By Anonymous/无名氏  
　　
　　I’ll give you some advice about life.
　　给你生活的忠告

　　Eat more roughage;
　　多吃些粗粮；

　　Do more than others expect you to do and do it pains;
　　给别人比他们期望的更多，并用心去做；
　　Remember what life tells you;
　　熟记生活告诉你的一切；
　　Don’t take to heart every thing you hear.
　　Don’t spend all that you have.
　　Don’t sleep as long as you want;
　　不要轻信你听到的每件事，不要花光你的所有，不要想睡多久就睡多久；\

　　Whenever you say” I love you”, please say it honestly;
　　无论何时说“我爱你”，请真心实意；
　　Whevever you say” I’m sorry”, please look into the other person’s eyes;
　　无论何时说“对不起”，请看对方的眼睛；

　　Fall in love at first sight;  
　　相信一见钟情；

　　Don’t neglect dreams;
　　请不要忽视梦想；

　　Love deeply and ardently, even if there is pain, but this is the way to make your life complete;
　　深情热烈地爱，也许会受伤，但这是使人生完整的唯一方法；
　　Find a way to settle, not to dispute;
　　用一种明确的方法解决争议，不要冒犯；

　　Never judge people by their appearance;
　　永远不要以貌取人；

　　Speak slowly, but think quickly;
　　慢慢地说，但要迅速地想；
　　When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, simle and say, “Why do you want to know?”
　　 当别人问你不想回答的问题时，笑着说：“你为什么想知道？”

　　Remember that the man who can shoulder the most risk will gain the deepest love and the supreme accomplishment;
　　记住：那些敢于承担最大风险的人才能得到最深的爱和最大的成就；

　　Call you mother on the phone. If you can’t, you may think of her in your heart;
　　给妈妈打电话，如果不行，至少在心里想着她；

　　When someone sneezes say, “God bless you”;
　　当别人打喷嚏时，说一声“上帝保佑”；

　　If you fail, don’t forget to learn your lesson;
　　如果你失败了，千万别忘了汲取教训；

　　 Remember the three “ respects” .Respect yourself, respect others, stand on dignity and pay attention to your behavīor;
　　记住三个“尊”： 尊重你自己； 尊重别人； 保持尊严， 对自己的行为负责；

　　Don’t let a little dispute break up a great friendship;
　　不要让小小的争端损毁了一场伟大的友谊；

　　Whenever you find your wrongdoing, be quick with reparation!
　　无论何时你发现自己做错了，竭尽所能去弥补；动作要快！

　　Whenever you make a phone call smil when you pick up the phone, because someone feel it!
　　无论什么时候打电话，摘起话筒的时候请微笑，因为对方能感觉到！

　　Marry a person who likes talking; because when you get old, you’ll find that chatting to be a great advantage;
　　找一个你爱聊的人结婚；因为年纪大了后，你会发觉喜欢聊天是一个人最大的优点；

　　Find time for yourself.
　　找点时间，单独呆会儿；

　　Life will change what you are but not who you are;
　　欣然接受改变，但不要摒弃你的个人理念；

Remember that silence is golden;
　　记住：沉默是金；

　　Read more books and watch less television;
　　多看点书，少看点电视；

　　Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your old age will help you to enjoy your life again;
　　过一种高尚而诚实的生活。当你年老时回想起过去，你就能再一次享受人生。

　　Trust God, but don’t forget to lock the door;
　　相信上帝，但是别忘了锁门；

　　The harmonizing atmosphere of a family is valuable;
　　家庭的融洽氛围是难能可贵的；

　　Try your best to let family harmony flow smoothly;
　　尽你的能力让家平顺和谐；

　　When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don’t quibble over the appetizers;
　　当你和你的亲近的少吵嘴时候，试着就事论事，不要扯出那些陈芝麻、烂谷子的事；
　　You cannot hold onto yesterday;
　　不要摆脱不了昨天；
　　Figure out the meaning of someone’s words;
　　多注意言下之意；
　　

　　Share your knowledge to continue a timeless tradition;
　　和别人分享你的知识，那才是永恒之道；

　　Treat our earth in a friendly way,don’t fool around with mother nature;
　　善待我们的地球，不要愚弄自然母亲；

　　Do the thing you should do;
　　做自己该做的事；

　　Don’t trust a lover who kisses you without closing their eyes;
　　不要相信接吻时从不闭眼的伴侣；
　　Go to a place you’ve never been to every year.
　　每年至少去一个你从没去过的地方。
　　
　　If you earn much money,the best way to spend it is on charitable deeds while you are alive;
　　如果你赚了很多钱，在活着的时候多行善事，这是你能得到的最好回报；
　　Remember,not all the best harvest is luck;
　　记住有时候，不是最好的收获也是一种好运；

　　Understand rules completely and change them reasonably;
　　深刻理解所有的规则，合理地更新他们；

　　Remember,the best love is to love others unconditionally rather than make demands on them;
　　记住，最好的爱存在于对别人的爱胜于对别人的索求这上；

　　Comment on the success you have attained by looking in the past at the target you wanted to achieve most;
　　回头看看你发誓取得的目标，然后评价你到底有多成功；

　　In love and cooking,you must give 100% effort……but expect little appreciation;
　　无论是烹饪不是爱情，都用百分之百的负责态度对待，但是不要乞求太多的回报。

Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view; 
　　今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘; 
　　 
　　

We spend more,but enjoy less; 
　　我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少； 
　　 
　　We have bigger houses,but smaller famillies; 
　　我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了； 
　　 
　　We have more compromises,but less time; 
　　我们妥协更多，时间更少； 
　　 
　　We have more knowledge,but less judgment; 
　　我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了； 
　　 
　　We have more medicines,but less health; 
　　我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意； 
　　 
　　We have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values; 
　　我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了； 
　　 
　　We talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much; 
　　我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了； 
　　 
　　We reached the Moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors; 
　　我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍； 
　　 
　　We have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space; 
　　我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心； 
　　 
　　We have highter income,but less morals; 
　　我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了； 
　　 
　　These are times with more liberty,but less joy; 
　　我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少； 
　　 
　　We have much more food,but less nutrition; 
　　我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了； 
　　 
　　These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase; 
　　现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了； 
　　 
　　These are times of finer houses,but more broken homes; 
　　现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭； 
　　 
　　That‘s why I propose,that as of today; 
　　这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始； 
　　 
　　You do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a SPECIAL OCCASION. 
　　不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别； 
　　 
　　Search for knowledge,read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs; 
　　寻找更多的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法； 
　　 
　　Spend more time with your family and friends,eat your favorite foods,visit the places you love; 
　　花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方； 
　　 
　　Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment;not only about survival; 
　　生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存； 
　　 
　　Use your crystal goblets.Do not save your best perfume,and use it every time you feel you want it. 
　　举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！ 
　　 
　　Remove from your vocabulary phrases like"one of these days"or "someday"; 
　　从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”； 
　　 
　　Let‘s write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"! 
　　曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！ 
　　 
　　Let‘s tell our families and friends how much we love them; 
　　告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们； 
　　 
　　Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life; 
　　不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情； 
　　 
　　Every day,every hour,and every minute is special; 
　　每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别； 
　　 
　　And you don‘t know if it will be your last. 
　　你无从知道这是否是最后一刻。

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, 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.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

Love 爱情 

I love you not because of who you are,but because of who I am when I am with you. 
我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。 

No man or woman is worth your tears,and the one who is ,won't make you cry. 
没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。 

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them. 
失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。 

Never frown,even when you are sad,because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 
纵然伤心，也不要悉眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。 

To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world. 
对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某人，你是他的整个世界。 

Don't waste your time on a man/woman,who isn't willing to waste their time on you. 
不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。 

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. 
爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式爱你，那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。 

Don't try to hard,the best things come when you least expect them to. 
不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。 

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,so that when we finally meet the person,we will know how to be grateful. 
在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别人；在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。 

Don't cry because it is over,smile because it happened. 
不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。

If you can ¹⁾keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But ²⁾make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two ³⁾impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by ⁴⁾knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with ⁵⁾worn-out tools;

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of ⁶⁾pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and ⁷⁾sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on !”;

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds “worth of distance run”

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!

 

如果所有人都失去理智，咒骂你，

你仍能保持头脑清醒；

如果所有人都怀疑你，

你仍能坚信自己，让所有的怀疑动摇；

如果你要等待，不要因此厌烦，

为人所骗，不要因此骗人，

为人所恨，不要因此抱恨，

不要太乐观，不要自以为是；

 

如果你是个追梦人--不要被梦主宰；

如果你是个爱思考的人--不要以思想者自居；

如果你遇到骄傲和挫折

把两者当骗子看待；

如果你能忍受你曾讲过的事实

被恶棍扭曲，用于蒙骗傻子，

或者，看着你用毕生去看护的东西被破坏，

俯下身去，用破旧的工具把它修补；

 

如果在你赢得无数桂冠之后，

然后孤注一掷再博一次，

失败过后，东山再起，

不要抱怨你的失败；

如果你能迫使自己，

在别人走后，长久坚守阵地，

在你心中已空荡荡无一物，

只有意志告诉你“坚持！”；

 

如果你与人交谈，能保持风度，

伴王同行，能保持距离；

如果仇敌和好友都不害你；

如果所有人都指望你，却无人全心全意；

如果你花六十秒进行短程跑，

填满那不可饶恕的一分钟--

你就可以拥有一个世界，

这个世界的一切都是你的，

更重要的是

孩子，你是个顶天立地的人。

David J.Smith/大卫.史密斯 Shelath Armstrory／谢拉.阿姆斯壮  
　　
　　If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
　　如果我们把全世界的人口按照现有压缩为一个１００人的村子，情况就会如同以下：
　　
　　There would be:
　　57 Asians
　　21 Europeans
　　10 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
　　8 Africans
　　这个村子里有：
　　57人是亚洲人
　　21人是欧洲人
　　14人来自西半球的南、北美洲
　　8人是非洲人
　　
　　52 would be female
　　48 would be male
　　52人是女性
　　48人是男性
　　
　　70 would be non-while
　　30 would be white
　　70人是有色人种
　　30人是白人
　　70 would be non-christian
　　30 would be Christian
　　70人是非基督教徒
　　30人是基督徒
　　
　　89 would be heterosexual
　　11 would be homosexual
　　89人是异性恋者
　　11人是同性恋者
　　
　　6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth
　　and all 6 would be from the United States.
　　6人拥有全世界59％的财富
　　而且这6人全是美国人
　　
　　80 would live in substandard housing
　　70 would be unable to read
　　50 would suffer from malnutrition
　　1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
　　80人的居住环境不达标准
　　70人是文盲
　　50人苦于营养不良
　　1人濒临死亡边缘；1人正要出生
　　
　　1(yes, only 1) would have a college education
　　１ would own a computer
　　1人（是的，只有１人)会接受大学教育
　　1人拥有电脑
　　
　　When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
　　透过这个压缩图来放眼我们的世界，就会明晓接纳他人、谅解以及教育是何等重要。
　　
　　The following is also something to ponder……
　　再从以下角度来想想看……
　　
　　If you woke pup this morning with more health than illness……you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
　　如果你早上醒来的时候健康无恙……那么，比起活不过这一周的百万人来说，你真是幸运多了。
　　
　　If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation…you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
　　如果你未曾经历过战争的危险、入狱的孤独、严刑的苦楚、饥饿的痛苦……那么，比起世界上５亿人来，你真是幸运多了。
　　
　　If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep… you are richer than 75% of this world.
　　如果你冰箱里有食物，身上有衣服可穿，有屋篷遮蔽，有地方睡觉……那么，比起世界上７５％的人来，你真是富足多了。
　　
　　If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in dish someplace…you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealth.
　　如果你银行中有存款，钱包中也有钱，还能到某处消费习菜……你便跻身在世界上最富有的８％人口当中了。
　　
　　If your parents are still alive and still married…you are very rare, even in the United Stated and Canada.
　　如果你的父母依然健在，而且还在一起生活的话……这可是非常难得的事，即使是在美国与加拿大。
　　
　　Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
　　有人说过：我所付出的终将会回归。
　　
　　So…
　　Work live you don’t need the money.
　　Love like you’ve never been hurt.
　　Dance like nobody’s watching.
　　Sing like nobody’s listening.
　　Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
　　所以……
　　去工作时，犹如你不执迷于金钱。
　　去爱他人，犹如你从未曾被伤害。
　　去舞蹈吧，犹如无人在一旁观看。
　　去歌唱吧，犹如无人在一边谛听。
　　好好地生活，犹如这里是人间乐土。

转自：zt The Blue Day Book 布拉德里.特雷弗.格里夫 著 每个人都有忧郁的日子。 Everybody has blue days. 那些日子真是惨透了，你觉得心里乱糟糟的、怨气丛生、寂寞、整个人彻底的精疲力竭。 These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted. 那些日子总会让你感到自己的渺小和微不足道， Days when you feel small and insignificant, 每件事情似乎都够不着边。 when everything seems just out of reach. 你根本无法振作起来。 You can’t rise to the occasion. 根本没有力气重新开始。 Just getting started seems impossible. 在忧郁的日子里，你可能变成偏执狂，觉得每个人都想要吃定你。 On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you. 其实情况并不总是那么糟。 This is not always such a bad thing. 你感到灰心、焦虑，可能开始神经质地拼命咬指甲，然后不可救药地陷入一眨眼吃掉三大块巧克力蛋糕的疯狂！ You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye! 在忧郁的日子里，你会觉得自己在悲伤的海里沉沉浮浮。 On blue days you feel like you’re floating in an ocean of sadness. 不论在什么时候，你总有种想哭的冲动，却不知道为了什么。 You’re about to burst into tears at any moment and you don’t even know why. 最后，你觉得自己犹如行尸走肉，失去生活目标。 Ultimately, you feel like you’re wandering through life without purpose. 你不知道自己还可以撑多久， You’re not sure how much longer you can hang on, 然后你想大喊一声：“谁来一枪把我打死吧！” and you feel like shouting, “Will someone please shout me!” 其实一点小事就让你一天都郁闷难当。 It doesn’t take much to bring on a blue day. 也许只是一觉醒来，没有感觉到或者看到自己最棒的一面， You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best, 发现自己又多了几条皱纹，又重了几斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一个大包。 find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose. 你可能忘记了约会对象的名字，或是有张可笑的照片被登出来。 You could forget your date’s name or have an embarrassing photograph published. 你或许被人抛弃、离了婚，或是被开除，当众出丑，被刻薄的绰号弄得心乱如麻， You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname, 或许只因为你得整天顶着一个其丑无比的发型。 or just have a plain old bad-hair day. 也许工作让你痛苦得如坐针毡。 Maybe work is a pain in the butt. 你在强大的压力下顶替他人的位置， You’re under major pressure to fill someone else’s shoes, 你的老板对你百般挑剔， your boss is picking on you, 办公室里的每一个人都让你发疯。 and everyone in the office is driving you crazy. 你可能会头疼欲裂， You might have a splitting headache, 或重心不稳跌个正着，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口干舌燥， or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips, 或是指甲长到肉里头了。 or a nasty ingrown toenail. 不管什么原因，你确定上面有人不喜欢你。 Whatever the reason, you’re convinced that someone up there doesn’t like you. 唉，该怎么办，到底该怎么办呢？ Oh what to do, what to do? 嗯，你可能跟大部分人一样， Well, if you’re like most people, 随便找个东西躲起来,以为事情会自行解决。 you’ll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out. 结果你得花掉下半辈子的时间回头看， Then you’ll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, 等着一次有一次重蹈覆辙。 waiting for everything to go wrong all over again. 最后你会变成一个易怒的、愤世嫉俗的，或者是 一个可怜兮兮的、哭哭啼啼的受害者。 All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic, sniveling victim. 最终你绝望地躺在地上，祈求地球将你吞没，或是沉迷在比利.乔的蓝调音乐中不能自拔。 Until you get so depressed that you lie down and beg the earth to swallow you up or, even worse, become addicted to Billy Joel songs. 这的确很蠢， This is crazy, 因为你只能年轻一次，而且绝对不可能老两次。 because you’re only young once and you’re never old twice