Life's Balance Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them: work, family, health, friends, and spirit, and you're keeping all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you dr...
COST OF LIVING Your money or your life. The choice traditionally presented by the highwayman is supposed to have only one sensible answer. Money is, after all, no use to a corpse. Yet economists often study something rather like the highwayman's offe...
人生的起伏似乎没有可预知的模式，但是科学家现在发现有一些模式相当明确，绝大多数人都不例外。即使你度过了一些最佳时期，你仍然会在将来经历另外几个最佳时期。某些最佳期时期似...
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They dont act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In th...
Tears goes out of my eyes when I talk to my parents on the phone. What are they doing when I call them, this is what I want to know most. I had supper at 5 oclock in the dining room. There is no need for me to cook by myself, no need to wash the dish...
You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece(or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don't know before you b...
Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of...
伯特兰罗素(Bertrand Russell，1872-1970)是二十世纪英国哲学家、数学家、逻辑学家、历史学家，无神论或者不可知论者，也是上世纪西方最著名、影响最大的学者和和平主义社会活动家之一，1950年...
A Pair of Socks One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen yea...
1.Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. One day the child asked God,They tell me you are going to send me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless? God replied,Among the may angels, I have chosen o...
The past ages of man have all been carefully labelled by anthropologists. Descriptions like Palaeolithic Man. Neolithic Man, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century,...
一只眼睛失明后，我走路总是看地面，不敢抬起头，生怕被人嘲笑。有些时候人们会问我一些尴尬的问题，令我十分伤心，和小伙伴们做游戏时我也总扮演妖怪，我知道我是别人眼中的异类。...
我们这些总有一死的人的命运是多么奇特呀！我们每个人在这个世界上都只作一个短暂的逗留；目的何在，却无所知，尽管有时自以为对此若有所感。但是，不必深思，只要从日常生活就可以...
假如我又回到了童年，我就要事事乐观。生活犹如一面镜子：你朝它笑，它也朝你笑；如果你双眉紧锁，向它投以怀疑的目光，它也将还以你同样的目光。内心的欢乐不仅温暖了欢乐者自己的...
特蕾莎修女在接受诺贝尔和平奖时曾说过：你能为促进世界和平做些什么呢？回家爱你的家人吧。 这是一个平凡的故事，也是一个感人的故事 Freda Bright says, Only in opera do people die of love. It's t...
