If my life were a movie I would fast-forward through junior high. My junior high years were painful. Like every junior high kid, I was dealing with awakening sexuality, and struggling with who I was and how I would make my mark in life. But I was sur

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When Love Beckons You 当爱召唤你 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe i

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I like for you to be still 我喜欢你是静静的 I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you It seems as though your eyes had flown away and it seems that a kiss had seal

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Me and Writing 我笔下的奇异世界 This was the summer that I think I became a writer. I was thirteen years old. I wore steel-rimmed glasses and I was a very solemn boy. Not that I was sad, but I simply was paying attention. I'd been given a typ

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As Anman sat brooding and pining for his lost self, one of Swimmers creekside stories rushed into his memory with a great urgency and attractiveness. Swimmer claimed that above the blue vault of heaven there was a forest inhabited by a celestial race

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Being Young: A State of Mind 保持年轻:一种精神状态 I recently went on a family outing. 我最近参加了一次家庭郊游。 The kids were running around, 孩子们到处乱跑, being crazy like kids do, 就像孩子们那样疯狂,

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Trying New Things Risk and Reward 尝试新事物风险和回报并存 When we try new things, 当我们尝试新事物的时候, there is always the risk that we will not be happy with our choice, 总会有我们将不会满意我们的选择的风险

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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- 有一天,你终于知道, 什么是你必须得做,并开始去做, 虽然你周围的声音, 一直喊出, 其各种糟糕

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The river is famous to the fish. 鱼儿熟知河流。 The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so. 寂静熟知高声。 寂静知道,在任何人发声前, 它会接管地球。 The cat slee

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In the winter of 1997, I saw a Spanish film called Abre Los Ojos. I couldn't get it out of my mind. The movie felt like a folk song to me, part fable, part poem, partly a committed conversation that you'd have with someone late at night when big idea

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On beauty 美 Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech? 如果美不以自身为途径,为向导,你们又到哪里

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A Great Friendship 伟大的友谊 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 托马斯杰斐逊和詹姆斯麦迪逊 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further the America

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Are you happy? I asked my brother, Ian, one day. Yes. No. It depends on what you mean, he said. Then tell me, I said, when was the last time you think you were happy? April 1967, he said. 你幸福吗?一天我问我的兄弟伊恩。 又幸福,又

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I love to have simple ways to improve my life. Everyday is a chance for improving our life, and it's up to us to best use it. What I want is to have good, balanced progress everyday. 我喜欢用简单的方法提升自己的生活质量。对我们来

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What will matter? 什么才重要? Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. 无论是否准

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If the Dream is Big Enough 为了心中的梦想 I used to watch her from my kitchen window, she seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watc

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ChopinThe Beautiful Soul of Music 钢琴诗人肖邦 Can Frederic Chopin, who wrote no symphonies, no operas, and no string quartets, who wrote only for the piano, be considered one of the greatest classical composers of all time? Instrument makers a

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Long Walk to Freedom 漫漫自由路 Then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did. That is when

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A Reason, Season, or Lifetime 你生活中的人们 People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. 人们走进你的生活,或者是为了一个原因,

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Me and My Cello 我和我的大提琴 Six years ago I, then a fellow of 35, was struck by an impulse of the romantic and irreducible sort, which I have since compared to a torrid scene in The Godfather except that it was not a Sicilian virgin who fir

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