是热爱生活的。蓝蓝的天空，白云飘。远处，山涧潺潺的流水声，像调皮的顽童在恣意地敲着琴键，断断续续，若有若无。仰着头，任由泪水汩汩夺眶而出。这个时候，心灵向着青山绿水，无需假装坚强，勇敢地展现最真实的内心。也觉得，经由大自然的洗涤，一切都会归属自然，愉快的和悲伤的。
夜幕降临，起身离去，会有不舍。在下那段很陡的“长坂坡”时，身体的惯性，会控制不住地加速，不由得回想起中考前的那段日子。那时候，学习紧张，在校住读。但每周五晚会回家，还在读小学的弟弟就会骑着他的小自行车去接我。其间，也有一段坡路，现在想来也没有很陡。但那时很害怕，就让弟弟停车。男孩子皮呀，他哪听呢，就咧着嘴笑，还大喊“冲啊”。我就吓得赶紧跳下车来，结果膝盖给蹭破了。回到家，妈妈看着我还在淌血的膝盖大骂。弟弟拿出止血药，说：“姐，下次你不跳，保证好玩。”后来，再下那段坡时，我真没再跳。从往事中回过神来，我也加紧步伐，冲下山坡。当然，也收获了一阵凉爽的风。我要像风一样自由，岁月沧桑，独自承受。
童年如一个无暇的梦，而我的'梦里却有了一块疤，常常疼醒所有的回忆。然后，心被遥远的爱与温暖所湮没。离家几年来，父亲几次在电话里，对我的偏执和不懂事大声责骂，当时觉得不服和委屈。直到现在，真正步入社会，才如梦初醒。而醒后，他的恨铁不成钢，他少有的怒吼，成为我心底最温柔的伤，一次次逼出我的泪来。
次日醒来，太阳依然升起。而我，也要绽放笑容，迎接又一个美好的今天。生活原本就是如此。
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