All that is beautiful poems and passages of life 　　things do not change;we change.sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. 　　万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想 　　think it over……好好想想…… 　　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 i 　　ncrease; 　　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; 　　寻找更我的知识，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 y 　　ou 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. 　　你无从知道这是否最后一刻。

Suppose someone gave you a pen – a sealed, solid-colored pen. 　　假如有人送你一支笔，一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔. 　　You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don‘t know before you begin. 　　里面究竟有多少墨水看不出。或许在你试探性地写上几个字后它就会枯干，或许足够用来创作一部影响深远的不朽巨著(或是几部)。而这些，在动笔前，都是无法得知的。 　　Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance! 　　在这个游戏规则下，你真的永远不会预知结果。你只能去碰运气！ 　　Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. 　　事实上，这个游戏里没有规则指定你必须要做什幺。相反，你甚至可以根本不去动用这支笔，把它扔在书架上或是抽屉里让它的墨水干枯。 　　But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game? 　　但是，如果你决定要用它的话，那幺会用它来做什幺呢？你将怎幺来进行这个游戏呢? 　　Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? 　　你会不写一个字，老是计划来计划去吗？你会不会由于计划过于宏大而来不及动笔呢? 　　Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you? 　　或者你只是手里拿着笔，一头扎进去写，不停地写，艰难地随着文字汹涌的浪涛而随波逐流？ 　　Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly? 　　你会小心谨慎的写字，好象这支笔在下一个时刻就可能会干枯；还是装做或相信这支笔能够永远写下去而信手写来呢？ 　　And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything? 　　并且你又会写下些什幺呢：爱？恨？喜？悲？生？死？虚无？万物？（Great!） 　　Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? Or yourself by writing for others? 　　你写作只是为了愉己？还是为了悦人？抑或是藉替人书写而愉己？ 　　Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain? 　　你的落笔会是颤抖胆怯的，还是鲜明果敢的？你的想象会是丰富的还是贫乏的？（Great!） 　　Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw? 　　甚或你根本没有落笔？这是因为，你拿到笔以后，没有哪条规则说你必须写作。也许你要画素描，乱写一气？信笔涂鸦？画画？ 　　Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they? 　　你会保持写在线内还是线上，还是根本看不到线，即使有线在那里？嗯，真的有线吗？ 　　There‘s a lot to think about here, isn‘t there? 　　这里面有许多东西值得考虑，不是吗? 　　Now, suppose someone gave you a life... 　　现在，假如有人给予你一支生命的笔...

Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort. ( Shakespeare )不要只因一次挫败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(莎士比亚) 　　The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible".( Napoleon )凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能”的。(拿破仑) 　　Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. ( C. Weizmann )奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命蒂努力。(魏茨曼) 　　There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ( Muggeridge )没有黑暗这种东西，只有看不见而已。(马格里奇) 　　Time is a bird for ever on the wing. ( T. W. Robertson )时间是一只永远在飞翔的鸟。(罗伯逊) 　　If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. ( Edison )如果你年轻时不学会思考，那就永远不会。(爱迪生) 　　A day is a miniature of eternity. ( Emerson )一天是永恒的缩影。(爱默生) 　　Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ( L. Blum )品德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(布鲁斯) 　　If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ( O. Wilde )如果世界上少一些同情，世界上也就会少一些麻烦。(王尔德) 　　Don't waste life in doubts and fears. ( Emerson )不要把生命浪费于怀疑与恐惧中。(爱默生) 　　The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ( J. Cocteau )对于诗人来说，最大的悲剧莫过于由于误解而受到钦佩。(科克托) 　　Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ( W. Durant )　教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(杜兰特) 　　In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.( W. A. White )教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。(怀特) 　　It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ( W. G. McAdoo )在争论中是无法击败无知者的。(麦卡杜) 　　A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. ( Voltaire )持久的争论意味着双方都是错的。(伏尔泰) 　　People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ( Chesterton )通常人们是因为不会辩理才吵架的。(切斯特顿) 　　The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ( Bernard Shaw )明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。(萧伯钠) 　　As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ( C. Darrow )只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。(达罗)