六、the value of time
katharine sun
to realize the value of one year:
ask a student who has failed a final exam.
to realize the value of one month:
ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
to realize the value of one week:
ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
to realize the value of one hour:
ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
to realize the value of one minute:
ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
to realize the value of one second:
ask a person who has survived an accident.
to realaize the value of one millisecond:
ask the person who has won a silver medal in the olympics.
time waits for no one.
treasure every moment you have.
七、today is a new day
donna levine
your tomorrows are as bright
as you want to make them.
there is no reason to carry
the darkness of the past
with you into today.
today is a wonderful new experience，
full of every possibility to make
your life exactly what you want it to be.
today is the beginning of new happiness,
new directions and new relationships.
today is the day to remind yourself
that you posses the power
and strength you need
to bring contentment, love and joy into your life.
today is the day to understand yourself
and to give yourself the love
and the patience that you need.
today is the day to move forward
towards your bright tomorrow.
八、dreams
langston hughes
hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken?winged bird
that cannot fly.
hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.
九、the road not taken
robert frost
two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and sorry i could not travel both
and be one traveler, long i stood
and looked down one as far as i could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim,
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
and both that morning equally lay
in leaves no step had trodden black.
oh, i kept the first for another day!
yet knowing how way leads on to way,
i doubted if i should ever come back.
i shall be telling this with a sigh
somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and i?
i took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
十、what is success
ralph waldo emerson
what is success?
to laugh often and love much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the approbation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to give one?s self;
to leave the world a little better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm
and sung with exultation;
to know even one life has breathed easier，
because you have lived...
this is to have succeeded.
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