Setting my resolutions for Chinese New Year
With the Year of the Snake practically upon us, and with the solar New Year fast fading into distant memory, I have been ruminating（反刍，沉思） over the habit that so many people have of making new year resolutions ... and then breaking t
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What New Challenge are You Going to Take This Year?
If you want to grow, you need to expand your personal capacity. It's an important topic that deserves constant reminder. Expanding your personal capacity is essential for your personal growth. It will take you the next level in life. It wi
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对青春常在的感想
No young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother's, and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indee
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Free Minds and Hearts
At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion, when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. This is organized major league baseball,
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Learn to live with curly hair
For years I grappled and fought with the bird's nest that sat on top of my head - my Medusa mane, a composition of frizz（卷发） and giant ringlets（小圈） that in no way could be tamed. Growing up in a Russian-Jewish home with parents who
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The Woman In My Life
The woman in my life catches me when I've fallenAnd holds me like a baby when I'm hurt.No matter how high I climbShe guides me safely back to earth. And she's there when I need her,My guardian angel,In the dark I can see herHere by my side
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The Year of Wandering
Between the preparation and the work, the apprenticeship（学徒期） and the actual dealing with a task or an art, there comes, in the experience of many young men, a period of uncertainty and wandering which is often misunderstood and counte
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Learning: A Lifelong Career
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual
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Conquer Fear
To conquer one's fears, one must see past them. To fear is natural; to see past them is heroic. Fear is normal additive to life, symbolizing that there are new, sometimes extraordinary things to come, to face. To be able to see these things
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Clear Your Mental Space
Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion -- like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to t
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Attitude
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than wha
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Heaven on Earth
If you woke pup this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agon（苦恼） of tortu
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Digging
DiggingSeamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; as snug as a gun.Under my window a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravelly ground:My father, digging. I look downTill his straining rump among the flow
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Heart of a stranger
The most loved place, for me, in this country has in fact been many places. It has changed throughout the years, as I and my circumstances have changed. I haven't really lost any of the best places from the past, though. I may no longer inh
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Shakespeare
Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, un
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I have as much soul as you
"I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? A machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my li
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An Open Heart
My aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart ailment. Aunt Edith doesn't accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in the library and found
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必须亲身经历才能体会的道理 上
Life is Hard When you're a teenager, you're just at the beginning of your life's lessons. Life is the toughest teacher you will ever have. “Life is a cruel teacher. She gives the test first, then the lesson.” Life will throw everything t
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Gap years
The idea of spending a year away from home is something that appeals to nearly everyone. So why is taking a gap year still considered the wildcard? For a teenage student, the prospect of providing for yourself, miles away from home, can be
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《人生七年》告诉我们的5条人生法则
Relationships matter -- a lot. "At 56, for people who put energy into families, there was a big payback," said Michael Apted. Again and again, the "Up" series reveals how critical friends, family, and social connections are to an indiv
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