【#英语资源# 导语】做人,侧重于外在美,难免流于俗气;多注重内在美,方显雅致。对人,咄咄逼人必招怨恨,宽宏大量常得人心;对己,心事过重伤心伤神,心态淡然自在优雅。人生,从内到外,保持质朴淡雅的气质,才能悦人悦己。®文档大全网整理了关于人生的晨读英语美文三篇,快来看看吧!希望能帮助到你~更多相关讯息请关注®文档大全网!
Beauty
There were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.
It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one's truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life.
I used to find notes left in the collection basket, beautiful notes about my homilies and about the writer's thoughts on the daily s criptural readings. The person who penned the notes would add reflections to my thoughts and would always include some quotes from poets and mystics he or she had read and remembered and loved. The notes fascinated me. Here was someone immersed in a search for truth and beauty. Words had been treasured, words that were beautiful. And I felt as if the words somehow delighted in being discovered, for they were obviously very generous to the as yet anonymous writer of the notes. And now this person was in turn learning the secret of sharing them. Beauty so shines when given away. The only truth that exists is, in that sense, free.
It was a long time before I met the author of the notes.
One Sunday morning, I was told that someone was waiting for me in the office. The young person who answered the rectory door said that it was "the woman who said she left all the notes." When I saw her I was shocked, since I immediately recognized her from church but had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes. She was sitting in a chair in the office with her hands folded in her lap. Her head was bowed and when she raised it to look at me, she could barely smile without pain. Her face was disfigured, and the skin so tight from surgical procedures that smiling or laughing was very difficult for her. She had suffered terribly from treatment to remove the growths that had so marred her face.
We chatted for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week.
As it turned out we went to lunch several times, and she always wore a hat during the meal. I think that treatments of some sort had caused a lot of her hair to fall out. We shared things about our lives. I told her about my schooling and growing up. She told me that she had worked for years for an insurance company. She never mentioned family, and I did not ask.
We spoke of authors we both had read, and it was easy to tell that books are a great love of hers.
I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I know that her condition hurt her deeply.
Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have. And yet there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. Her words came from a wounded but loving heart, very much like all hearts, but she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it and learn from it. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend.
How long does it take most of us to reach that level of human growth, if we ever get there? We get so consumed and diminished, worrying about all the things that need improving, we can easily forget to cherish those things that last. Friendship, so rare and so good, just needs our care-maybe even the simple gesture of writing a little note now and then, or the dropping of some beautiful words in a basket, in the hope that such beauty will be shared and taken to heart.
The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found beauty and grace and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.
美丽人生
她有着一种与外表无关的灵气和美丽。她的话语轻而易举地征服了人心,她正是我们要聆听的声音。
很多人都说人生的真谛是个未知的概念。言词的费力诠释、艺术的着力表现还有人类那似乎永无休止的纷繁思考,三者都苦苦追寻人生的真谛。希望走近以至完全把握存在的真意可以令人十分狂热。有时候,有些人以自己笃信的真理为志趣,追寻真理甚于保全生命,于是就有舍生取义之举。然而,也有另外的一种人生,他们在寻求真谛的过程中灌溉生命。
过去,我常常在教堂的心意篮里面发现一些优美的小短文,有些是关于我的布道,有些是作者日常读《圣经》的感想。写这些短文的人不仅对我的一些观点加以反思,同时还会引用一些他/她曾经读过的,令他/她难忘又喜爱的诗人或者神秘主义者的话。我给这些短文迷住了。我看到了一个执着于追寻真与美的人。其珍而重之的字句,优美动人。我还感觉到好像那些字句也乐于让我们发现,它们是那么毫无保留地,慷慨地为这无名氏作者借用,而现在轮到这位无名氏来学习与人分享这些美文的奥秘。分享令美愈加闪耀生辉,在这个意义上说,其实世上的真理是分毫不费的。
过了很久我才见到这些短文的作者。
一个星期天早上,我被告知有人正在办公室等我。帮我应门的年轻人说“是个女人,说留言是她放的。”看见她的时候我大吃一惊,因为我马上就认出她是我的教区信徒,只是我一直不知道那些短文是她写的。她坐在办公室的一张椅子上,两手相扣搁在大腿上,低垂着头。在抬头看我的时候,她微笑起来却十分费劲。那是一张破了相的脸,外科手术使她的脸皮绷得紧紧的,笑对她来说也是很困难的。为了去除脸上碍眼的肉瘤她接受了手术治疗,这令她吃尽苦头。
那个星期天早上我们聊了一会儿,并决定那个星期再找个时间一起吃顿午饭。
后来我们不止吃了一顿午饭,而是好几顿。每次一起吃饭的时候她都戴着帽子。我想可能是她接受的某种治疗使她掉了不少头发。我们分享了各自生活中的点点滴滴。我跟她讲我读书和成长的故事。她告诉我她在一家保险公司里已经工作多年了。她从来没有提过自己的家庭,我也没有问。
我们还谈到大家都读过的作家作品,不难发现她非常喜欢看书。
这些年我经常想起她,在这个以外表、地位和财富等虚名浮利挂帅的社会中她是怎样一路挺过来的呢?毁掉的容颜使她怎么也无法变得耀眼迷人。我知道这深深地刺痛着她。
如果她长得漂亮,她的生命轨迹会不会有所不同呢?有可能。不过她有种独特的灵气和美,与外表完全无关。她的话轻而易举地征服了人心,她正是我们要聆听的声音。她的隽语出于一颗受过伤却充满爱的心,就像所有人的心一样,只不过她比别人更注重对自己心灵的关注、用心去体会生活并从中学习。她拥有一种细腻的美感。她生命里的恐惧就是失去朋友。
我们究竟要花多长时间才能达到如此高度的成熟?能否最终达到还是个未知数呢。我们老觉得身心疲惫,怀才不遇,只顾为眼前的不足忧心忡忡,却忘了珍视一些历久常新的东西。友谊珍贵而美好,只需我们用心呵护,有时候简简单单的表示就已经足够了,譬如偶尔写几句话给朋友,或者在篮子里投入一些优美动人的字条,以期大家都能分享,记住美妙的时刻、美好的感觉。
她生命的真谛就是要透过事物的表面一睹其真正的本质。她发现了美和上帝的慈爱,而美和慈爱也待她如友,把生命的真谛呈现给她。
The Dreamer 追梦人
Go with your passion.It has been said that who see the invisible can do the impossible.
原文
When I was nine years old living in a smaIl town in North Carolina I found an ad for selling greeting cards in the back of a children's magazine.I thought to myself I can do this.I begged my mother to let me send for the kit.Two weeks later when the kit arrived,I ripped off the brown paper wrapper,grabbed the cards and dashed from the house.Three hours later.I returned home with no card and a pocket full of money proclaiming,“Mama.all the people couldn't wait to buy my cards!”A salesperson was born.when I was twelve years old,my father took me to see Zig Ziegler.I remember sitting in that dark auditorium listening to Mr,Zigler raise everyone's spirits up to the ceiling,I left there feeling like I could do anything.When we got to the car,I turned to my father and said.“Dad.I want to make people feel like that.”My father asked me what I meant."I want to be a motivational speaker just like Mr.Zigler,“I replied.A dream was born.
Recently,I began pursuing my dream of motivating others.After a four-year relationship with a major furtune 100company beginning as a salestrainer and ending as a regional sales manager,I left the company at the height of my career,Many people were astounded that I would leave after earning a six-figure income.And they asked why I would risk everything for a dream.
I made my decision to start my own company and leave my secure position after attending a regional sales meeting.The vice-president of our company delivered a speech that changed my life.He asked us,“If a genie would grant you three wishes what would they be?”After giving us a moment to write down the three wishes.he then asked us,"why do you need a genie ?"I would never forget the empowerment I felt at that moment.
I realized that everything I had accomplished一the graduate degree,the successful sales career,speaking engagements,training and managing for a fortune l00company had prepared me for this moment.I was ready and did not need a genie's help to become a motivational speaker.
When I tearfully told my boss my plans this incredible leader whom Irespect so much replied,"Precede with reckless abandon and you will be successful“
Having made that decision,I was immediately tested.One week after I gave notice,my husband was“laid off from his job.We had recently bought a new home and needed both incomes to make the monthly mortgage payment and now we were done to no income.It was tempting to turn back to my former company,knowing they wanted me to stays but l was certain that if I went back,I would never leave.I decided I still wanted to move forward rather than end up with a mouth full of”if onlys"later on.A motivational speaker was born.
When l held fast to my dream,even during the tough times.The miracles really began to happen.In a short time period my husband found a better job.We didn't miss a mortgage payment.And I was able to book several speaking engagements with new clients.I discovered the incredible power of dreams.I loved my old job,my peers and the company I left,but it was time to get on with my dream.To celebrate my success I had a local artist paint my new offlce as a garden.At the top of one wall she stenciled,“The world always makes way for the dreamer.”
译文
我九岁的时候住在北卡罗来纳州的一个小镇上,一次在一本儿童杂志的背面友现了一则招聘明信片推销员的广告。我对自己说,我能干这事。我恳求妈妈让我去叫人送来全套货物。两个星期后,货送来了,我一把撕下明信叶上棕色的包装纸,冲出了家门,三个小时后,我的卡片已一张不剩,倒是装着满满一口袋钱回到了家,大叫:“妈妈,所有的人部迫不及待地想要买我的卡片!”一个推销员诞生了。
我十二岁的时候,父亲带我去见齐格·齐格勒先生,我还记得当时坐在昏暗的礼堂里听着齐格勒先生的演说,他把每个人部说得热情高涨、跃跃欲试,离开的时候我觉得自己可以做任何事情。我们上了车,我转向父亲对池说道:“爸爸,我也想让人们这样。”爸爸问我的话是什么意思。“我想当一个象齐格勒先生这样的动员演说者。”我回答道。一个梦想诞生了。
最近,我开始鼓舞他人,努力实现自己的梦想。在此之前的四年里,我在一个拥有100家公司的财团做事,从一个销售培训者做到地区销售经理,在我事业达到颠峰时我离开了这家公司。许多人都十分惊讶,在收入达到六位数时我却选择了离开。他们问我为什么要为了梦想而去冒险。
我是在参加了一次地区销售会议后,才拿定主意离开自己的安全港湾,去开自已的公司的。在那次会议上,我们公司的副总裁做了一次演说,从而改变了我的命运。他问我们:“如果一个神仙会满足你的三个愿望,那人你将会希望得到什么?”他让我们写下自已的愿望,然后问我们:“为什么你们会需要神仙呢?”在那一刻,我永远也忘不了这句话对我的震憾。
我意识到,我有了毕业证书、成功的销售经验、做过无数演讲,为一家拥有100个公司的财团做过销售培训和管理工作——所有这一切部使我为这一刻做好了准备。我准备好了去成为一名动机演说者,不需要神仙的帮助。
当我眼泪汪汪地告诉老板我的计划时,这个我十分尊重的领导,令人难以置信地答道:“勇往向前吧!你一定能够成功。”
我决意刚定,就遭受了考验,我辞职的一个星期后,丈夫也失业了。我们刚刚买了一座新房子,需要双方的工资来付清每个月的抵押贷款,但现在我们却一分收入也没有了。这时我想回公司去,知道他们仍想要我,可是我知道一旦回去就再也出不来了,我决定继续前进,决不做一个满口“如果”、只说不做的人,一个动机演说者诞生了。
我紧紧追随着我的梦想。甚至在最艰苦的时期也不放弃,然后奇迹果真开始出现。短短的时间内,我丈夫找到了一汾更好的工作,我们没有拖欠任何一个月的抵押贷款,我也开始有新客户预约演说。我发现了梦想不可思议的力量。我热爱我过去的工作、我的同事和我离开的那家公司,但是,我实现梦想的时机已经成熟了。为了庆祝我的成功、我清当地一位艺术家将我的新办公室漆成了一座花园,在一面墙的顶端,她刷下了这样一句话:“这个世界永远属于追梦的人。”
Motivation is a skill that we all possess but few of us ever really use. There are times in our lives when we are able to motivate ourselves to overcome almost any difficulty. However, there are also times when it seems like we can’t even motivate ourselves to overcome even the smallest difficulty. What is the secret for mastering your own motivation?
动力是我们人人都拥有的能力,但我们中只有很少的人懂得运用它。在我们的生活中总有这样的时刻,我们能鼓励自己获得动力去克服几乎任何困难。但有些时候,我们却无法获得动力去解决一些看似最小的困难。那么掌控你的动力的奥秘到底是什么呢?
First, find out what makes you want to achieve anything in life. When you have a firm understanding of what drives you to accomplish your goals, you will know how to motivate yourself. Whether the drive comes from finding comfort or from feeling like you have control over your life, it is wise to have a firm understanding of yourself and your values.
首先,要明确是什么令你渴望在一生中有所成就。如果你清晰地了解驱使你达到目标的动力是什么,你便知道了让自己获得动力的方法。无论这种驱动力是来自寻求更多的舒适感还是想要掌控自己的生活,深入了解自己的想法和价值观都是明智的行为。
We each have our own ideas about what is important in our lives. Some people think that money is the answer to everything, so they live their lives and make their decisions based on money. Other people may want to become an important part of their society, so this drives them to achieve whatever they want in their lives.
什么才是生活中重要的东西?对于这个问题,我们各自持有不同看法。有些人认为金钱决定一切事情,因此他们的生活围绕着赚钱,他们的决定是以金钱作为基础的。也许还有些人希望能成为他们所在的社会中一个重要的组成部分,因此这驱使他们一生中不断追求他们渴求的东西。
Knowing what you want and what your values are is a good beginning of learning how to master your own motivation. When you can control your motivation to overcome difficulties, you will be able to accomplish what you want in life.
认识到你内心的想法和你的价值观是开始学习如何获得动力的良好开端。当你可以掌握动力去克服苦难时,你就可以成就人生中的事业。
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