Eliminate Internal Negative Chatter
The first step is one of awareness. It will be hard to make a change to positive thinking without being acutely intimate with the thoughts that run through your mind. Recently, I was amazed to discover deep buried emotions from negative thoughts that I had for fewer than 10 minutes. Without awareness, I would have carried the hurt and anger inside. Awareness helped me to bring them out to the open for me to deal with.
Undoubtedly it will not be easy to make a switch if you have a long history or negative self talk. Your talk became negative over the years due to various factors. For instance, if your first grade teacher repeatedly told you that you were "stupid", you might believe it to be truly the case. You would find that your inner chatter would often be filled with talk of "I am so slow" and "it is so hard to learn". If you constantly tell yourself such negative stories, your actions are going to reflect your low self esteem. It will be difficult to get very far if you are always putting yourself down.
A common negative talk involves telling yourself "I can’t". When you say to yourself "I can’t" or "it is too difficult", you are creating a resistance. Having such a mental block will prevent you from achieving a task you could otherwise succeed at.
Anytime you catch yourself saying "I can’t…", turn around and challenge your own claim with, "Why can’t I?" Research shows that most geniuses became the people they are also because of the hard work they put in. So if you would like to be successful, you need to start saying "I can" a lot more.
A great method that I have also found useful is to say "Cancel Cancel" each time I find myself saying something negative, whether in the mind or verbally. The method works if you sincerely have the intent of becoming a positive thinker.
英语文章摘抄（二）
positive Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements of a desired outcome or goal. They are usually short, believable and focused. By repeating them over and over again, you build inroads into your subconscious mind, opening up the possibility of a new state of thoughts.
An important step when repeating affirmations is that you need to read your affirmations aloud with feeling. The mere reading of the words bears no consequence unless you put some emotions behind them. Of significant fact is that your subconscious mind takes any orders given in complete faith and after repeated self talk. So the daily practice of repeating affirmations is important.
Initially you may be skepticism toward the statement of your positive affirmation. However, if you follow this simple set of instructions your skepticism will soon give way to a new set of beliefs and then crystallized into absolute faith.
英语文章摘抄（三）
positive Scripts
One thing that you may observe is on how easy it is for your mind to build negative thought upon negative thought. The chatter not only does not stop but it spins a drama that traps and limits you.
From now on, regularly do this exercise instead. Spin an uplifting story that runs like a movie script. Some visualization will be helpful. You build on a story with a positive outline. The longer you can tell this story to yourself the better. It is also best if you can make this story one about having all your goals achieved. When you do this, you start to internalize your goals and dreams, as if they are something that you have already achieved.
英语文章摘抄（四）
Replace Negative Influences with positive Ones
It is important that you identify external negative factors in your life which may be holding your thoughts hostage. For instance, your mental state can become toxic by being around friends who are negative. If you are not vigilant enough, you will start to adopt their thoughts as your own. Hence, be alert to what your negative influences are. If they come from certain friends, limit your exposure to them as much as you can. Refrain from discussing your plans with people who will be unsupportive of your dreams and goals.
Instead surround yourself with thoughts and actions from people who will empower you.
From being uninspired and de-motivated, you will begin to feel uplifted and driven to greater self growth. The positive energy that they vibrate will start affecting the self talk that you engage in as well.
英语文章摘抄（五）
Present Tense Messages
You may find yourself daunted by the many things you need to do in order to reach your goals. It just seems overwhelming to become the success that you secretly desire for. Your mind gets caught up in an endless stream of worry.
What may be helpful is to concentrate on steps you can take in the present. If you find yourself becoming stuck, stop and say, "What can I do right now?" Change your internal talk from a future anxiety ridden one to one that is about the more manageable present. You cannot control what will happen in the future but you can take the necessary steps now that will build a better tomorrow. Taking the necessary steps require you to focus your thoughts and inner talk on Now.
英语文章摘抄（六）
Confront Fears
Fear is often what holds you back from your success. You are scared of taking chances because you fear losing the security that you enjoy now. You try to convince yourself that you are happy in your current state when in fact, you are not. Your self talk may sound positive in your attempt to lie to yourself. But somehow, there is an inner knowing that you are short changing yourself.
Ask yourself what you are afraid of. What can be the worst that can happen? Take a step-by-step approach in breaking down your fears and see if there is any way round to looking at things more positively. When you confront your fears, you will often realize that the worst case scenario is not as bad as you think. In fact, the benefits of change are worth the risk. Your inner talk begins to change at this point.
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英语美文摘抄（一）
When Love Beckons You
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
But if, in your fear, you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
爱的召唤
当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险峻。当爱的羽翼拥抱你时，请顺从她，尽管隐藏在其羽翼之下的剑可能会伤到你。当爱向你诉说时，请相信她，尽管她的声音可能破你的梦想，就如北风吹落花园里所有的花瓣。
爱会给你戴上桂冠，也会折磨你。爱会助你成长，也会给你修枝。爱会上升到枝头，抚爱你在阳光下颤动力的嫩枝，也会下潜至根部，撼动力你紧抓泥土的根基。
但是，如果你在恐惧之中只想寻求爱的平和与快乐，那你就最好掩盖真实的自我，避开爱的考验，进入不分季节的世界，在那里你将欢笑，但并非开怀大笑，将哭泣，但并非尽情地哭。爱只将自己付出，也只得到自己。爱一无所有，也不会为谁所有，因为爱本身就已自足。
爱除啦实现自我别无他求。但是如果你爱而又不得不有所求，那就请期望：
将自己融化并像流的溪水一般向夜晚吟唱自己优美的曲调。
明啦过的温柔所带来的苦痛。
被自己对爱的理解所伤害；
并情愿快乐地悲伤。
在黎明带着轻快的心醒来并感谢又一个有家的日子；
在黄昏怀着感恩之心回家；
然后为内心所爱之人祈祷，吟唱赞美之歌，并带着祷告和歌声入眠。
英语美文摘抄（二）
Be Happy!
“The days that make us happy make us wise.”----John Masefield
when I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true.
But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.
Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind spots caused by fear.
Active happiness---not mere satisfaction or contentment ---often comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud.
Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it. The grass is greener; bird songs are sweeter; the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable.
Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall.
Happy, the wall crumbles.
The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene.
Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.
“快乐的日子使人睿智。”
——约翰·梅斯菲尔德
第一次读到英国桂冠诗人梅斯菲尔德的这行诗时，我感到十分震惊。他想表达什么意思？我以前从未对此仔细考虑，总是认定这行诗反过来才正确。但他冷静而又胸有成竹的表达引起啦我的注意，令我无法忘怀。
终于，我似乎领会啦他的意思并意识到这行诗意义深远。快乐带来的.睿智存在于敏锐的洞察力之间，不会因忧虑而含混迷惑，也不会因绝望和厌倦而黯然模糊，更不会因恐惧而造成盲点。
积极的快乐 – 并非单纯的满意或知足 – 通常不期而至，就像四月里突然下起的春雨，或是花蕾的突然绽放。然后，你就会发觉与快乐结伴而来的究竟是种智慧。草地更为青翠，鸟吟更为甜美，朋友的缺点也变得更能让人理解，宽容。快乐就像是一副眼镜，可以矫正你的精神视力。
快乐的视野并不限于你周围的事物。当你不快乐时，你的思维陷入情感上的悲哀，你的眼界就像是被一道墙给阻隔啦，而当你快乐时，这道墙就会砰然倒塌。
你的眼界变得为宽广。你脚下的大地，你身边的世界，包括人，思想，情感和压力，现在都融入啦更为广阔的景象之中，其间每件事物 的比例都更加合理。而这就是睿智的起始。
英语美文摘抄（三）
The Goodness of Life
Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life’s goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed.
For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thousands more small, quiet acts of love, kindness and compassion.
For every person who seeks to hurt, there are many, many more who devote their lives to helping and to healing.
There is goodness to life that cannot be denied.
In the most magnificent vistas and in the smallest details, look closely, for that goodness always comes shining through.
There si no limit to the goodness of life. It grows more abundant with each new encounter. The more you experience and appreciate the goodness of life, the more there is to be lived.
Even when the cold winds blow and the world seems to be cov ered in foggy shadows, the goodness of life lives on. Open your eyes, open your heart, and you will see that goodness is everywhere.
Though the goodness of life seems at times to suffer setbacks, it always endures. For in the darkest moment it becomes vividly clear that life is a priceless treasure.
And so the goodness of life is made even stronger by the very things that would oppose it.
Time and time again when you feared it was gone forever you found that the goodness of life was really only a moment away.
Around the next corner, inside every moment, the goodness of life is there to surprise and delight you.
Take a moment to let the goodness of life touch your spirit and calm your thoughts. Then, share your good fortune with another.
For the goodness of life grows more and more magnificent each time it is given away.
Though the problems constantly scream for attention and the conflicts appear to rage ever stronger, the goodness of life grows stronger still, quietly, peacefully, with more purpose and meaning than ever before.
生命的美好
尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的事要多得多。尽管生命的美好有时被蒙上阴影，但它却永远不会被埋没。
相对于每一个无谓的破坏行为而言，都有更多数千计更为微小的，包含着爱，友善和同情的举动静静地上演着。相对于每一个试图伤害他人的人而言，都有更多的人致于帮助他人，治愈他人的创伤。
生命的美好不能否认。
在最为壮观的前景和最为琐碎的细节中，请仔细观察，因为美好的事物总是散发着耀眼的光芒闪亮登场。
生命的美好没有界限。每一次相遇都会使这美好变得越发丰富。你经历得越多，越能欣赏生命的美好，生命中的美好就会变得越多。
即使当寒风袭来，整个世界似乎被雾气掩盖之时，生命的美好仍会存在。睁开双眼，打开心扉，你就会发现这美好无处不在。
尽管生命的美好有时似乎遭受挫折，但它总会挺过来。因为，在最黑暗的时刻，有一点变得格外清楚，那就是，生命是无价的财富。因此，下正是与生命的美好相对立事物使其越强大。
无数次地，当你担心这美好已经远离之时，你会发现命的美好其实只与你相隔须臾。它就在下一角落，存在于每个时刻之间，等着给你惊喜。
花些时间让生命的美好感动自己的灵魂，放松自己的思绪。然后，把你的幸运与他人分享。因为生命的美好会在每次给予之间变得越来越壮观。
尽管总是有问题让你去关注，冲突也似乎愈演愈烈，但生命的美好却总是静静地，平和地，带着比以往更强的意志和更多的价值变得更加强大。
1、 "I may not be the best, but I'm definitely not like the rest.也许我不是最好的，但我一定是最特别的。"
2、 "I love you, have no purpose. Just love you.我爱你，没有什么目的。就是爱你。"
3、 "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equivalent or greater benefit.每一次不幸、每一次失败、每一次心痛都会孕育同样或更大的成功。"
4、 Don’t let your dreams be dreams.不要让你的梦想只是想想而已。
5、 "Be what you want to be, not what others want to see.做你自己想做的，而不是别人想看到的。"
6、 "Life is always let us was black and blue all over, but afterwards, the injured local will become our most strong place. 生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方一定会变成我们最强壮的地方。"
7、 The best decisions are made without thinking.最好的决定，往往是不假思索的那一个。
8、 "The less you worry about what people think, the less complicated life becomes.你越不在乎别人的看法，生活就会变得越简单。"
9、 Those that have gone won’t come back again. Those coming back are no longer perfect.过去的不再回来，回来的不再完美。
10、 Good day gives you joy while bad day gives you experience. So never regret every single day of your life!美好的日子给你带来快乐，阴暗的日子给你带来经验。所以，不要对生命中的任何一天怀有遗憾。
11、 I started missing you as soon as we said goodbye.刚说了再见，就开始想念。
12、 "It’s time to figure out who I’m supposed to be, to find my place in the world.是时候去搞清楚自己的角色，去找到自己在这个世界的.位置了。"
13、 "I may not have the cutest eyes, prettiest smile, gorgeous face, or perfect body, but I do have a caring heart.我也许没有最可爱的眼睛，最甜美的笑容，最美丽的脸庞，或者最完美的身材，但，我有一颗最爱你的心。"
14、 The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You’ve just got to find the ones worth suffering for.事实上，每个人都会伤害到你。你只是要找个值得你甘心被TA伤的人。
15、 I figure life is a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you’re going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.我觉得生命是一份礼物，我不想浪费它，你不会知道下一手牌会是什么，要学会接受生活。
16、 Heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.心痛是上天的庇佑。这是上天用他的方式让你意识到他从错误的人手里将你救赎。
17、 "Love is like playing the piano. –first you must learn to play by the rules, and then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.谈恋爱就像弹钢琴。首先你得规范地去学，然后你必须忘掉那些规则，用心去弹。"
18、 A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难朋友才是真朋友。
19、 A friend is a second self.朋友是另一个我。
20、 "Never give up on something you really want. It's difficult to wait, but worse to regret.决不放弃自己真正想要的东西。等待很难受，但后悔更煎熬。"
21、 Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.有时候，透过别人的眼睛才能完全看清自己。
22、 "Life doesn't have to be perfect, but to be wonderful.人生不必完美，却必须精彩。"
23、 Sometimes you need to walk alone just to show that you can .有时候，有些路，得自己来走，证明自己能搞得定。
24、 "As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't.当我们长大后，信任变得很难。不是我们不想相信，而是太多事发生以后，我们无法相信。"
25、 "In the end you'll see who's fake, who's true and who would risk it all just for you.到最后，你总会明白，谁是虚心假意，谁是真心实意，谁为了你不顾一切。"
26、 "If you aren't good enough for someone, they aren't good enough for you.如果对于别人你不是“足够好”的人，那么他们对于你也不是“足够好”的人。"
27、 "Don't forget what to do and where to go you have promised yourself,no matter how difficult or far it is.别忘了答应自己要做的事情，别忘了答应自己要去的地方，无论有多难，有多远。"
28、 "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。"
29、 "The colour of a sad, sad haunted, sadness and me company.泛着忧伤的色彩，悲伤萦绕，忧伤和我作伴。"
30、 I was waiting for your attention till my heart says no.等待你的关心，等到我关上了心。
31、 I’m tired of people who judge me without knowing my history.我讨厌那些不了解我，却对我指手画脚的人。
32、 "The world without you, unable to continue.没有你的世界 ，无法继续。"
33、 "Happy, stop, rain, you turn and later in fall.快乐，停止了，雨滴，在你转身以后落下。"
34、 "Everyone has a sad, want to hide but he who denies all confesses all.每个人都有一段悲伤，想隐藏却欲盖弥彰。"
35、 If this is not the end if I still love you.如果这不是结局如果我还爱你。
36、 "Everyone has a sad, want to hide but he who denies all confesses all.每个人都有一段悲伤，想隐藏却欲盖弥彰。"
37、 And the fear in the heart with obtained after the betrayal.最怕在用了心之后得到的是背叛。
38、 Determined to be tired heartless indifference.有心才会累，无心者无所谓。
39、 "Without you by my side, I will be better off than you.没有你在我身边，我会比你过得更好。"
40、 "And then deep memory, also has forgotten the day.再深的记忆，也有淡忘的一天。"
41、 My world does not need too many people to understand.我的世界不需要太多人懂。
42、 The course of true love never did run smooth.真诚的爱情之路永不会是平坦的。
43、 "A ray of sunshine, outline for you my all memory.一缕阳光，勾勒出我对你所有的记忆 。"
44、 Touch the air once again miss you breath.用手触摸空气，再一次怀念你的气息。
45、 "It is because of heart bottom touch that empty, so he just so painful.就是因为触碰到心底的那一点空，所以才会那么痛。"
46、 "Got to lose, is always better than never gets no more cuts.得到了再失去，总是比从来就没有得到更伤人。"
47、 "I love you, love can not my world without you.我爱你，爱到我的世界不能没有你。"
48、 Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle生命不止，奋斗不息。 -- 卡莱尔
49、 "One thing I know,that is I know nothing.(Socrates Greek)我所知道的一件事就是我一无所知。(苏格拉底 古希腊)"
50、 One's real value first lies in to what degree and what sense he set himself.(Einstein Germany)一个人的真正价值首先决定于他在什么程度上和在什么意义上从自我解放出来。(爱因斯坦 德国)
51、 I can make it through the rain. I can stand up once again on my own.我可以穿越云雨，也可以东山再起。
52、 "It's great to be great,but it's greater to be human.成为伟人固然伟大，但成为真正的人更加伟大。"
53、 "I am a slow walker,but I never walk backwards. (Abraham.Lincoln America)我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。(亚伯拉罕.林肯美国)"
54、 While there is life there is hope.一息若存，希望不灭。
55、 A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J. Barrymore)只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。(巴里摩尔)
