Consider...YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion...
试想一下……你！一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和

The day my fiancé fell to his death, it started to snow, just like any November day, just like the bottom hadn't fallen out of my world when he freefell off the roof. His body, when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it pile up.One morning, I shuffled

South Korea's top male and female archers capped gold medal performances at the Beijing Olympics by announcing wedding plans just as the games ended, an archery official said on Tuesday.
Park Sung-hyun, 25, who led the women's team to a gold medal and won an individual silver in Beijing, is to marry Park Kyung-mo, 33, who had similar suc

My Dad taught me to never let anyone push me around.
As long as I can remember I have always confronted bullies and stood up for myself. My Dad — I sure miss him— taught me to never let anyone, or anything push me around. He told me that our problems become much worse when you let someone run over you unchecked. I’ve since learned that t

　In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the “unpardonable1.”
　　最近在我执教的一个成人班级里，我干了一件“不可饶恕的”事情。
　　I gave the class homework!
　　我居然给班上的学生布置了一份家庭作业！
　　The assignment was to “go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them.
　　任务是“下周之内要走到你所爱的人面前，告诉他们你爱他。
　　It has to be so

The Olympics are sexy. Paraguayan javelin thrower, Leryn Franco, may be the deadliest beauty at these Games, according to India's IANS News Agency. The athlete is among the most photographed and talked about athletes of the Games so far - and that may not even be for her event.
奥运会也有它性感的一面。据印度亚洲通讯社(IANS)报道,巴拉圭标枪运动员莱琳·弗朗哥可能是这届奥运会中最美艳绝伦的选

When you smile, I smile, that’s the deal.
I will not walk past you and not look you in the eyes and not acknowledge you.
Instead we will pass each other and say hello.
Not with our words, for they are not the same; but with our faces.
I meet you and I see there is good in your eyes, there's passion in your heart a

You are my adversary, but you are not my enemy.
For your resistance gives me strength.
You will give me courage.
Your spirit ennobles me.
And though I aim to defeat you, should I succeed, I will not humiliate you.
Instead, I will honor you.
For without you, I am a lesser man.

One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70, walks into a lawyer’s office. Apparently, they are there to file a divorce. Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story.
    This couple had been quarreling all their 40 over years of marriage nothing ever seems to go right.

There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives.
　　从前,一位富有的商人娶了四个老婆.
　　He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies.
　　他最爱他的小老婆,给她最华丽的衣裳和美味佳肴.
　　He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best.
　　他对她体贴入微、呵护备至,把最好的东西都给了她.
　　He also loved the 3rd w

Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years.　Following her longstanding custom, she'd lean
down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
　　I don't remember when it first started annoying me -- her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for they felt work-worn and ro

奥林匹克是一种精神，一种向上拼搏，努力奋斗的精神，为了奥运梦想，全世界的优秀运动员聚在一起，为追求最高的目标。下面我们一起温习一下奥林匹克的宗旨和口号吧。
1. "Swifter, Higher and Stronger" is one of the Olympic tenets.
“更快、更高、更强”是奥林匹克运动宗旨之一。
2. Environment protection has become a slogan for bidding the Olympic Games.
保护环境已成为申办奥运的一个口号了。
3. The doping is a cancer on the ideal of the Olympic Games.
兴奋剂是奥运会的理想

1、“There is no certainty, only opportunity.” V for Vendetta (2005) – V (Hugo Weaving)
没有一定会怎样，只有可能会怎样。——《V字仇杀队》，V（雨果.威明）
2、“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” Wag the Dog (1997) – Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro)
今天的好计划胜过明天的完美计划。——《摇尾狗》，康拉德.布瑞恩（罗伯特.德.尼罗）
3、“Failur

Many Olympic movies have been made, trying to capture those universal themes of excellence, commitment, and personal sacrifice. The best of the bunch is Chariots of Fire, a fascinating tale of two completely different British runners who compete for gold at the 1924 Olympics. Here are the 11 best movie quotes about the essence of Olympian ideals

Everyone in China is looking forward to the 2008 Olympic Games. Athletes from all over the world will come to Beijing for this competition.
An Olympic athlete must be strong not only in body, but also in mind. They have to train for years to achieve the necessary strength and control over their sports to compete in the Olympics. This req

One windy spring day，I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites，a string kept them in check.
Instead of blowing away with the wind，they arose against it

摘要：
美国社会学家日前公布的一项调查结果显示，无私的爱心和行为很有可能“培育”出美满的婚姻，又或者说，一段好姻缘同样会让人变得更加无私。报告说：“不管两者哪个在先，反正在爱的王国中，无私与幸福似乎是紧紧连在一起的。”
Altruism may breed better marriages, a new study suggests. Or, the data might mean that good marriages make people more altruistic.
    Whatever, altruism and

Long, long ago, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang (Cowhand). His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himself herding cattle and farming. One day, a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and marrie

He lost his arms in an accident that claimed his father's life—who was the main source of support for the family.  Since then，he has had to depend on the arms of his younger brother. For the sake of taking care of him，his younger brother became his shadow，never leaving him alone for years. Except for writing with his toes，he was completely

It seems to me there are two aspects to women.There is the demure and the dauntless.
　　据我看来女人有两种类型，即矜持端庄型和勇敢无畏型。
　　Men have loved to dwell, in fiction at least, on the demure maiden whose inevitable reply is: Oh, yes, if you please, kind sir! The demure maiden, the demure spouse, the demure mother -this is still the ideal. A few

两个朋友结伴穿越沙漠，旅途中二人突然吵了起来，其中一个掴了对方一记耳光。被打的人感到自己受了伤害，但什么也没有说，只是在沙地上写下了这样一句话：“今天我最好的朋友掴了我耳光。他们继续前行，看见到处绿洲，他们正打算在那里洗澡时，刚才被打的人不小心陷入了泥潭，开始深陷，他的朋友救了他。等他几近淹死的边缘苏醒过来后，他在石头上刻下：“今天我最好的朋友救了我的命。”他的朋友问：“为什么我伤你之后，你在沙子上写字，现在却把字刻在石头上？” 他回答道：“当有人伤害了我们，我们应该把它写进沙里，宽恕的风会把仇恨抹去。而当有人为我们做了好事，我们应当把它刻在石头上，没有风可以将它抹去。”
　　The story goes that two friends were

In the past two weeks we have looked at the happiness formula defined by positive psychologist Martin Seligman, where H (happiness) = S (your biological set point for feeling happy) + C (the conditions of your life) + V (the voluntary choices you make). This week we look at the conditions in life that can improve our happiness quotient.
St

We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren‘t old enough and we‘ll be more content when they are. After that we‘ re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.
　　　　我们总是相信，等我们结了婚，生

Today I begin a new life.
Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediority.
Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard,for

There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains all around it. Overhe

No young man believes he will 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 indeed is flown — the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures, for there is no lin

One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen years old came forward. “What can I do for you, sir?” “I wish to buy a pair of socks.” His eyes glowed. There was a

1. Start each day with a kiss--I think this one is not that hard; on the contrary; it can be healthy and nice.
用一个吻迎接新的一天。接吻如此简单，却能令人身心愉悦。
2. Date once a week--May not as often as once a week, let's say every other week or that a date can be inside your home and that you don't have to go somewhere fancy to have it, you get the id

孩子，快抓住妈妈的手
----为汶川地震死去的孩子们而作
                孩子
　　　　　　　  快抓紧妈妈的手
　　　　　　　　去天堂的路
　　　　　　　　太黑了
　　　　　　　　妈妈怕你
　　　　　　　　碰了头
　　　　　　　　快
　　　　　　　　抓紧妈妈的手
　　　　　　　　让妈妈陪你走
            妈

生活是不公平的，要去适应它。
Life is not fair, get used to it.
世界并不会在意你的自尊。这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。
The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. 
You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won"t be a vice presid

All you remember about your child being an infant is the incredible awe you felt about the precious miracle you created. You remember having plenty of time to bestow all your wisdom and knowledge. You thought your child would take all of your advice and make fewer mistakes, and be much smarter than you were. You wished for your child to hurry and g

He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family’s cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake.

AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile.
C．Lowell HarrissSkip 是我在哥伦比亚大学时的一位和善的经济教授，他刚刚庆祝完自

    Attitude is foundational to success. A generous person with a positive attitude will thrive. If you change your attitude, you change your perception, change your actions, and change your life. As every life changes, you change the world. Over at Lorelle On Wordpress she challenges bloggers to create a list of 30 things that ca

I've opened the curtain of my east window here above the computer, and I sit now in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. A little cloud above the neighbor's trees resembles Jimmy Durante's nose for a while, then becomes amorphous as it slips on north. Other clouds follow, big and little and tiny on their march toward whereness. Wisps of th

Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best.
有一天，世界上的五颜六色彼此争吵了起来，每一个颜色都声称自己是最好的。
Green said: "Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen for grass, trees and leaves. Look over the countryside and you will see that I am in th

To a large degree，the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment．Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year，and what may or may not happen tomorrow，the present moment is where you are －－always．
　　Without question，many of us have mastered the neurotic1) art of spending much

I love to have simple ways to improve my life. Everyday is a chance for improving our life, and it’s up to us to best use it. What I want is to have good, balanced progress everyday.
To ensure balance, my favorite way is using the four facets of prosperity: material, spiritual, physical, and social. By achieving material p

1、"生命在他里头，这生命就是人的光。光照在黑暗里，黑暗却不接受光。"(《新约·约翰福音》第1章)
　　What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. "John 1-4,5" 　这是我最经常诵读的一段经文，也是基督教神学思想的核心。这里的"光"指的是耶稣基督，"生命"指的是永生--战胜死亡，获得真理。
　　2、"你们要进窄门，因为引到灭亡，那门是宽的，路是大的，进去的人也多；引到永生，那门是窄的，路是

Some time ago now I came to realize that how we define particular words - success, happiness, love, etc - can have a major impact on the way in which we live our life. One term that I hear thrown around often is “good life”, eg “he lived a good life” . But what is a good life exactly? This term will mean different things to different people, and