【正文】 第十三篇：Be Happy 快樂 Be Happy!“The days that make us happy make us wise.”John Masefieldwhen I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind spots caused by fear.Active happinessnot mere satisfaction or contentment often es suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has acpanied it. The grass is greener。 having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his passion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flipflop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so floodprone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutalthe worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The airconditioned died。 expenditure always within revenue。 never enter a bar room。 nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about. we see the as if they were really alive。 silence would teach him the joys of sound.第一篇：Youth 青春 YouthYouth is not a time of life。第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而為贏 第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面內(nèi)在的敵人 第七篇：When Love Beckons You 愛的召喚 生而為贏——新東方英語背誦美文30篇文本 滬江daisy8475整理歡迎收藏，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)貼，支持購買正版生而為贏——新東方英語背誦美文30篇目錄：第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道 第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式 第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娛樂 it is a state of mind。第三篇：Companionship of Books 以書為伴（節(jié)選） Companionship of BooksA man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the pany he keeps。 we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them。第六篇：What I have Lived for 我為何而生 What I Have Lived ForThree 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. do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals。 lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.” the well went dry。 bird songs are sweeter。 take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion. Then, when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release itreally let go of it. You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do! the other half, they re worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let’s benchmark the parameters: yes, I will die. I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person。 put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket。第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道 The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsbu