During my junior year in high school, Mr. Reynolds, my English teacher, handed each student a list of thoughts or statements written by other students, then gave us a creative writ...

  Promise more, not to be, that is just a lie. 承诺再多，做不到，那也只不过是谎言. I will have a program, I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it.  我会制定一个...

        Charlie Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. He flew 74 consecutive successful combat missions. However on his 75th mission, his F4Phantom fighter...

Words To Live 生活的忠告 Anonymous 无名氏     I‘ll give you some advice about life.     Eat more roughage；     Do more than oth...

  A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. There‘s always going to be people that hurt you，so what you have to do is keep on trusting a...

Expressing One’s Individuality Arnold Bennett A most curious and useful thing to realize is that one never knows the impression one is creating on other people. One may ...

Dear Seth, [1] You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can‘t read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I‘ve be...

Silent quiet song   Not afraid of the dark night night black, dark enough to accommodate your irritability and sorrow. But just so strange black, and convoluted with your d...

The old monk often took the young monk to the hill outside the temple to recite the lection. One day the young monk said to the old monk,'How slowly the time goes!' The old monk sa...

There are no such setbacks we could not overcome Our tolerating ability is indeed may beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential ...