我深信一个人要想在这世上留下些什么，不一定非得成为贝多芬或是伦勃朗，或是生儿育女。确切地说，这并非一则信条，也不完全是个人奋斗的目标或许有人觉得是吧？不管怎样，倘若在我...
上帝，他赐予我命运并值得我的一切赞美和服务； 家庭，它给我幸福和力量； 祖国，它为我提供一切机会按照自己的良心生活； 棒球，它是一种娱乐和训练，使我健康，使我懂得生活。 这就...
编者按： 对我同样重要的另一个信仰就是，我的能力在球技中得到了证实。如果我不能投球，那我的名字与声誉都将毫无意义。对我而言，我觉得，任何赞誉之词都是对我付出努力的回报。...
要无所畏惧而不是听天由命。因为你明白，我相信当我满怀诚意，静静等待事情发生时，它们便会发生。这并不是一种消极的状态，而是对自己真正处境的了解。 The Art of Bouncing Back by Joyce Gr...
我相信，人的生命之所以有意义，正是由于其个人树立的目标与他所处的文明、时代和国家之间有着密切的联系。 A New Control Of Destiny Children used to play a game of pointing at someone, suddenly saying, What...
我热爱生命，但我不惧怕死亡。死亡不过是去另一个世界的过渡，就像朋友跨越海洋一样；他们依然活在另一个世界里。我坚信，是死亡教会了我们永生。 About Secrets and Falling Tiles by Carroll Bi...
作为一个人，一种具备身心的有机体，我能学会如何摆脱自负，这样赋予我生命和意识的神的光芒就能驱散阴影，照亮我全身。 Learning to Get Out of the Way In every one of the higher religions there is a st...
The Ugly Duckling One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. Th...
What is your direction indicator of ascended One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As...
At Home in the Savanna My name is Dopal. Im eleven years old and I live in 1)Tanzania, in the heart of the African 2)savanna. Im a Masai. Masais are 3)nomads who travel all over with their animals, looking for 4)pasture. Our most wonderful and valuab...
If you can 1)keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But 2)make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about,...
Lake of Autumn I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in meausre down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be ha...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height to My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of 1)Being and 2)ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everydays Most quiet need, by sun and ca...
Several years ago, Iris Arc Crystal, a company I co-founded with Francesca Patruno, experienced a 1)lull in business. We had recently hired several new employees and hoped that the 2)slowdown was only temporary. However, in the meantime, we had work...
Rachel Carson was a scientist and a bird watcher. She noticed, in the late '50s, the gradual disappearance of some birds, and linked it to our use of 1)pesticides. She wrote a book about her fear that 2)robins would sing no more in future spring time...
