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We don’t choose to be born. We don’t choose our vpn免费下载 parents. We don’t choose our historical epoch, the country 免费vpn of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our vpn免费 upbringing. We don’t, most of us, vpn软件免费 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 of in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in vpn免费 life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or vpn免费 vpn软件免费 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.



Abrasion磨损；

collectivity集体；

tumultuous喧嚣的，纷乱的；

Unrelievedly持续不变地，未缓和地；

sham骗局；

at bottom实际上；

cynical愤世嫉俗的；

derange打乱；

posterity子孙，后裔；

epoch时代，时期；

cowardice胆怯；怯懦；

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I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -- ecstasy so great vpn免费下载 that I would vpn软件免费 often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness -- that terrible vpn免费 loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought vpn免费下载 it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it vpn软件免费 might seem too good 免费vpn for human life, this is what -- at least -- I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. vpn免费下载 And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by 免费vpn which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of 免费vpn loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can't, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live 免费vpn it again if the chance were offered me.

7.When love beckons you

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For even as love crowns you so shall vpn软件免费 he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest vpn免费下载 branches that quiver in the sun, so vpn软件免费 shall he descend to your roots and shake vpn免费下载 them in their clinging to the earth .

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake 免费vpn at dawn vpn免费下载 with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy.

To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

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Beckon召唤；

pinion羽翼；

crucify折磨；

pruning修剪；

Caress抚爱；

quiver震动，颤抖；

threshing-floor打谷场；

Naught零；

eventide黄昏；

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9.On Meeting the Celebrated

I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across. They show the world a mask, 免费vpn often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves. They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.

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10.he vpn软件免费 50-Percent Theory of Life

生活半对半



I believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a vpn免费下载 pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and vpn免费 that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.

我信奉对半理论。生活时而无比顺畅，时而倒霉透顶，好坏参半。我觉得生活就像来回晃动的钟摆。读懂生活的常态需要时间和阅历，也正是这样才练就了我面对未来荣辱不惊的生活态度。

Let's benchmark the parameters: Yes, I will die. I've dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved vpn免费下载 boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.

让我们掂量这些点点滴滴：是的，我注定会死去。我已经经历了双亲的仙逝，一位友人的亡故，一位敬爱的老板的离逝，还有心爱宠物的死亡。当中一些变故突如其来，直击眼前；有些却长期折磨，痛苦不堪。糟糕的事儿，它们驻留谷底。

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当然生活也不乏熠熠光彩：坠入爱河缔结良缘；养育幼子身为人父，训练儿子的棒球队，当他和狗在水中嬉戏时，摇桨划船前瞻后顾，感受他如此强烈的同情心——即使对蜗牛也善待有加，发现他如此活跃的想像力——即使零散的积木也能堆出太空飞船。

But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, 免费vpn where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what vpn免费下载 convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.

但在它们发生期间有一片宽广的草坪，在那儿上演的各种好事坏事像耍杂技一样地翻新。这就是让我信服对半理论的原因。

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有一年春天，我在一片容易被淹的低洼地过早地种下了玉米，邻居们都为此嘲笑我。一番心血付之东流让我懊恼不已。接着我生命中最难熬的酷暑来临了——热浪袭人，酿至旱灾。空调失灵，水井枯竭，婚姻破裂，惨遭失业，积蓄挥空。我正经历某个乡村调频描绘的情节，我讨厌这种音乐。只有一支人气攀升的堪萨斯皇家棒球队的小组因他们的第一次出征世界大赛团结起来使我精神振奋。

Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn't last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon times. vpn软件免费 They reinvigorate me for vpn免费下载 the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that I can thrive. The 50 percent vpn免费下载 theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals' recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can vpn软件免费 reap an October harvest.

回想那个可怕的夏天，我不久就明白了所有的好事坏事不过是正负抵消。不顺心的境遇不会延宕过久。太平时光是我应得的，我要尽情享受。它们给我新的活力以应对突如其来的险境，并确保我再度辉煌。对半理论甚至帮我在我喜爱的皇家棒球队最近的低潮中看到希望——这是一块艰难行进的新手们耕耘的土地，播种了，假以时日我们就可以收获十月的金秋。

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哦，对了，玉米收成？就那年炎热的夏天，庄稼地的湿度恰到好处，过早的种植使授粉避开酷热在顶梢干枯前完成，雨水稀少使地里长着的玉米免遭水灾。那年冬天，我的粮仓里堆满了玉米——饱满结实的玉米每株秆上结三个，每个玉米从底到顶端长满了玉米粒——而我的邻居们地里长出来的只是暗沉干瘪的壳。

Although vpn免费 plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again vpn免费下载 in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during 免费vpn the drought.

尽管过去播种的收获没有达到50％的期望，而且将来也可能是这样，我仍然要为经历旱季依然丰收的玉米而坚守阵地。

11.What is your Recovery Rate?

by Graham and Julie Harris

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The secret to a better life is be like the sportsperson, ask yourself:

Did I recover quicker today than I did yesterday?

Did I recover quicker this time than the last occasion I faced a similar incident?

Did I allow myself to be average today?

Did I equal or improve on my personal best today?

Don’t live your life in the past! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t allow thoughts of the past 免费vpn to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly.

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Check yourself:

What was my recovery rate after the argument with my partner?

What was my recovery rate after I lost a sale?

What was my recovery rate after I received a ticket for speeding?

What was my recovery rate after I heard a friend was ill?

What was my recovery rate after I got frustrated with myself over………?

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Your aim: reduce the time spent vpn软件免费 in recovery.

The way forward? Live in the present. Not in the precedent.

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