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February 25 When You are OldWilliam Butler YeatsWHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead, And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
当你老了，头白了，睡思昏沉， January 24 Peace of MindPeace of Mind. This is the gift that God reserves for His special protégés. Talent and beauty He gives to many. Wealth is commonplace, fame not rare. But peace of mind—that is His final guerdon of approval, the fondest sign of His love. He bestows it charily. Most men are never blessed with it; others wait all their lives—yes, far into advanced age—for this gift to descend upon them.
I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Slowly, painfully, I have learned that peace of mind may transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal park an imprisoning nutshell.
January 22 改英文名了以前叫LIZZY,是因为很喜欢PRIDE AND PREJUDICE里的LIZZY,大名叫ELIZABETH;小说里LIZZY是她爸爸的最爱,因为她很不仅美丽脱俗,而且还很富于智慧,不象她的其他姐妹在BEAUTY 和WISE两者中总不能兼得!还有就是LIZZY的ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH DARCY,A HANDSOME BUT PRIDE MAN WITH SOME PREJUDICE IN HIS CHARACTERISTIC,BUT STILL OVERWHELMING CHARMING AND THEN BEING MOVED BY THE ACCOMPLISHED AND KIND-HEARTED LIZZY. SO I'VE EVER DREAMED THAT I WOULD MEET MY PRINCE-CHARMING ,MY DARCY! STUPID,ISN'T IT?
另一个原因是,LIZZY 跟LAZY长得瞒像双胞胎的,所以我就告戒自己,LIZZY,DON'T BE LAZY!似乎还有点小用,嘿嘿!
可是有人提意见了,说LIZZY这个音很难发标准,尤其是我们这一带L\N不分的,想想自己读这个音时还要多多注意呢!于是虽然很舍不得,但还是下定决心改了!EMMA 也是小说中的一个很可爱的人物,以前读过简写本,很长时间了,印象最深的是她也是一个非常NICE的小姑娘!继续走我的TO BE NICE路线吧,呵呵!
就叫EMMA了,不改了,呵呵! 故地重游 怀着一种交错的心情回到曾经停留了四年的校园，在紧张的考试之余，感到了更多的关怀与温暖，真得很幸福！
感谢小胖和汤汤，为了帮我定到学校里的房间一定费了不少劲，真感谢娟娟的那一碗汤，让我们认识了你们这群可爱而善良的朋友！
感谢琰，大头,娟娟，花花，心心，David，etc.可爱的同学们, 那天晚上你们陆续发来的短信把我的心烘得暖暖的,好感动!
还要感谢那位一同经历的"战友"!那天晚上在宴春吃饭时在我对面拿着小纸条埋头背书后来被我给"吓"跑的原来就是你,没想到第二天考场上又见了,还坐我前面,后来发现你就是上次坐我后面的那位GUY,GOD的安排真有意思!Anyway,每场开始前你会很自然得回过头来说声"加油",给原本紧绷的心情增添了不少活力.谢谢你,也祝愿你能梦想成真!
琰问回来有没有一种亲切感?我说当然有:二号楼的教室依旧如故(我所在考场的对面就是我们当初呆得最久,回忆最多的考研自习教室哎), 广玉兰的包子\食堂的糖醋小排\宴春的牛肉拉面还是那么好吃,通往学校专家楼的那条林荫道还是那么地安静祥和. 琰问走在这条路上是不是很有感觉?我说是的,便想起第一次来这个学校时就走的这条路!去她们研究生宿舍遇到魏娟娟\王芳她们几个保研的同学,感觉就像是放完了长假回来一样,亲切如故!
学校也有一些很大的变化!在公交车上一路看来,新造了好多房子,校门看样子也要改了!唉,以后学生会越来越少,这么多房子住得完吗?也许他们有自己的想法吧! 经过汽车学院的大楼,一个醒目的红色大展板立在那里,啊,校长\副校长\党委书记都换了!副校长叫李萍萍,听上去很像是女强人,不过也许是MAN也说不定!琰她们平时已经在给大外的上英语课了,由当初的学生转变成现在的兼职老师感觉一定很不错!
考完很多人都问我考得怎么样?怎么说呢?SOSO吧!好象我每次感觉自己发挥得很好的时候,结果都不怎么样!感觉很不好的时候,有时还并非就那么糟!上外的竞争如此激烈,很多人都不是第一次考的了,面对这么多主观与客观因素,还能说什么呢?只能是SOSO了!当然,还是要乐观点,接下来多练练口语&PRESENTATION,还要练字,无论有没有面试机会,多学点总归是好的.知识就是力量嘛!呵呵!
长期紧绷的弦突然松下来很不习惯,人还是有压力好!不过想想我的同学们都已经在工作岗位上开始他们新的角色了,我如果整天消极等待,悠哉悠哉是不是很不象话啦?不行,要振作起来,认真地开始新的生活!相信,有渴望\有追求\有坚持,就一定会有成功的! 我还是很有毅力的,呵呵,稍稍自恋一下!
(完了,发现自己对中文越来越陌生了,看来以后要多多努力学语文了,呵呵)
The Temporary TerminalA long long journey has reached a temporary terminal! Happy or not? It's only can be judged by the one himself!
It's true that this experience is a combination of joys and regrets, reliefs and nervousness, smoothness and challenges. In another word, this is a competition belonging to the real soldiers who fear no visible and invisible enemies ahead, bravely accept both gentle breeze and fierce storms, and strongly face up with the possible success and failure. Thanks to the strength of character of myself, I can have such an opportunity to rejoice myself on the battlefield beamed with the shining sweats and sweet blood, which have guided us to a deeper insight of life! Smiles and Tears there have become an important part of the fortuneness of our life, an unforgetable one!
At the temporary terminal, a complex feeling bursted into my mind, too complicated to describe them in words one by one!In a simple word, thanks very much for the great ecoutagement, confidence, and warmth given by my family, my sweet classmates, and my dear friends, and best wishes to all the lovely fellows on the same way with me to SISU! God will bless all of us!
January 15 Self-talkingNearly 5 months stuty has left a unremovable impression in my heart, which I believe will turn to be an unmeasurable treasure, accompanying me forever!
In the telephone, Betty asked me whether u had felt some proffesional progress u'd made. "Sure," I replied," It's objective rule that every effort one's made will pay off, although I can't make sure of the approaching examination." Actually, no only has the change of my knowledge accumulation happened, but also the inner world of my heart has to some degree underwent some change, which cannot only be defined to be the better or worse, but a kind of unspeakable and untreasurable experience.
Except the dinner time and the occational out-walking, I've spent most of my time by myself, in my little world, during the past 5 months. In another words, from the beginning of the period, I've begun to seek for the happiness of being alone with the spirit of Thoreau and his masterpiece __Warden River! Being alone is a very strange and mysterious situation, which has long been the topic of people: some appraise it as the best gift which will endow u with great energy to seek for the excellence while some abhor it as the most terrible enemy of human beings. Both have their reasonalbe grounds I think, and as for me, I incline to defining it as both the friend and foe, who will bring people both treasure and lost, depending on how one will deal with it!
Maybe I'm not qualified enough to be a winner in the struggle against the loneliness, but by no means I've been reduced to be a loser, for the reason that I've indeed tasted the sweet from the pains of being alone! Very sweety!
Living by oneself, one will be endowed with a complete quiet world where u're the master in real sense, thinking, talking, dancing and singing without any disturbance from the outside world, among which the most treasurable one for me is that one can have the opportunity to listen to the beating of his own heart and dive into the ocean of his own heart to seek for the long-time percitated memory, the truest and purest feelings at the bottom of it.
Fortunately, I've got it, but unfortunately, I have to remove it from the bottom of my heart forever!
That's good, I think! At least, that means something new will come to replenish it in the future,near or far!
In these days, I have to thank most to my most loyal male, my soul male__the music, which is powerful enough to bring every lost child from the bottom of abyss, no matter how deep it is, the heartwarming light of hope! Maybe that is the amazing grace God has endowed to the mankind!
But above all, one should keep a positive attitude and progrssive mind in the long long journey,'cause God only help those who help themselves! God you made the world all wrong( 巴黎圣母院）God you made the world all wrong January 13 The furthest distance, 世界上最远的距离 -- 泰戈尔 The furthest distance in the world Is not between life and death But when I stand in front of you Yet you don’t know that I love you The furthest distance in the world Is not when I stand in font of you Yet you can’t see my love But when undoubtedly knowing the love from both Yet cannot Be together The furthest distance in the world Is not being apart while being in love But when plainly can not resist the yearning Yet pretending You have never been in my heart , The furthest distance in the world Is not pretending that you have never been in love But using one’s indifferent heart To dig an uncrossable river For the one who loves you ---------------------------------------------------- 世界上最遥远的距离，不是生与死 而是我就站在你的面前，你却不知道我爱你 世界上最遥远的距离，不是我站在你面前，你却不知道我爱你 而是明明知道彼此相爱，却不能在一起 世界上最遥远的距离，不是明明知道彼此相爱，却不能在一起 而是明明无法抵挡这股想念，却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你放在心里 世界上最遥远的距离，不是明明无法抵挡这股想念却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你放在心里 而是用自己冷漠的心 对爱你的人 掘了一条无法跨越的沟渠 When Sensibility Met SenseThere is nothing more appropriate than the capricious weather to be compared to the unpredictable changing of mood.At one time the world of u is completely teemed with the warm sunshine which brings in so much hopes and joys. However, without any signal, the dark cloud may aggressively take up the whole blue sky with the unremittingly lighting and anthundering,and then comes the pouring rain plundering away all the traces of sunshine!
Nevertheless, with the rapid advancing of the satellite, the level of weather forcast has been on its fast way to be more timely and accurate, which has ,plus or minus, helped people to know more about the wayward child and do the utmost to control him, Undoubtedly, development has also happened in our way of recognizing ourselves in favour of conroling our emotions and disciplining our behaviour better, although it's indeed not an easy task, specifically, almost a hard spiritual odyssey!
So, what will u do when attacked by an unexpectant strange sensibility due to disturb ur mind and confine u into an tumultuous state where most of ur mind is dominated by the strong feeling, almost making u cazy? Seemingly it's time to take out our universally-acknowledged weapon __the sense! The sense, however, sometimes will lose its power! Certainly, it's not so difficult to foresee the coming of drizzle, heavy rain, storm and snow, even the fierce typhoon. But what about the ominous tsunami, earthquake or even the eruption of volcano? They always lurk in without being noticed by the most suble instrument available, so does the uppermost bad weather in mankinds' mood, which come to take over ur mind overwheling, leaving no chance for u to have a breathe. And what u can do maybe is just waiting, waiting, waitng, until the end of the struggle between the sense and sensibility!
Time to sleep! Luckily, every time I was in such a suffocating and suffering situiation, sense was always the winner, or u would have to find me in heaven.  January 11 Sleepless Night!It's not easy for me to turn my biological clock from the way of the night-owel to the early bird!
And last night , I suffered the pains of insominia. In the deep darkness and depression, I tried to snatch every straw whichwill help to save me ,like a lost child fallen to the bottom of the abyss.Turning over again and again, some fantastic ideas kept hanging over in my head ,as if torrents tumbling violently to suffocate and toss my soul into pieces. The clock clicked 1a.m."My endeavour would be futile if I can't fall into sleep before 2 a.m."I said to myself!
However, what treathened me was that what would I do if I were also in such a situation at the night before the examination, actually which also happened to me in my past experiences:
The night before TEM4:That was a slight insominia. Went to sleep at 11:oo, but then turned over and over until !2:00 when I eventually can't wait to resort to some measurements: Get up and go to the restroom. Surprisingly, after my rescuring action, one by one, my roommates also followed suit, seemingly like touch and go! Lied down agian, deep breathing and reliveing, unconsicouly I went to my sound sleep! Survive!
The night before the Test of Andcanced Interpretation: A little more severe one! Before going to sleep, I caculated the time well to have a smal cup of milk which is said to assure a sound sleeping, because too early the effect will be not so good, while being too late will make my sleeping interrupted by going to the restroom. Lying on the not so comfortable cheap-hotel bed, I closed my eyes praying to God: please let me go to sleep quickly, please, please! Fortunately, this time it did work. Nevertheless, what was whispering to my ears? What was biting my face? Mosquito, the disgusting and terrible mosquito, eventually successflly pull me out from my God-endowned sleep! How evil they were! How strongly I hated them! It seemed that my roommate also sufferring the attacks from the evil creature! Got up and Called the service woman who then broungt in the mosquito coil incense! Then under the cover of previously disturbed emotion, the cursing of the mosquito and the bad smoke, I agian set off my travel to the dreamland! Suffering!
The night before the Test of Intermediate Interpretation: with the suggestion of one of my roommates, I took in a black tablet which is used for the bad cold and has somehow proper help to sleeping! Actually it was not so powerful, but at least it will serve well to set my mind at ease, which , I belive, is the main reason of insominia. That night, when darkness had completely descended on the earthy world, intermittent siren sweeping away the outside road, nosiy TV programme and men's talking outside the door, I lay crowded with Xinxin on the small bed for the joining of another classmate of us, but confidently go to sleep quickly! This time God gave me a drop of dew, saying: drink it, and everything will be ok! It's indeed that everytings went well then!Lucky!
The night before the TEM8! Another slight insominia! It had been 12 plus ! "What can I do?" I ask ed myself in worry. I'd tried every way: counting the sheep1,2,3-------100----180----200---Damit! In desperation, I called to my father, who is more a nightowel than me! "Count the sheep, count the sheep!" , he adivised. Nonsense! However, I had another try of counting, and this time it surprising worked! Bingo!
At the night of the approaching examination, please descend the bliss to ur children, ur devout children, Amen!
January 10 Blue, blue, blueThe earthquake and the consequential cut-off of MSN made me find that I've developed some special feeling to this blue backgound, which seemingly has become the companion of my heart, especially when I need to pour someting out form the messed mind. Maybe it's because the blue world, although sullen and to some degree dismay, will be prone to bring people to the deeper serenity where one can wind down and think over something quietly!
Bi Shuming has ever said that we should commit out good moods to paper, thereby when we're blue, these lively and cheerful words will help relieve the mind gripped by the pains. However, in my condition, I found I have far more blue words than the rejoced in my dictionary. I'd like to write something down in depression, and maybe it's the only outlet of the spasm of the thwarted emotion for me! Anyway, it's better than nothing,hehe!
My thinking has just flied to my last graduate admission examination: when I finished the comprehensive English test , specifically when I'd just finished the writing task, I felt I was a bit confused by the present world, having no idea of when it was and thinking it was rainy outside, untile I stand up and look out of the window, finding that the land was wetless and
no flowers of umberllar flying in the sky, which, indeed, had just appeared in my composition. A small writing and a big one; a rainy day outside the mind and the other inside.
Many people are seemingly apt to feel blue in the rainy days, so am I! When the warming sunshine was covered tightly by the clouds, the dark side of the world would descend to the earthy world and our mind. And at such a very time, we bemone reduced to the delicate state, facing the possible attack of the moster, the incarnation of every enemies of human beings, including the most terrible one--loneliness!
For a long time, I'd underweighted the power of loneliness and believed it only belonged to those who have nothing to do. With the passing time, however, I have begun to shoulder more and more responsibility , come to face up with more and more challenge , and tasted more and more pains of frustration by myself, then I eventually began to understand the weight of the familiar word-lonliness.
In my underdtanding, there are 3 levels of lonliness:
1 Although in a solitary state, however, one is enjoying the special benefits it has brought in__the quietness .
2 Although the solitariness has insinuated in one's mind, however, one may feel dull and boring but no pains, and can easily resume oneself maybe just by a shift of activity.
3 The highest rank: one is feeling lonely, not because he's alone without others' companion, but because he's missing somebody who even doesn't know u're missing her! That's the most terrible pains, the mental torture!
There's an illusion in my heart, which has tortured me for a long time. Maybe I should say it in a more opstismic way : there's an illusion in my heart, which has brough me much happiness,because God has told us the pains is just the resources of great happiness!
What's the illusion? A secret , hehe!
Zhang Ailing said: what a female has spent her lifetime on thinking about, talking about, love and hate is her Mr Right, specifically her soul male!
God's favoured children are not those who are in the holy bond as strong as the steel, but those who are in the unseperable bond with his soul-male, even if sometimes the string between them is too tiny to visible!
I've said too much, haven't I? Hehe, feel better now!
January 05 We are blessed in 2007 转载
By Bryan Without a trace,2006 is gone, leaving best wishes in 2007.
December 26 Pearls in Words
Say Something to Myself1 When I felt a bit lost, I used to come to the Internet to seek for some comfort and courage;although sometimes it really works: after reading some enlightening words, the mind would to some degree be opened to something new,like the filling of some new energy,however, the odds of such fortunateness is too small. Now I come to realize that nobody but yourself can save u!
2 The approaching examination has plus or minus impelled the generation of worry, the terrible worry from imagimation, in my mind. I must curb the demon into death, or I'll be burned into ashes by the fierce flame of it!
3 Life is just once for everyone, and I'm also not out of this fate. So, treat it well! Listen more to ur own heart, which has sometimes cried out painfully, protesting against the cruel way u've treated it. Oh, dear, u'll be punished in a more cruel way by insisting ur inhuman style, so, give way to the objective rule, my dear, for only in this way, u'll be set free in the real sense.
4 Believe youself! Then with the unshatterable confidence, u can make well use of every minute by putting them into the most important things, and make the achievement beyond ur imagination! So,trust me and trust u! The Phylosophy From Baltimore在喧闹而奔忙的世界中平静地往前走，这是多么和平、安宁！你要与周围所有的人友好相处，尽可能不要放弃这种努力和追求。你要轻轻但却要清晰地说出自己的真实思想，并且耐心倾听别人含糊甚至烦人的想法，因为每个人都有他们自己的故事。你要远远避开那些吵闹、具有侵略性的人，他们会使你的精神苦恼。如果你将自己与他人作比，那么你将变得既自负又痛苦，因为这世上永远有着比你强和比你弱的人们。你该享受你自己的成就和计划，保持对你自己的事业的兴趣，它们不管多么细琐、低下，都是你在变化多端的时代能真正拥有的财产。在商业事务中你要小心谨慎，这世上到处都有阴谋和欺骗。你也不要让自己对美德视而不见，世界上很多人为了崇高的理想在忍饥挨饿，生活中到处都有英雄主义存在，你对你自己要诚实，尤其不要无情装有情，对爱情不要玩世不恭，在这干旱、没有希望的土地上，它是一片四季常青的绿洲。你要认真吸取流水年华的经验，从容地向青春时光告别，你要培养自己的精神力量，以抗衡突如其来的不幸的打击。但你千万不要用想象使自己苦恼、忧伤，有很多恐惧产生于疲劳和孤独，除去有益于身心健康的原则之外，你要善待你自己，你和树木、星星一样是这茫茫宇宙的一分子，你有权力生活在这里，毫无疑问这世界已经完全为你打开，不管你于这点是不是很明白，所以你要与上帝和平相处，不论你觉得他身在何方，也不论你作出何种努力、有什么渴望，在喧闹、混杂的生活中，你应该与你的心灵和平相处，尽管这世上有很多假冒和欺骗，有很多单调乏味的工作和众多破灭的梦幻，它仍然是一个美好的世界。记住：你应该努力去追求幸福。 December 25 We Wish U A Merry Christmas and Happy New YearRecently, I found myself apt to be moved by something and some people. This afternoon I recieved the Christmas wishes from my best friend on campus, simple but bringing some special warmth to my heart:
I open my wallet, find no money;
I open my pocket,find no coin;
I open my life,find u,then I know how rich I am!
Merry Christmas!
[转载] Christmas Carol List
The Song of Spring春有百花秋有月 夏有凉风冬有雪 若无闲事挂心头 便是人间好时节 December 24 The New Year ResolutionThe releasing tunes of Piano is sweeping over the heart, bringing the utmost serenity to the tumultuous life, making it possible for one to sit down in peace and ponder over some necessary things.
At the upcoming Eve of Christmas,and the ending of Year 2006, I feel it's time to do some conclusion and make the New Year Resolution;and also at the time of the approaching examination, I feel it will respond well to the exam by putting the Resolution in the style of the asked composition.In this way, I hope it will not be too boring!
My New Year Resolution
Say farewell to the passing 2006, every human beings may begin to pay for a better 2007 in their mind, wishing for the complete redemption of the wrongdoings in the previous year and the new relevation and hope in the fresh upcoming one.With the same belief as the others, I 've also joined in the heat current of Christmas, with a constant holy flame in myheart ,committing my biggest resolution here: No matter how hard it is, how much price I have to pay for, I 'll be persistent in,with my heart unbending, reaching the expected height of life to my liking,where the horizon will be expanded, wise accumulated, mind widened, etc.IN my clear awareness, that will be a great and painstaking work as if biulding a strong and firm pillar or foundation to the fantastic mansion in the air. Nevertheless, I know that's what I just must do in my 2007 and the whole project will be completed throught the following three main approaches.
First of all, I must read more, observe more and think more. Needless to be comfirmed further, the most priceless treasure of the human beings must be the book, which has concentrated all the wise and civilization of all generations, constituting the most luminious and indespensabble guide of the society of today and tommorrow.In a word, only the day which has obsorbed certain nutrition from the books will by all means make us wiser and happier.In the best companion with the immense reading must be the more obervation, which will build a bond between the knowledge sheerly from the written words and the true life experience. On the basis of such a bond, our mind will be opened to much more new ideas, blossomming into munerous lovely flowers of thinking.Equipped in this way, we'll be energetic enough to begin our voyage to the height of life.
Secondly, I must practice more, which by all means will make the acquired knowledge and thoughts in our mind become more and more vivid and useful. And it's just the way that will make our goal be reached and dream realized. Virtually, the main reason of our deligent studying is nothing else but to put them into practice , through which we'll taste the savour of the fruits of learning and moreover meet our promise to be a positive and painstaking contributor of our society.Besides, practice will also spur us to come back to seek for more knowledge and guide us in the way of self-approvering.Thus, undoubtedly, practice will largely help push us to a new height.
To be a good learner and practicer, I have to be healthy and strong both bodily and mentally above all, which will be realised in two aspects. On one hand, I must keep a good habit of living and do more exercise regularly to build a unshattered constitution. On the other hand, I must keep my mind as peaceful as possible, which is a bit more challenging task: I must encourage myself to face up with every frustration and failure; I must empower myself to shoulder every overwhelming heavy burden; I must cure my heart which is stabbed unexpectably;and I must try to tolerate, forgive, accept and love more and more people and things for the truth that more spiritual comfort and savours will be returned as a gift.I believe, in this way, I'll be energetic, revived and happy enough to complete my upclaimbing to the holy height in my mind.
Now, on my blueprint, there is a strong and energetic soldier with a sword of wise in his hand, has been setting off , advancing persistantly toward the destination of his life, the top! The Beauty of Words Lies on the Message It Conveys (一)
诗人啊！不要看重世人的喜好，
狂热的赞美只是过眼的喧闹；
你会听到愚人的审判和庸俗之辈的讥讽，
但你要沉着，坚定，冷眼对任何的嘲笑！
你就是帝王！孤独地活下去吧！
让你自由的智慧引导你走上自由的道路，
奋力去完成你所喜爱的思想和果实，
不为那些业绩去谋求功名利禄。
奖赏就在你自身。你是自己的最高法官；
你对自己作品的评价比谁都严厉，
善于挑剔的艺术家，你只问自己是否满意？
满意了？那就让庸人去骂吧，
任他们向你点燃的祭坛唾弃，
哪怕像顽童去摇你的底座也置之不理。
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Un vaste et tender 一片宁静
Apaisement 高远温存 Semble descendre 宛自群星 Du firmament 斗彩之空 Que L'astre irise. 飘然而下。 (三)
有福的惩罚神所惩治的人是有福的！所以你不可轻信看全能者的管教。因为他打破，又缠裹；他击伤，用手医治。你六次遭难，他必救你；就是七次，灾祸也无法害你。在饥荒中，他必救你脱离死亡；在争战中，他必救你脱离刀剑的权力。你必被隐藏，不受口舌之害；灾难临到，你也不惧怕。你遇见灾害饥馑，就必嬉笑；地上的野兽，你也不惧怕。因为你必与田间的石头立约；田里的野兽，也必与你和好。你必知道你帐棚平安，要查看你的羊圈，一无所失。也必知道你的后裔将来发达，你的子孙像地上的青草。你必寿高年迈才归坟墓，好像禾捆到时收藏。这理我们已经考察，本是如此。你须要听，要知道是与自己有益。：） December 23 Echo's PhilosophyEvery time I read the articles by Echo, there's always something special echoed in my mind, spurring me to doggedly continue my pursuit of excellence! It's fortunate to meet some great souls,especially those who're willing to share their experience and thoughts with u , under the overwhelmingly powerful influence of whom, improvement of our own minds will be in motion, and on the way to an expected height of life, we're suffering , surviving, and savouring together.
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A famous coach of a great sports team said: “It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts.” Even if you are quite skilled in something, don’t simply stop searching updated knowledge. Otherwise, ignorance will easily find a way to sneak into your mind.
Then what makes the difference between the best and second best? It’s the persistent hard work and self-discipline. Many of us just can’t be bothered to do our very best work. We look for shortcuts and the easier way of doing things. Our problem is we just want to “get by” with work that is acceptable, but not our very best. That in the end makes the difference between the average and the excellent.
I still remember a story I read about Picasso-- In a restaurant, a woman met Picasso, the world-famous artist. She asked him to write something on her dinner napkin. Picasso scribbled something quickly and said to her: “That will worth $10,000.” The woman was shocked and said to him: “But you did that in just 30 seconds!” Picasso answered: “No, it has taken me 40 years to do that.”
That woman’s view of celebrity was changed forever. So did mine. When we look at successful people, we just can’t help admiring their glories and even envying their fame and fortune. But what we usually don’t get to see is – year in year out, how they sweat the small stuff and work hard at the details and never become self-centered. That’s what makes them successful.
As to these business giants, they also keep looking for new deals even they’ve already built up numerous empires. They know if they think ultimate success has been achieved, they will soon get left behind. Success comes no easy, and it’s even harder to stay successful. It’s true that we can only get out of something from what we put into.
Each of us has great potential. We can, and should, keep learning and improving all our life. Don’t just “get by”, we need to get high on life by learning new things and expanding our horizons.
Every time when you stretch yourself, even if it doesn’t end up with a great success, you won’t stay your original size. You will become a bit bigger and better than before. ------ |
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