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1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生）
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。
——Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林）
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。
——Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家约翰逊）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美国作家梭罗）
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
——Albert Einstein（美国科学家爱因斯坦）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法国化学家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
——Voltaire（法国思想家伏尔泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身体之间存在极大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英国批评家散文家哈滋里特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英国作家史蒂文森）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以说成功要靠三件事才能赢得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英国诗人小说家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法国思想家孟德斯鸠）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举的完成困难的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德国剧作家诗人席勒）
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。
——Charles Chaplin（美国演员卓别林）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美国实业家施瓦布）
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon（法国皇帝拿破仑）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
——Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
——Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（爱尔兰总统魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
——G. Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美国散文家雷诺兹）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家和评论家约翰逊）
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev（俄国化学家门捷列耶夫）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
——（La Racheforcauld（法国作家罗切福考尔德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英国小说家萨克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美国诗人斯托达德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
——J.Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
——Norman Douglas（英国作家道格拉斯）
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
——Franklin Roosevelt（美国总统罗斯福）
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
——Mark Twain（美国作家马克？吐温）
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。
——George Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
——Ibsen（挪威剧作家易卜生）
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的'方向；
没有方向，就没有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰）
37、Ideal are like the stars ——- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，
但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美国政治家舒尔茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。
——R. Peters（美国法学家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
——Mark Twain（马克 吐温）
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.爱略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里穆尔）
43、Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
如果仅仅就变化论变化，则只是变动不羁，倏忽即逝；这是低能的表现，真正了解变化在于把握住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标。
——John Dewey 约翰·杜威
44、Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。
——John F.Kennedy 约翰·弗·肯尼迪
45、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
天才悄无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成。
——Goethe 歌德
46、With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。
——Joseph Roux 约瑟夫·鲁
47、If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
假如我们想让孩子在某个方面有所改变，我们应首先检验一下，看看我们自己是否最好在这一方面变一变。
——Jung 荣格
48、The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
你能留给孩子的最好财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路。
——Isadora Duncan 伊莎多拉·邓肯
49、Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
人最大的优点是尽可能多地驾驭外部环境，尽可能少地让环境约束自己。
——Goethe 歌德
50、Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。
——Janet Erskine Stuart 珍尼特·厄斯金·斯图亚特
51、Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永远学不到什么东西，原因在于他们什么都理解得太快。
——Alexander Pope 亚历山大·蒲柏
52、To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
要正确地思考，我们须领悟别人的意思；想知道自己见解的价值，我们须检验它们对别人有何影响。
——William Hazlitt 威廉·黑兹利特
53、No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
没有人是完全孤立的岛屿，每人都是构成大陆的一小块。
——John Donne 约翰·邓恩
54、No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
没有人能让社会服从个人的意志。倘若他想寻求符合心意的社会，也必须服务于它。
——Emerson 爱默生
55、Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
习惯做假是小人的特点，但常常是某人做假遮住了一个污点，却在另一处露了马脚。
——La Rochefoucauld 拉罗什福科
56、Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。
——Mark Twain 马克·吐温
57、The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。
——伊索
58、What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
哲学的首要任务是什么？是同自负决裂。因为任何人都不可能着手去学自以为已经掌握的东西。
——Epictetus 爱比克泰德
59、Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
不惜一切代价夺取胜利，不畏任何恐怖夺取胜利。不论道路多么漫长，多么崎岖，一定要夺取胜利！因为没有胜利就不能生存。
——Sir Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔
60、The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.
胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方。
——Emerson 爱默生
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。
