Dear Seth, Youre only three years old, and at this point in your life you can't read, much less understand what Im going to try to tell you in this letter. But I've been thinking a lot about the life that you have ahead of you, about my life so far a...
Often we're told that we have to suffer now give up what we want in order to succeed later, that in order to save we must sacrifice. Give up instant gratification to get delayed gratification. But you can do both. For years, I was confused about this...
I happened to chance upon this poem a while ago when I was checking my email. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep is a poem largely considered to be written by Mary Elizabeth Frye (1904-2004), but of disputed origin. Of course the reason I am sharing t...
In order to experience everlasting love in life, you ought to first figure out what is missing in your life and then fill in the gaps. People fall in and out of love because they expect their lovers to be everything to them and do everything for them...
Olympic Athletes Everyone in China is looking forward to the 2008 Olympic Games. Athletes from all over the world will come to Beijing for this competition. An Olympic athlete must be strong not only in body, but also in mind. They have to train for...
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. As Graduation Day approached, the y...
To this day I remember my mum's letters. It all started in December 1941. Every night she sat at the big table in the kitchen and wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been drafted that summer. We had not heard from him since the Japanese attacked Pear...
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.- Eleanor Roosevelt We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of oursel...
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about[几乎] everything with since the first day of kindergarten[幼儿园], spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to the fe...
At age 89, Mary Fasano graduated with a bachelor s degree from the Extension School last week and entered the history books as the oldest person to earn an undergraduate degree at Harvard. Following is the speech she delivered -- The Power of Knowled...
You don't actually have to take the quiz. Just read this straight through, and you'll get the point (an awesome one) it is trying to make! Take this quiz: 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners....
Today, when I awoke, I suddenly realized that this is the best day of my life, ever! There were times when I wondered if I would make it to today; but I did! And because I did I'm going to celebrate! Today, I'm going to celebrate what an unbelievable...
I believe, for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows... I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, A candle glows... 我相信，每个雨滴飘落 就有一朵花儿生长 我相信，即使最漆黑的夜晚 也会有蜡烛发出明亮的...
Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have. That's one good reason why he's your boss. This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world. Not by theoretical English professors, but by practical, hard-headed scholars who have bee...
I was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a fuss about an old copse which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters to the local paper, even to a national, protesting about a projected by-pass to her village, and, looking at a map, th...
