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Two Commandments Are Enough By Peggy Wood Occasionally my mother used to announce that she was going to take time out from the day's activities to rest, she would say, and to invite my soul. She always put the phrase in quotes, in order, I expect, to
I Never Stopped Believing by Eva Saxl I believe that it is important to be brought up with a firm belief in the good. I was fortunate in this respect. My parents not only gave me a happy home, but they had me study half a dozen foreign languages and
I Call Things As I See Them by Ralph Pinelli An umpire has to make instant decisions. Ive learned to call things as I see them. This helps me make a quick reply to such an important and personal question as my belief. My philosophy of life is simple,
How to Refill an Empty Life by Albert J Nesbitt One day about fifteen years ago I suddenly came face to face with myself and realized there was something quite empty about my life. My friends and associates perhaps didnt see it. By the generally acce
One Girl Changed My Life by Rose Resnick My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dra
And Now You're Mine 现在,你是我的 And now you are mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain and work should all sleep now. The night turns on its invisible wheels, And you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber. No one else, love, w
Courteous Retort A learned scientist was attending a dinner, and as cigars were being indulged in one of the guests began to deride philosophy. He went on rudely to express the opinion that philosopher was but another way of spelling fool. What is yo
The Library of Congress is America's national library. It has more thanone-hundred-twenty-million books and other objects. It has newspapers, popular publications and letters of historical interest.It also has maps, photographs, art prints, movies, s
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion
The place is full of mothers A small boy losing his mother in a supermarket ran through the ells ,yelling frantically, Eileen,Eileen .When his mother found him, she scolded him,Bobi,it isnt polite to call me Eileen, you should always call me mother.
Nails In The Fence There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into
When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books:How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan L
I Think I Can If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't; If you want to win but think you can't; It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you're lost; For out of the world we find Success begins with a
If the Dream is Big Enough(I)---为了心中的梦想(一) I used to watch her from my kitchen widow, 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 wa
The World as I See It My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone traveler and have ne
Hints For Those That Would Be Rich The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money. For £6 a Year you may have the Use of £100 if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty. He that spends a Grout a day idly, spends idly above £
Reading Good Books Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating reading, a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book- lovers have some noteworthy advantages over othe
Not included Tom see an advertisement in the newspaper for a beautiful modern bicycle which cost $89 dollars. So he went to the shop which put the advertisement in and asked to see one of the wonderful bicycles. The shopkeeper was very happy to show
Arabian Wisdom The heart is the noblest member of the body. A wise man said that the worst of men is he who allows an evil desire to take root in his heart; for he shall lose his manhood. A poet said: The wise will keep His treasure hid apart; True g
The Story of a Fire Thirteen years have passed since, but it is all to me as if it had happened yesterday, -- the clanging of the fire-bells, the hoarse shouts of the firemen, the wild rush and terror of the streets; then the great hush that fell upo