Get a thorough understanding of oneself   In all one's lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precise...

  Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearin...

  Black English 黑人英语 The black couple already had eight children, and Lula May was pregnant with her ninth. Finally she convinced her husband to get a vasectomy. ...

  Love 爱情 Sir Thomas Browne 托马斯·布朗爵士 I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. 我爱你，不是因为你是一个...

  What Do Angels Look Like? 天使是什么样子？ They are— 天使就像— Like the little old lady who returned your wallet yesterday. 那个昨天捡到钱包并把它...

  美文原文 Too Dear for the Whistle When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went at once to a shop where they...

Dear Seth, [1] You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can‘t read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I‘ve be...

The True Nobility   By Ernest Hemingway In a calm sea every man is a pilot. But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the...

Spring Thaw   Every April I am beset by the same concern-that spring might not occur this year. The landscape looks forsaken, with hills, sky and forest forming a single gray...

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will f...