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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Were Just Beginning,“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite”I do not know who wrote these words,but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it.We can take the mysterious,hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine,just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.,We are all in the position of the farmer.If we plant a good seed,we reap a good harvest.If our seed is poor and full of weeds,we reap a useless crop.If we plant nothing at all,we harvest nothing at all.,I want the future to be better than the past.I dont want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled.We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.,The past is gone and static.Nothing we can do will change it.The future is before us and dynamic.Everything we do will affect it.Each day brings with it new frontier,in our homes and in our businesses,if we will only recognize them.We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.,Were Just Beginning,1,Life Is Too Short to Be Little,We men are imperfect beings,so conflicts among us are unavoidable.Inevitably,we sometimes feel injured,insulted,or slighted.Perhaps we put our faith in another,and were disappointed;perhaps we felt we deserved ones gratitude,and were denied;perhaps we wished to join our efforts to those of a group,and were rejected.,Such experiences are painful indeed,but is it not foolish to let them occupy our thoughts and precious time?For what does it profit us to dwell on trivial matters?The priceless days must be spent meaningfully,joyfully.How thoughtless to waste the irreplaceable hours reviewing insignificant incidents,bearing a grudge or pitying oneself!Far better to embrace with gratitude the gift of each day to make the most of every moment by filling it with purpose or appreciation.,Consider this thought when next you feel tempted to nurse a grievance:that life is too short to be little!,Life Is Too Short to Be Little,2,人生苦短休计较,我们人类皆是不完美的造物，所以彼此之间必然会起争执。无可避免地，我们有时会觉得受到伤害侮辱或轻视。也许我们曾信任某人却失望了，也许我们曾觉得应该被某人感激却遭拒绝，也许我们曾希望共为某团体打拼，却被屏除在外。,这样的经历的确很痛苦，但任由它们占据我们的思想和宝贵的时间岂不太愚蠢了吗？因为琐碎小事而心烦于我们有何益处呢？宝贵的时光必须过得有意义和快乐。把一去不复回的时间浪费在回顾微不足道的事，怀恨或自怜之上，这样的做法是多么欠思虑啊！带着感恩的心去拥抱上帝所赐的每一天也就是要有目的或心存感激地充分利用每一分每一秒这样的做法才更好。,下次你心生怨言时，想想这一点：“人生苦短休计较！”,人生苦短休计较,3,A Key to Happiness,To help others,you dont have to be an efficient expert in the art;the main thing is the intention.You may be crude and clumsy,wasteful and ineffective,but if you sincerely try to help,you attempt produces nothing but good.The one you are trying to help knows your intention and is strengthened and encouraged by the magic of your sharing.In nearly every case,your simple desire to help,converted into action,produces the good sought.But perhaps the greatest good is the good that you yourself get out of the attempt.Service to others delivers more joy to you than the joy you deliver to them.In doing good,you free yourself from the terrible burden of self;you escape from yourself into a clean world of joy and light.The good you simply try to do,regardless of the outcome,is always a success inside yourself.,Unselfish giving is your most efficient formula for happiness,for you have embraced“,Eternity,”instead of“,Self,”;you have felt“,Life,”,and you are now the world bigger than you were before you began the project.,A Key to Happiness,4,快乐的钥匙,你若想助人，并不一定要在助人的艺术方面猛下功夫，重要的是你有没有一颗助人的心。你或许粗里粗气，笨手笨脚，徒劳又无成效，但若你真心想帮忙，你的努力只会带来善果。你想要帮助的人得知你有心相助时，会因为你共担苦难的魔力而变得坚强而振作起来。你单纯的助人之心每次付诸行动时，几乎都会产生预期的善果。但或许最大的善果却是你从自己努力助人的企图中所得到的善果。服务人群所带给你的快乐要多过你带给人群的快乐。行善时，你便摆脱了以自我为本位的可怕重担，而进入一个充满喜悦及光明的清新世界。你一心想行的善，不论结果如何，在你心中始终就是一种成功。,无私的施舍是获得快乐最有效的法则，因为你拥抱的是“永恒”而非“自我”；你感受到“生命”的存在，而你现在的世界也比你开始行善前还要开阔。,快乐的钥匙,5,Friendship,No young man starting life could have better capital than plenty of friends.They will strengthen his credit,support him in every great effort,and make him what,unaided,he could never be.Friends of the right sort will help him moreto be happy and successfulthan much money or great learning.,Friendship is no one-sided affair.There can be no friendship without reciprocity.One cannot receive all and give nothing,or give all and receive nothing,and expect to experience the joy and fullness of true companionship.,Those who would make friends must cultivate the qualities which are admired and which attract.If you are mean,stingy and selfish,nobody will admire you.You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness;you must be magnanimous and tolerant;you must have positive qualities,for a negative,shrinking,apologizing,roundabout man is despised.You must believe in yourself.If you do not,others will not believe in you.You must look upward and be helpful,cheery,and optimistic.No one will be attracted to a gloomy pessimist.,Friendship,6,友谊,年轻人人生起步最好的资本
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