【正文】 ent, to overe the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly. 　　 　　Remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day. Reflect on your recovery rate each day. Every day before you go to bed, look at your progress. Don’t lie in bed saying to you, “I did that wrong.” “I should have done better there.” No. look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a full stop after an incident. This is a success. You are taking control of your life. Remember this is a step by step process. This is not a makeover. You are undertaking real change here. Your aim: reduce the time spent in recovery. 　　 　　The way forward? 　　 　　Live in the present. Not in the precedent. 　　 　　 　　 the well went dry。 it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never e to the end of the surprises he has in store for you. For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister. 　　 lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.” 　　 break orders always to save owners。 do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals。 　　 　　To return home at eventide with gratitude。第六篇：What I have Lived for 我為何而生 　　What I Have Lived For 　　 　　Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. 　　 　　I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasyecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves lonelinessthat terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is whatat lastI have found. 　　 　　With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. 　　 　　Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. 　　 　　This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. 　　 第五篇：Ambition 抱負 　　Ambition 　　 　　It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension bee a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart. 　　 　　Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be! 　　 　　There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists。 we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them。 for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, bee our constant panions and forters. 　　 　　Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products。第三篇：Companionship of Books 以書為伴（節(jié)選） 　　Companionship of Books 　　 　　A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the pany he keeps。 so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. 　　 When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20。 it is a state of mind。第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存還是毀滅 　　第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娛樂 　　第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位現(xiàn)在 　　第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式 　　第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心靈的空間 　　第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道 　　第四篇：If I Rest,