【正文】 it entails a sense of personal efficacy and a sense of personal is the integrated sum of selfconfidence and is the conviction that one is petent to live and worthy of selfesteem and selfimage are developed by how we talk to of us have conscious and unconscious memories of all the times we felt bad or wrong—they are part of the unavoidable scars of is where the critical voice gets has a critical inner with low selfesteem simply have a more vicious and demeaning inner say that almost every aspect of our lives—our personal happiness, success, relationships with others, achievement, creativity, dependencies—are dependent on our level of more we have, the better we deal with selfesteem is important because when people experience it,they feel good and look good, they are effective and productive,and they respond to other people and themselves in healthy, positive, growing who have positive selfesteem know that they are lovable and capable,and they care about themselves and other do not have to build themselves up by tearing other people downor by patronizing less petent background largely determines what we will bee in personalityand more importantly in do feelings of worthlessness e from?Many e from our families,since more than 80% of our waking hours up to the age of eighteenare spent under their direct are who we are because of where we’ve build our own brands of selfesteem from four ingredients:fate, the positive things life offers, the negative things life offersand our own decisions about how to respond to fate, the positives and the fate nor decisions can be determined by other people in our own one can change can control our thinking and therefore our decisions in life.Passage 15. Struggle for FreedomIt is not possible for me to express all that I feel of appreciation for what has been said and given to accept, for myself, with the conviction of having receivedfar beyond what I have been able to give in my can only hope that the many books which I have yet to writewill be in some measure a worthier acknowledgment than I can make , indeed, I can accept only in the same spiritin which I think this gift was originally given—that it is a prize not so much for what has been done, as for the I write in the future must, I think,be always benefited and strengthened when I remember this accept,too, for my country,the United States of are a people still young and we know that we have not yet e to the fullest of our award, given to an American, strengthens not only one,but the whole body of American writers,who are encouraged and heartened by such generous I should like to say, too, that in my countryit is important that this award has been given to a who have already so recognized your own Selma Lagerlof,and have long recognized women in other fields,cannot perhaps wholly understand what it means in many countriesthat it is a woman who stands here at this I speak not only for writers and for women, but for all Americans,for we all share in should not be truly myself if I did not, in my own wholly unofficial way,speak also of the people of China,whose life has for so many years been my life also,whose life,indeed, must always be a part of my minds of my own country and China, my foster country, are alike in many ways,but above all, alike in our mon love of today more than ever, this is true,now when China39。 —an alarm of fire。 —a tumult。 hoofs sounds from the wooden all is still save the continuous wind or the sound of the neighboring village clock strikes。except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls,and cicada, chirping its dry hot chirp, like a very dust was scorched brown,and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were , shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to deep out the it but a chink or a keyhole,and it shot in like a whitehot arrow.Passage 12. NightNight has fallen over the the trees rises the red moon and the stars are scarcely the vast shadow of night, the coolness and the dews sit at the open window to enjoy them。so did their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened。but, if I did, even so long should I have the money to pay my rent and buy my am no I to think that I should die away from England, the thought would be dreadful to in England, this is the place of my choice。but never till now with that sense of security which makes a any moment I might have been driven forth by evil accident, by disturbing all that time did I say within myself:Some day, perchance, I shall have a home。s home is fort。I can open or close a window without to such trifles as the color and device of wallpaper, I confess my indifference。 the work in wood and plaster tells of a more leisurely and a more honest age than stairs do not creak under my step。just that superfluity of inner space, to lack which is to be less than at one39。am I to go back, in a blink, in the same stark nakedness?It is not fair though:why should I have made such a trip for nothing!You the wise, tell me,why should our days leave us, never to return?Passage 100 My Perfect HouseMy house is great good fortune I have found a housekeeper no less to my mind,a lowvoiced, lightfooted woman of discreet age, strong and deft enough to render me all the service I require,and not afraid of rises very my breakfasttime there remains little to be done under the roof save dressing of rarely do I hear even a clink of crockery。yet in between, how fast is the shift, in such a rush?When I get up in the morning,the slanting sun marks its presence in my small room in two or three sun has feet, look, he is treading on, lightly and furtively。willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening。s bodies while, close at hand,surgeons use it to restore them?We have to ask ourselves very seriously what will happen if this twofold use of knowledge,with its everincreasing power, continues.Passage 8. 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