Faced with rising tuition costs and a less than satisfying job market, many would-be college students are ditching their knapsacks and textbooks for rucksacks and guidebooks. But is putting your future on hold for a year of travel the best idea? 去旅...
I was in the Santa Cruz Mountains not long ago, speaking and singing at a women's conference. We were focusing on the theme of loving others in practical ways through our gifts, and something in particular happened during one of the sessions that wil...
From August 1st to August 15th I fasted from complaining. Yes, that's right. No more I'm tired grumbles at 3 p.m. at the office. No more yelling at cars that cut me off on 440. No more snapping at people for not listening. The highlight of the two we...
As a matchmaker, I've seen droves of people fall in love. Occasionally, love comes easy. You meet someone and you just know. Your heart tells you that one day you'll fall in love with them. Most of the time, it isn't exactly that easy. Sometimes, lov...
John Lennon said: When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and...
Gracious giving requires no special talent, nor large amounts of money. It is compounded of the heart and head acting together to achieve the perfect means of expressing our feelings. For, as Emerson explains, The only gift is a portion of thyself.一份...
Theres no rose without a thorn. This thought is absolutely necessary to prepare you to experience less pain and more joy in your journey of life. 人生固然有欢乐，但也一定不乏痛苦。有了这种认识和思想准备也是非常必要的，...
A lot of us are looking to make some positive changes in our life, but we have no idea where to begin. My suggestion is to do something different. 很多人都想给自己的生活做些积极的改变，但我们却不知道从哪里开始。我的建...
As I was driving around today, I heard the song, Cruel Summer by Bananarama. 我今天正开着车四处转，听到了香蕉女郎组合的《无情的夏日》这首歌。 It came out in 1984 during the summer, and I remember the woman I was dating...
Get a Thorough Understanding of Oneself 悟透自己 In all one's lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of. 人生在世，和自己相处最多...
Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point where it may be hard to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice. Jessica H...
I know you -- the heartbroken. I've been there recently, and plenty before. I know you better than you think I do. I know heartbreak as well as I know the taste of the ocean in my tears and the way my breath gets stuck in my heart instead of my throa...
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau迷失自我，才能发现自我。亨利大卫梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者）Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by goin...
I love challenging myself. I like to set a goal that seems difficult or even impossible and then do everything I can to reach that goal. It's not always easy, and sometimes I don't reach the goal -- heck, sometimes I don't come anywhere close to reac...
You're shut down and frightened, the world seems hostile; when you love what is, everything in the world becomes the beloved. Inside and outside always match -- they're reflections of each other. The world is the mirror image of your mind. 当你脑子...
