每天读一点暖心英文：你是最好的自己

没有想到会这么快看完，很不错，很好看，里面也有很多经典的字句。恰如美文如歌

Just enjoy reading.

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.

While some people are born into loving and caring families, others are born into seemingly impossible environments, but no matter how hard a person' s life, I believe there will always be at least one person who will positively influence and encourage them. For me, that person has been my grandmother.

2022年1月9日 星期日 祝福早安 主日平安 天气大雾 气温零下一度 每天读一点暖心英文——你是最好的自己（汉英对照） 振作起来，开始干吧 Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative [加]D． 迈克尔·雷诺/ D.Michael Reynolds 有些人出生在充满爱和同情心的家庭，而有些人出生在令人难以忍受的环境中。无论一个人的生活多么艰辛，我都相信至少会有一个人积极地影响和鼓励他。对我来说，那个人就是我的祖母。 我能够写出许多人生准则，因为我的祖母（称为“奶奶”会更好一些）逐字逐句地、有目的地把许多准则教给我。然而，她常常在最后说：“孩子，我能把我所知道的和经历过的所有东西都告诉你，但是最终你要对你的选择负责。”在我们的生活中，最终还是要自己做出选择，无论好坏。不做选择，本身就是一种选择。选择的规则会控制一个人，但也会将责任赋予作出选择的人。 我推测一定有这样一种规则：“总是跟一个人在一起，你就会越来越像他。”因为当我和我的祖母在一起时，我就发现我们的想法非常相似（至少我这样认为）。在我14岁那年，我去探望祖母，我在家里惹了麻烦（我认为不是我的错），祖母听我诉说。过了一会儿，她开始劝导我，我就听着。令我惊奇的是，我说出了她想要对我说的话：“您知道的，祖母，无论怎样管教孩子，只要他不明白其中的道理，一切都是徒劳。”她非常高兴在我们讨论之后，我能有自己的见解。我任由祖母对我夸奖了一番。我想她是运用了一个准则：“强调积极，排除消极。”还有《圣经》中的话：“所见即所想。”我认为这是一条真理，因为我的祖母确实当面夸我。 当我感到绝望或是希望落空时，祖母的话就会在我的耳边萦绕：“孩子，内心垮了才是真的垮了。”“心中要永存希望——总会找到答案……如果你去寻找，你就会发现，其实答案就在你心里。”这些准则总结起来就是：“振作起来，开始干吧！” 现在，我们中的许多年轻人，更倾向于以一位有钱人的身份来解决人生中的许多问题。我们总是不想动脑筋来解决自己的问题，但我们一旦这样做了，就会发现一个非常重要而有趣的规则：“年轻人的使命就是好好生活和学习，让明天的世界更美好。” While some people are born into loving and caring families, others are born into seemingly impossible environments, but no matter how hard a person' s life, I believe there will always be at least one person who will positively influence and encourage them. For me, that person has been my grandmother. There are many laws of life that I could write about because my grandmother (better known as “Mamma”) literally and purposefully teaches these laws to me. However, she always ends with, “Son, I can tell you all I know and all I' ve experienced, but ultimately you are responsible for your choices.” Ultimately, we all make our own choices in life—good or bad. Not making a choice is a choice in itself. The law of choice puts one in control, but it also places responsibility on the one making the choice. I guess there must be a law that says you become like those you hang around because when I' m with my mamma, I can see how much we think alike (at least I' d like to think so). We were “visiting” one day when I was about fourteen years old. I had gotten into trouble for something at home (which I' m sure wasn' t my fault), and Mamma listened to me talk and talk. After a while, she began to share with me, and I listened. Then to my surprise, I heard myself say something to her that she might have said to me. I said, “You know, Mamma, no matter how a child is disciplined, it will do no good unless the child receives the correction that is in the discipline.” She was so pleased to hear the insight that after discussing the aspects of what I had discovered on my own. I allowed her to “brag” on me a while. I think she uses the law of “accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative” or as the Bible says in Numbers 14, “what you see is what you get.” I hope that that' s a true law because my mamma sure says wonderful things about me—to me. When I' m feeling hopeless or feelingcompletely frustrated, I hear Mamma' s words “Son, you' re not whipped until you' re whipped inside, ” and “nothing is hopeless—there' s always an answer... If you look for it, you' ll find it inside yourself.” These laws simply say, “Get up and get going! ” Now, most of us teenagers prefer answers to life' s problems in the form of a financially generous person. We don' t always want to use our minds to solve our problems, but when we do, we find a very important and wonderful law that says,“Youth is for living and learning to make tomorrow' s world a better place.” 双色生活 Work and Pleasure [英]温斯顿·伦纳德·斯宾塞·丘吉尔 /Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 想要获得真正的幸福与平安，一个人至少应该有两三种业余爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到了晚年才开始说“我对什么什么感兴趣”是毫无益处的，这样的尝试只会增加精神上的负担。在与自己日常工作无关的某些领域中，一个人可以获得渊博的知识，但他几乎得不到实在的益处或放松。喜欢干什么就干什么是无益的，你得干一行爱一行。广义而言，人类可以分成三个阶层：劳累而死的人、忧虑而死的人和烦恼而死的人。对于那些体力劳动者来说，在经过一周精疲力竭的工作之后，周六下午给他们提供踢足球或打棒球的机会是没有意义的。对于政界人士、专业人士或商人来说，他们已为棘手的事务操劳或烦恼了六天，在周末再请他们为琐事劳神，同样是毫无意义的。 或者可以这么说，理智的、勤奋的、有用的人可以分为两类：第一类，他们的工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；第二类，他们的工作和娱乐是合二为一的。当然，很大一部分人都属于第一类人。他们可以得到相应的补偿。在办公室或工厂里长时间地工作，带给他们的不仅是维持生计的金钱，还带给他们一种渴求娱乐的强烈欲望，哪怕是最简单、最朴实的娱乐方式。命运的宠儿则属于第二类人。他们的生活自然而和谐。在他们看来，工作时间永远不够多，每一天在他们看来都是假期；而当正常的假期到来时，他们总会抱怨他们正在倾心投入的休假被强行中断了。然而，有一些东西对于这两类人来说是十分必要的，那就是变换一下视角，改变一下氛围，努力做一件别的事情。事实上，每隔一段时间，那些把工作看成娱乐的人很可能最需要以某种方式把工作驱赶出他们的大脑。 To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “ I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week' s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend. It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune' s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds. 短暂是时间的真谛 Life Grows in the Soil of Time [德]托马斯·曼/Thomas Mann 短暂是我的信仰，也是我认为最重要的东西。 然而短暂，如生命的消逝，不是非常哀伤的事情吗？不！它正是生命存在的精髓。它赋予了生命价值、尊严和情趣。短暂创造了时间——而“时间正是其本质”。至少，时间是至高的，是最有用的礼物。 时间与所有富有创造力和活力的事物，及每一个达到更高目标的进步息息相关——是的，它甚至等同于这一切。 没有短暂，没有开始与结束、生与死，时间也就不复存在。永恒是毫无意义的停滞，它意味着时间永远没有结束，也永远没有开始，绝对令人乏味。 生命顽强无比。即便如此，它的存在也依赖于一定的条件，正如它有始亦有终。也因如此，我坚信，生命的价值与魅力将会不断地增长。 人同自然界其他事物之间最重要的区别之一就是，人懂得短暂、始与终，所以也了解时间是一种恩赐。

你是怎样的人，你的人生会是怎样，关键在于你如何认识自己，如何规划自己，如何坚持自己。我们每一个人都是独一无二的。加油，做最好的自己！

暖心的小短片，每次都在碎片时间阅读，总有海边散步的感觉，温馨又舒适的小故事时候读起来让人暂且把纷扰的世俗生活隔离开来[可爱]

内心垮了才是真的垮了。心中要永存希望——总会找到答案……如果你去寻找，你就会发现，其实答案就在你心里。振作起来，开始干吧！（用一句话告诉你我看过这本书）

what's life?

品读一篇美文，聆听一番教诲，感受一种态度，收获一种成长。努力学习，好好生活！