心靈雞湯五十篇.--english-doc(共32頁)

1、心靈雞湯五十篇 年輕人要讀的50篇文章1.   Life Struggle-生命的拼搏對強者而言，磨難猶如刀劍，使他愈見鋒芒，誠如孟子所言：“天將降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨”不經(jīng)過磨難的生活，日子未免過得乏味；不經(jīng)過磨難的命運，人生便顯得蒼白。就生命而言，總是從平坦中獲得的效益少，從磨難中獲得的教益深。 Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything. Animals, spiders, insects.   

2、;    One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He took it home.   A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it

3、seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.   Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.    The butterfly then emerged easily.  &

4、#160;      But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact,

5、 the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.          It never was able to fly.         What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the re

6、stricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.       

7、60; Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.          And we could never fly. 2堅持你的夢想I have a

8、 friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Sedro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs. The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, "I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a stor

9、y about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from farm and ranch-to-ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up."That night he wrote a seven-page paper descri

10、bing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on the 200-acr

11、e dream ranch."He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, 'See me after class.'"The boy with the dream went to see the teach

12、er after class and asked, 'Why did I receive an F?'"The teacher said, 'this is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have

13、 to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to pay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it.' Then the teacher added, 'If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your

14、 grade.'"The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, 'Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this However, I think it is a very important decision for you.'"Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the

15、 boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He stated, 'You can keep the F and I'll keep my dream.'"Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ra

16、nch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace." He added, "The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same school-teacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week." When the teacher was leaving, he said, 'Look, Monty, I can tell you this now.

17、 When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids' dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.'"  Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.Questions:1.Who told Monty to ke

18、ep his dream? 2.What's Monty's dream? Does it come true?3人生絮語：愛在心里成長Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. When the door of happiness closes, another opens,

19、but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. It&#

20、39;s true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it

21、to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even tha

22、t fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile. 4生活中的“磚頭”A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching fo

23、r kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, one child appeared, and a brick smashed into the Jag's side door. He slammed on the brakes and spun the Jag back to the spot from where the brick had been thrown.He jumped out of

24、 the car, grabbed some kid and pushed him up against a parked car, shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?" Building up a head of steam, he went on “Thats a new car and that brick you threw is gonna cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"

25、Ys "Please, mister, please, Im sorry. I didn't know what else to do!” pleaded the youngster. "It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up. Sobbing, the boy asked the executive, "Would yo

26、u please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me." Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapes and cuts

27、, checking to see that everything was going to be okay. "Thank you, sir. And God bless you," the grateful child said to him. The man then watched the little boy push his brother to the sidewalk toward their home. It was a long walk backs to his Jaguar. a long, slow walk. He never did

28、repair the side door. He kept the dent to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention. Life whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. Sometimes, when you don't have the time to listen. Life throws a brick at your head. It's y

29、our choice: Listen to the whispers of your soul or wait for the brick! 5人生絮語：生命只有一次There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because yo

30、u have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it prob

31、ably hurts the other person, too. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreci

32、ate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born, you

33、were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make

34、you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship. And if you don't, don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you will just miss out on the opport

35、unity to brighten someone's day with this message. 6一杯牛奶的溫暖A Glass of Milk 一杯牛奶的溫暖One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.However, he

36、lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?" "You don't owe me anything," she repl

37、ied. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness." He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in God and the human race. He was about to give up and q

38、uit before this point.Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the

39、 town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. Fr

40、om that day on, he gave special attention to her case.After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because

41、she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words."Paid in full with a glass of milk."(Signed) Dr. Howard KellyTears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed silently: &qu

42、ot;Thank You, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands." 7關(guān)于幸福的真諦 A Simply Truth About HappinessAfter I gave a talk on the subject of happiness, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "I wish my husband had come." "Much as I loved him," she explained

43、, "it wasn't easy being married to someone so unhappy." This woman enabled me to put into words what I had been searching for - altruistic, as well as the personal, reasons for taking happiness seriously. I told her that each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends to be

44、 as happy as we can.I was not a particularly happy child, and like most teenagers, I took pleasure in my anguish. One day, however, it occurred to me that I was taking the easy way out. Anyone could be unhappy; it took no courage and effort. True achievement lay in struggling to be happy. The notion

45、 that we have to work at happiness comes as news to many people. We assume it's a feeling that comes as a result of good things that just happen to us, things over which we have little or no control. But the opposite is true: happiness is largely under our control. It is a battle to be fought an

46、d not a feeling to be awaited. To achieve a happy life, it's necessary to overcome some stumbling blocks, three of which are:Note altruistic: adj. 無私心的spouse: n. 配偶（指夫或妻）anguish: n. 痛苦，苦惱 stumble: v. 絆倒，躊躇 Comparison with OthersMost of us compare ourselves with anyone we think is happier - a rel

47、ative, an acquaintance or, often someone we barely know. I once met a young man who struck me as particularly successful and happy. He spoke of his love for his beautiful wife and their three daughters, and of his joy at being a radio talk-show host in a city he loved. I remember thinking that he wa

48、s one of those lucky few for whom everything goes effortlessly right. Then we started talking about the Internet. He blessed its existence, he told me, because he could look up information on multiple sclerosis - the terrible disease afflicting his wife. I felt like a fool for assuming nothing unhap

49、py existed in his life. Note acquaintance: n. 熟人sclerosis: n. 硬化癥 Images of PerfectionAlmost all of us have images of how life should be. The problem, of course, is that only rarely do people's jobs, spouses and children live up to these imagined ideals. Here's a personal example: no one in

50、my family had ever divorced. I assumed that marriage was for life. So when my wife and I divorced after five years of marriage and three years after the birth of our son, my world collapsed. I was a failure in my own eyes. I later remarried and confided to my wife that I couldn't shake the feeli

51、ng that my family life had failed. She asked me what was wrong with our family now (which included her daughter from a previous marriage and my son). I had to admit that, aside from the pain of being with my son only half the time (my ex-wife and I shared custody), our family life was wonderful. “Th

52、en why dont you celebrate it?" she asked. Thats what I decided to do. But first I had to get rid of a "perfect" family.Note divorce: v. 離婚collapse: v.倒塌，崩潰 "Missing Tile" SyndromeOne effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest

53、 flaw. It's like looking at the tiled ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is missing. As a bald man told me, "whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair. " Once you've determined what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will really make you happy. T

54、hen do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different tile, or forget about it and focus on the tiles in your life that are not missing.We all know people who have had a relatively easy life yet are essentially unhappy. And we know people who have suffered a great deal but generally re

55、main happy.The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.Noteflaw: n. 缺點，瑕疵essentially: adv. 本質(zhì)上gratitude: n. 感

56、謝的心情 The second secret is realizing that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvious sources are those pursuits that give our lives purpose - anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are likely to experience. Finally, the b

57、elief that something permanent transcends us and that our existence has some larger meaning can help us be happier. We need a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy, it should include this truism: if you choose to find the positive in virtually every situation, you will b

58、e blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is largely your decision to make.8做人的十條規(guī)則 The Rules For Being Human1. You will receive a body.You may like it or hate it, but is will be yours for the entire period of this time around.2. You

59、 will learn lessons.You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.Growth is a process of trial and error: Ex

60、perimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".Noteirrelevant: adj. 不相關(guān)的      trial: n. 考驗        ultimately: adv. 基本上 4. A lesson is repeated until le

61、arned.A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.5. Learning lessons does not end.There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.6.&#

62、160;"There" is no better than "here".When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here".7. Others are merely mirrors of you.You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects