We'are just beginning "We are reading the first verse of the first chapterof a book whose pages are infinite..." I do not know who wrote those words,but Ihave always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want tomake it.We can take the mysterious,hazy future and carve out of it anything thatwe can imagine,just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone. We areall in the position of the farmer.If we plant a good seed,we reap a goodharvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If weplant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. I want the future to be betterthan the past.I don't want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors whichhistory is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that iswhere we will spend the remainder of our lives. The past is gone and static.Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic.Everything we do will affect it.Each day brings with it new frontiers,in ourhomes and in our business,if we only recognize them.We are just at the beginningof the progress in every field of human endeavor.
Life is hard. We should not give up hope. By the time we have given up, weare finished. Chances are always there. We have to grab every singleopportunity...to help, to love and to serve. To live our life happier, full ofjoy, we have to set our goal and even dream big. If we choose the shortest pathin life, we will never learn. To be or not to be, we have to be SOMEBODY. Thefastest way to gain love is to love others first! Do not hide your talent, yourknowledge and your beautiful heart. Go for your dream and live for it.
生活是艰辛的。我们不应该放弃希望。我们放弃了,我们被完成。机会永远都在那里。我们必须抓住每一个机会,去帮助他们,去爱和服务。我们的人生更快乐,生活充满快乐,我们得把我们的目标,甚至更大的梦想。如果我们选择最短路径在生活中,我们将永远学不会。去做,或是不做,我们必须出人头地。获得爱的最快的方式就是去爱别人!不要隐藏你的才华,你的知识和你的美丽的心。去找你的梦想并生活在其中.
There is no better school than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak,every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve myperformance next time. Never again will I contribute to my downfall by refusingto face the truth and learn from my past mistakes. Because I know: gems cannotshine without polish, and I can not perfect myself without hardship.
Now I know that there are no times in life when opportunity, the chance tobe and do gathers so richly about my soul when it has to suffer cruel adversity.Then everything depends on whether I raise my head or lower it in seeking help.Whenever I am struck down, in the future, by any terrible defeat, I will inquireof myself, after the first pain has passed, how I can turn that adversity intogood. What a great opportunity that moment may present……to take the bitter rootI am holding and transform it into fragrant garden of flowers.
Always will I seek the seed of triumph in every adversity.
逆境是一所最好的学校。每一次失败，每一次打击，每一次损失，都蕴育着成功的萌芽，都教会我在下一次有更出色的表现。我再也不会逃避现实，也不会拒绝从以往的错误中获取经验，我不再因此而促成自己的失败。因为我知道，宝玉不经磨砺就不能发光，没有，我也不能完善自我。
现在我知道，灵魂倍受煎熬的时刻，也正是生命中最多选择与机会的时刻。任何事情的成败取决于我在寻求帮助时是抬起头还是低下头。无论何时，当我被可怕的失败击倒，在最初的阵痛过去之后，我都要想方设法将苦难变成好事。伟大的机遇就在这一刻闪现-这苦涩的根必将迎来满园芬芳!
Your attitude is often one of the first things people notice about you. Youmay not be able to change your height or your body type, but you can change yourattitude. Many researchers believe—and I wholeheartedly agree—that a positiveattitude is not a product of genetics and heredity but, with proper training, anacquired trait. The best thing about your attitude is that if it’s bad, it canbe made better, and if it’s good, it can be made even greater.
你的态度经常是人们首先注意到的内容之一。你也许无法改变你的身高或体型，但是你可以改变你的态度。许多研究者相信——而我也完全同意——积极的态度并不是遗传的结果，而是通过适当的训练获得的一种特征。关于态度，好就好在如果它不好，你可以让它变好一点;如果它已经很好，你可以让它好上加好。
Each of us has the power to choose a positive attitude over a negative one.If you want an attitude that works for you, that improves the quality of yourlife and enables you to accomplish your dreams, you have to work at it. Youcan’t just sit around and wait for a positive attitude.
我们每一个人都有权利放弃消极的态度而选择积极的态度。如果你想让你的态度对你有利、改变你的生活质量并且使你实现你的梦想，那么你就得付出努力。你不能指望干坐着就能把积极态度等到手。