The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less.
我们这个时代在历史上的说法就是我们拥有更高的建筑,但是有更暴的脾气;我们拥有更宽阔的高速公路,却有更狭隘的观点;我们花费得更多,拥有得却更少;我们购买得更多却享受得更少。
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
我们的房子越来越大,家庭却越来越小;便利越来越多,时间却越来越少;学位越来越多,感觉却越来越少;知识越来越多,观点却越来越少;专家越来越多,问题也越来越多;药物越来越多,健康却越来越少。
We drink too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
我们喝得太多,花钱大手大脚,笑得太少,开车太快,易怒,熬夜,赖床,书读得越来越少,电视看得越来越多,却很少向上帝祈祷。
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.
我们常常夸夸其谈,却很少付出爱伏皮心,且常常心中充满了仇恨。我们学会了如何谋生,而不知如何生活。我们延长了生命的期限,而不是生活的期限。
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space; we’ve done larger things, but not better things.
我们登锋友上了月球,并成功返回,却不能穿过街道去拜访新邻居。我们已经征服了太空,却征服不了自己的内心;我们的事业越做越大,但质量却没有提高。
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less; we plan more, but accomplish less.
我们清洁了空气,却污染了灵魂;我们分离了原子,却无法驱除我们的偏见;我们写得更多,学到的却更少;我们的计划更多,完成的却更少。
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but, lower morals.
我们学会了奔跑,却忘记了如何等待;我们的收入越来越高,道银厅槐德水平却越来越低。
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we’ve become long on quantity, but short on quality.
我们制造了更多的计算机来存储更多的信息,制造了最多的副本,却减少了交流;我们开始渴望数量,但忽视了质量。
These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but more broken homes.
这个时代有双收入,但也有了更高的离婚率;有更华丽的房屋,却有更多破碎的家庭。
These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. Where are we heading...?
这个时代有了快速旅游,免洗尿布,却抛弃了道德、一夜情、超重的身体,以及可以从快乐中走向静止和自杀的药物。我们将走向何方……?
If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
如果我们明天就死掉,我们为之工作的公司可能会在一天内很轻易地找人代替我们的位置。但是当我们离开家人后,他们的余生将会在失落中度过。
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family an unwise investment indeed.
考虑一下吧,我们将自己的时间更多地投入到工作中,而放弃与家人在一起的时光,实在并非明智之举。
So what is the morale of the story?
那么这则故事的主旨是什么呢?
Don’t work too hard... and you know what’s the full word of family?
不要工作得太辛苦,你知道家的全称吗?
FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER, (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU.
家=爸爸妈妈,我爱你们。
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
无论是60岁还是16岁,你需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心、中世老永不熄灭的孩提般求知的渴望和追求事业成功的欢乐与热情。在你我的心底,有一座无线电台,它能在多长时间里接收到人间万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、鼓舞和力量的信息,你就会年轻多长时间。
An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
人的生命应当像河流,开始是涓涓细流卖升,受两岸的限制而十分狭窄,尔后奔腾咆哮,翻过危岩,飞越瀑布,河面渐渐开阔,河岸也随之向两边隐去,最后水流平缓,森森无际,汇入大海之中,个人就这样毫无痛苦地消失了。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.
青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气概和摈弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个20岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老不仅仅返冲是岁月流逝所致,更主要的是不思进取的结果。
Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
光阴可以在颜面上留下印记,而热情之火的熄灭则在心灵上刻下皱纹。烦恼、恐惧、缺乏自信会扭曲人的灵魂,并将青春化为灰烬。
自信的成功
自信,它被无数人喊在嘴边;自信,它造就了无数历史名人;自信,它使人们感到快乐,使人们感到幸福。
“天生我材必有用,千金散尽还复来”当李白因得罪扬贵妃而被放逐时,他曾这样勉励自己。自信使李白拥有了坚韧的毅力,虽然他的抱负没有实现,但他却成了名垂青史的大诗人。
当司马迁受以宫刑之后,是自信使他将《史记》这一鸿图大作写了出来。如果没有自信,就不会有一本完整的《史记》留于人世,司马迁也不可能成为一个伟人。
没有自信,刘邦也不可能成就大业,建立汉朝。没有自信,刘丛模邦可能只是一位小小的亭长,而不会是后来的汉高祖。
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回望昨天,历史因自信而创造了伟人。回首今日,自信依然为我们铸造着新的伟人。
可是,伟人是伟人,我们是我们。
当我们遇到一丁点的学习困难时,我们可曾想过挑战自己吗?当我们遇到挫折时,我们可曾想过历史上的伟人遭受的挫折比我们多?
伟人不一定是我们要达到的目标,可是伟人身上的自信却是我们必须学习的渗源缓。自信是我们成功的基础。如果失败是成功之母,那么自信就是成功的基石。
我们都拥有美丽的梦想,然而梦想的实现是需要自信作为阶梯的。自信可以使我们实现梦想,而挑战自我更是自信的源泉,如果我们拥有自信,那么成功通过挑战自我是有望得到的。
挑战自我它可以使我们获得更多的自信、勇气和快乐。当我们拥有这些东西的时候,我们便会明白困难并非坏事,他也可以使我们坚强起来,当我们遇到挫折时,自信就可以使我们变得更坚韧。
自信使人们明白,遇到困难和挫折时,我们不应该气馁、灰心丧气而是应当笑对他们,想裂嫌办法去解决。
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自信使我们快乐,自信使我们敢于挑战自我,自信使我们获得快乐,自信使我们拥有勇气。
自信是我们必不可少的人生品质!自信是我们的指路明灯!自信是我们成功的基石!
Self-confidence, it is many people are crying in the mouth; self-confidence, which has created numerous famous historical figures; self-confidence, it makes people feel happy, make people happy.
"There must be a natural material I use, is also re-daughter cleared to" When Li Bai Yang Royal was due to offend exile, he had encouraged his. Self-confidence to Li Bai have patience, though his ambition is not achieved, but he became a great poet of all times.
When Sima Qian Gong Xing followed by the order, is confident that he would "Historical Records" written out in this brilliant masterpiece. If there is no self-confidence, there would be a complete "Historical Records" stay in this world, Sima Qian is also unlikely to become a great man.
There is no self-confidence, and succeed Liu could not establish the Han Dynasty. Lack self-confidence, Liu Ting Zhang may only be a small, but not the later Han emperor.
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Looking back on yesterday, history has created a great man because of self-confidence. Looking back today, we are confident it will still be a great man with a new cast.
However, the great man is a great man, and we are us.
When we encounter a little bit of learning difficulties, we may have occurred to challenge yourself? When we encounter setbacks, we may have occurred in the history of great men suffered more setbacks than we are?
Great men are not necessarily our goal to be achieved, but the great body of the self-confidence is we have to learn. Self-confidence is the foundation of our success. If the failure is the mother of success, then the self-confidence is the cornerstone of our success.
We all have a beautiful dream, but the realization of dreams is the need self-confidence as a ladder. Self-confidence allows us to achieve our dreams, but to challenge themselves and the source of more self-confidence, if we have self-confidence, then successfully passed the challenge of the self is expected to get.
Challenge yourself that it allows us to get more confidence, courage and joy. When we have these things, we will understand the difficulties are not a bad thing, he allows us to pull ourselves together and when we encounter setbacks, self-confidence can make us more resilient.
Self-confidence so that people understand that the difficulties and setbacks, we should not be discouraged, frustrated but should laugh at them, and think of ways to resolve.
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Self-confidence so that we happy, self-confidence so that we dare to challenge themselves, and self-confidence so that we get happy, self-confidence so that we have the courage.
Self-confidence is essential to our quality of life! Self-confidence is our guiding light! Self-confidence is the cornerstone of our success!
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