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Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not solve my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.
就为了今天，我将尽力只度过今天而不立刻去解决终身的问题。对一件令我沮丧而又必须坚持一辈子的事，我只能坚持十二个小时。

Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said，that "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
就为了今天，我会很快乐。亚伯拉罕-林肯说过，“大多数人都是决定想怎么高兴就怎么高兴。”这已经被认为是真理。
Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my "luck" as it comes.
就为了今天，我会做自我调整适应事物本来的面目，而不是想方设法使每一件事满足自己的欲望。当机会来临的时候我会抓住它。

Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.
就为了今天，我会尽力心强志坚。我会学习，学一些有用的东西。我不会做一个精神上的流浪汉。我会读一些需要努力、思考和注意力集中的东西。
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways. I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out: If anybody knows of it, it will not count. I will do at least two things I don't want to do—just for exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt: they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.
就为了今天，我会用三种方法来磨炼我的灵魂。我会做对某人有利的事但不能被发现，若有人发现了就不算数。我将会做至少两件我不愿做的事情——只为了磨练。我不会让任何人感到我的感情受到了伤害：它们可能受到了伤害，但今天我不想表现出来。
Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit，and try not to improve or regulate anybody but myself.
就为了今天，我会过得很惬意。看起来我达到了最佳状态，穿着得体、讲话谦虚、行为礼貌、一点不吹毛求疵，尽量改进和调节自己而不是别人。

Just for today I will have a program, I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.
就为了今天，我会制定一个计划，我也许不会严格地遵守它，但我一定要有计划。我会避免两种错误：仓促行事和优柔寡断。
Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I will try to get a better perspective of my life.
就为了今天，我将会独自静静地呆上半小时放松。在这半小时里，某个时刻，我会日后对我的生活有个更好的看法。
Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful，and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.
就为了今天，我将不再害怕。尤其我不会再害怕享受美丽的事物，并且相信我给予世界的，世界也会给予我。

Let me state them:Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.
不要跟人攀比而妄自菲薄，
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
我们的独特之处正在于与众不同。
Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.
不要按别人的标准设定目标，
Only you know what is best for you.
只有你自己才明白什么最合适。
Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart.
不要对内心深处的东西漠然视之。

Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
对待它们要像性命一样看重,没有它们生活就没有意义。
Do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future.
不要沉迷往事或者只在意将来而让生命从指缝间流失。
By living your life one day at a time, you live all of the days of your life.
生活要一天天度过，生命的每一天才过充实。
Do not give up when you still have something to give.
只要还能给予就不要轻易放弃。
Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
除非你停止努力，一切都没有真正终结。
It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other.
靠着脆弱的联系我们才聚在一起。

Do not be afraid to encounter risks.
不怕遭遇风险，
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
正是通过承担风险我们学会了勇敢。
Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossbile to find.
不要说爱情难觅而拘之门外，
The quickest way to receive love is to give love.
得到爱情的最快是奉献爱。
The fastest way to lose love is hold it tightly.
失去爱的最快方法是抓得太紧。
In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
守护爱的最佳方式是给它装上翅膀。
Do not dismiss your dream.
不要摒弃梦想，
To be without dream is to be without hope.
没有梦想就没有希望，
To be without hope is to be without purpose.
没有希望就没有目标。
Do not run through your life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going.
不要匆匆忙忙过生活，忘记了曾经抵达何处，又举步何处。
Life is not race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
生活不是一场赛跑。而是一次时时驻足观赏的旅行。

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A most curious and useful thing to realize is that one never knows the impression one is creating on otherpeople. One may often guess pretty accurately whether it is good, bad, or indifferent — some people render it unnecessary for one to guess, they practically inform one — but that is not what I mean. I mean muchmore than that. I mean that one has one's self no mental picture corresponding to the mental picture whichone's personality leaves in the minds of one's friends. Has it ever struck you that there is a mysterious individual going around, walking the streets, calling at houses for tea, chatting, laughing, grumbling, arguing, and that all your friends know him and have long since added him up and come to a definite conclusion about him — without saying more than a chance, cautious word to you; and that that person is you? Supposing that you came into a drawing room where you were having tea, do you think you would recognize yourself as an individuality? I think not. You would be apt to say to yourself as guests do when disturbed in drawing rooms by other guests: “Who's this chap? See ms rather queer. I hope he won't be a bore.” And yourfirst telling would be slightly hostile. Why, even when you meet yourself in an unsuspected mirror in the very clothes that you have put on that very day and that you know by heart, you are almost always shocked by the realization that you are you. And now and then, when you have gone to the glass to arrange your hair in the full sobriety of early morning, have you not looked on an absolute stranger, and has not that stranger piqued your curiosity? And if it is thus with precise external details of form, colour, and movement, what may it not be with the vague complex effect of the mental and moral individuality?

一件认识起来很奇异也很受益的事是，一个人常常不清楚别人对他的印象是什么。是好呢，是坏呢，还是不好不坏，这些倒是能够十分准确地猜测出来——有些人甚至没有必要让你去猜测，他们差不多就讲给你听了——但是我想要说的不是这个。我想要说的远不止这个。我想要说的是，一个人头脑中对自己的印象和他本人在他朋友们头脑中的印象，往往很不一致。你曾经想到这样的事吗?——世上有那么一个诡异的人，到处跑来跑去，上街访友，又说又笑，口出怨言，大发议论，他的朋友都对他很熟悉，对他早已知根知底，对他的看法早有定论——但除了偶尔且谨慎的只言片语外，平时却很少对你透露。而那个人就是你自己。比如，你走进一家客厅去喝茶，你敢说你便能认得这个人就是你自己吗?我看不一定。很可能，你也会像客厅里的客人那样，当你难以忍受其他客人的骚扰时心里就盘算说：“这是哪个家伙，真是怪异。但愿他少讨人嫌。”你的第一个反应就是略带敌意。甚至就连你突然在一面镜子前面遇到了你自己，穿的衣服也正是你心里记得很清楚的那天的服装，怎么样，你还是会因为认出了你是你这件事而感到吃惊。还有当你有时到镜子前去整理头发时，尽管是在最清醒的大清早时刻，你不是也好像瞥见一个完全陌生的人吗？而且这陌生人还让你颇为好奇呢。如果说连形式颜色动作这类外观准确的细节都是这样，那么对于像心智和道德这种不易把握的复杂效果又将怎样呢？

A man honestly tries to make a good impression. What is the result? The result merely is that his friends,in the privacy of their minds, set him down as a man who tries to make a good impression. If much depends on the result of a sing le interview, or a couple of interviews, a man may conceivably force another to accept an impression of himself which he would like to convey. But if the receiver of the impression is to have time at his disposal, then the giver of the impression may just as well sit down and put his hands in his pockets, for nothing that he can do will modify or influence in any way the impression that he will ultimately give. The real impress is, in the end, given unconsciously, not consciously; and further, it is received unconsciously, not consciously. It depends partly on both persons. And it is immutably fixed beforehand. There can be no final deception…

有人真心实意地去努力留下一个好印象。但结果怎样呢，不过是被他的朋友们在内心深处认为他是一个刻意给人留下好印象的人。如果一切只凭着单独会一次面或见几次面，——这个人倒很能迫使另一个人接受他本人希望造成的某种印象。但是如果接受印象的人有足够的时间来自由支配，那么印象的给予者就干脆束手静坐了，因为他的所有招数都丝毫改变不了或影响不了他最终所造成的印象。真正的印象是在结尾，是无意而不是刻意造成的。同时，它也是无意而不是刻意接受的。它的形成要靠双方，而且是事先就已经确定的，最终的欺骗是不可能的……

here are times when we are faced with illnesses, disorders, disabilities some type of tragedy that causes us to lose contact with ourselves and the world in which we live. Our happiness begins to fade and our heart begins to grow heavy. This affects the way we think, live, feel and the way we look at life.

有时候我们会遭遇疾病，混乱，无力等一些灾难，这些灾难会暂时使我们迷失自我，并与这个我们赖以生存的世界失去联系。我们的快乐开始褪却，我们的内心开始变得沉重。这一切影响着我们的思维，生活，感情以及对待生活的方式。

None of us can be happy all the time. During times of tragedy, it is natural and even beneficial to be sad, but not to hold unhappy, anger or any negative emotion that takes control. We must heal ourselves emotionally and spiritually.
Talk with optimistic and encouraging people for they bring a sense of hope into the world, a new meaning to life. They help you see past the clouds on a glooming day，they bring sunlight everyday.

没有人始终都保持着快乐。当身处灾难时，悲伤是自然的，也是非常有益的。但不要让不愉快，愤怒或任何消极的情绪操控你的生活。我们必须从情绪上和精神上治愈我们心灵上的创伤。

去和积极乐观的人们聊聊天，因为他们带给世界一线希望，带给生活新的意义。他们会帮助你在阴郁的天气里抹去乌云。

Happiness is when you are with people who love you for who you are, this is the true meaning of love and friendship. Each day you are reborn with love and joy when you realize that you have people by your side that care.

当你和真正关爱你的人在一起时，这才是快乐，同时这也是爱与友谊的真正含义。每天当你意识到有人在你身边关爱着你时，你便和爱与喜悦一起重生。

Reflections of a Mother

慈母心曲

I gave you life, but I cannot live it for you.

我给了你生命，但不能替你生活。

I can teach you things, but I cannot make you i learn.

我能教你知识，但不能强迫你学习。

I can give you directions, but I cannot be there to lead you.

我能为你指路，但不能为你引路。

I can allow you freedom, but I cannot account for it.

我能让你自由，但不能带给你自由。

I can take you to church, but I cannot make you believe.

我能带你做礼拜，但不能强迫你信教。

I can teach you right from wrong, but I can not always decide for you.

我能教你区别是非，但不能事事为你做主。

I can buy you beautiful cloths, but I cannot make you beautiful inside.

我能为你添置漂亮的衣裳，但不能让你拥有美丽的心灵。

I can offter you advice, but I cannot accept it for you.

我能给你忠告，但不能代你接受忠告。

I can give you love, but I cannot force it upon you.

我能给你母爱，但不能强迫你接受母爱。

I can teach you to share, but I cannot make you unselfish.

我能教你与人分享，但不能强迫你做一个无私的人。

I can teach you respect, but I cannot force you to show honor.

我能教你尊敬别人，但不能强迫你待人以敬。

I can advise you about friend, but cannot choose them for you.

我能建议你如何交友，但不能替你选择朋友。

I can advise you about sex, but I cannot keep you pure.

我能在性方面给你忠告，但不能让你守身如玉。

I can tell you the facts of life, but I cannot build your reputation.

我能教你性知识，但不能为你树美名。

I can tell you about drink, but I cannot say "no"for you.

我能教你如何饮酒，但不能替你对酒说“不”。

I can warn you about drugs, but I cannot prevent you from using them.

我能告诫你不要吸毒，但不能制止你吸毒。

I can tell you about lofty goals, but I cannot achieve them for you.

我能教你志存高远，但不能替你实现远大的目标。

I can teach you about kindness, but I cannot force you to be gracious.

我能教你与人为善，但不能强迫你宽以待人。

I can warn you about sins, but I cannot make you moral.

我能告诫你勿以恶小而为之，但不能强迫你尽善尽美。

I can love you as a child, but I cannot place you in Gods family.

我能爱你，我的孩子，但不能让你投胎在上帝之家。

I can pray for you, but I cannot make you walk with God.

我能为你祈祷，但不能让你与上帝同行。

I can teach you about jusus, but I cannot make jesus your lord.

我能跟你讲基督，但不能让基督成为你的主。

I can tell you how to live, but I cannot give you eternal life.

我能教你如何生活，但不能让你长生不老。

I can love you with unconditional love all of my life...and I will!

我能爱你一辈子，毫无保留......说到做到！

They are the principles on which my wife and I have tried to bring up our family .They are the principles in which my father believed and by which he governed his life .They are the principles,many of them ,whichI learned at my mother's knee.
They point the way to usefulness and happiness in life, to courage and peace in death.
If they mean to you what they mean to me, they may perhaps be helpful also to our sons for their guidance and inspiration.
Let me state them:

这些信条是我太太和我努力用以持家育子的原则。它们是我父亲深信不疑并籍以安身立命的原则。其中有很多是我在母亲膝前学到的原则。

这些信条指出了一条活得快乐有用、死得勇敢安详的道路。

如果它们对你的意义正如对我的一样,它们或许也将有助于我们的子女从中获得引导和启发。

让我陈述如下:

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life ,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility;every opportunity ,an obligation ;every possession,a duty.
I believe that the law was made for the man and not man for the law;that government is the servant of people and not their master.
I believe in the dignity of the labor,whether with head or hand;that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
I believe that thrift is essential to wellordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure,whether in government,business or personal affairs.
I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.
I believe in the sacredness of a promise,that a man's word should be as good as his bond,the character--not wealth or power or position--is of supreme worth.
I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.
I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God,named by whatever name,and that the individual's highest fulfillment,greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmory with His will.
I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world;that it alone can overcome hate;that right can and will triumph over might.

我相信个人至高无上的价值及生存、自由与追求幸福的权利。

我相信每一项权利都伴随着一种职责；每一个机会都伴随着一份义务；每一次都拥有都伴随着一种责任。

我相信法律是为人制订,人却并非为法律而存在；政府是人民的仆人,而非人民的主人。

我相信劳动的尊严,不论是脑力或体力劳动；世界不应给予任何人生计,但它应给予每人一个谋生的机会。

我相信俭朴是井然有序的生活所必须；节约是健全的财务结构之必要,不论是政府、企业或个人事物皆是如此。

我相信真理与正义是社会秩序长久维系的基础。

我相信诺言的神圣,一句承诺应该如同契约一般有效；品格——而非财富、权势或地位——具有至为崇高的价值。
我相信报效社会是人类共同的责任；惟有在牺牲奉献的炼火中,自私自利的渣滓才能烧毁,而人类灵魂的伟大也才能发挥出来。

我相信全能博爱的上帝,不论其名称为何；而个人最高的成就,最大的幸福以及最大的作用都在符合上帝意旨的生活中才能找到。

我相信爱是世界上最伟大之物；惟有爱能够克服仇恨；公理能够而且必将战胜强权。

There sre the principles,however formulated,for which all good men and women throughout the world,irrespective of race or creed,education,social position or occupation,are standing,and for which many of them are suffering and dying.
These are the principles upon which alone a new world recognizing the bortherhood of man the fatherhood ofGod can be established.

不管如何阐述,这些就是全世界所有善良的男女——不分种族、信仰、教育、社会地位或职业——所共同坚持的原则,而为了这些原则,他们当中许多人正饱受煎熬或濒临死亡。

惟有在这些信条的基础上 ,一个认同人类手足情和上帝慈父爱的世界才能建立起来。

It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find it easy to condone them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together.

让人奇怪的是，和别人的过错比起来，我们自身的过错往往不是那样的可恶。我想，其原因应该是我们知晓一切导致自己犯错的情况，因此能够设法谅解自己的错误，而别人的错误却不能谅解。我们对自己的缺点不甚关注，即便是深陷困境而不得不正视它们的时候，我们也会很容易就宽恕自己。据我所知，我们这样做是正确的。缺点是我们自身的一部分，我们必须接纳自己的好和坏。

But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves fro which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred？

但是当我们评判别人的时候，情况就不同了。我们不是通过真实的自我来评判别人，而是用一种自我形象来评判，这种自我形象完全摒弃了在任何世人眼中会伤害到自己的虚荣或者体面的东西。举一个小例子来说：当觉察到别人说谎时，我们是多么地蔑视他啊！但是，谁能够说自从未说过谎？可能还不止一百次呢。

There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, Ido not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as wellas to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.

人和人之间没什么大的差别。他们皆是伟大与渺小，善良与邪恶，高尚与低俗的混合体。有的人性格比较坚毅，机会也比较多，因而这个或那个方面，能够更自由地发挥自己的禀赋，但是人类的潜能却都是相同的。至于我自己，我认为自己并不比大多数人更好或者更差，但是我知道，假如我记下我生命中每一次举动和每一个掠过我脑海的想法的话，世界就会将我视为一个邪恶的怪物。每个人都会有这样的怪念头，这样的认识应当能够启发我们宽容自己，也宽容他人。同时，假如因此我们得以用幽默的态度看待他人，即使是天下最优秀最令人尊敬的人，而且假如我们也因此不把自己看得过于重要，那是很有裨益的。

Five Minutes to Spare抽出五分钟

No matter how busy you are,

无论你有多忙

you could spend five minutes,

你都可以抽出五分钟来：

To answer the telephone

听一听电话

To read the morning paper

读一读早报

To talk with a neighbor

跟邻居谈一谈

To dispute with the laundryman about a mistake

跟洗衣工为一个错误争议一番

To watch new furniture being unloaded next door

看一看隔壁卸下来的新家具

To chat with a salesman

与推销员聊聊天

To read a trivial letter

阅读一封微不足道的信

Or to write one

或者写一封信

To say a prayer for the suffering friend

为受苦的朋友祈祷

To stop and think of Gods daily gift of mercy

停下来想想神的恩赐

To remember the cross

记住你彷徨的时候

To make an act of faith, hope and love

做一件充满信念、希望和爱的事情

To whisper an “Our Father” or “Hail Mary” for someone in need

对需要帮助的人默默祈祷

To say a decade of the Rosary for the pour souls

为那些失意的灵魂念无数遍《玫瑰经》

To visit the little statue or picture on the mantle place and tell the Savior how much you love Him

看看壁炉架上的小雕像或照片，告诉救世主你有多么爱他

To make a spiritual communion

进行一次思想交流

Which is the better way to spend five minutes?

哪种是更好的五分钟消遣方式呢？

Every second, we have the opportunity to make the next second greater than now.

每一秒，我们都有机会让下一秒变得比现在更好。

Because destiny isn't a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice.

因为真正决定命运的不是运气，而是选择。

So let go of what others want you to be.

所以，放下世俗中别人对你的期望。

Change is in all of us.

改变在于我们的内心。

And the only person your destiny to become, is the person you decide to be.

所以你的命运在于你选择成为什么样的人。

Change destiny.

改写命运。

Life's Journey

生命是一场旅行

Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.

不要跟人攀比而妄自菲薄，

It is because we are different that each of us is special.

我们的独特之处正在于与众不同。

Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.

不要按别人的标准设定目标，

Only you know what is best for you.

只有你自己才明白什么最合适。

Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart.

不要对内心深处的东西漠然视之。

Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

对待它们要像性命一样看重,没有它们生活就没有意义。

Do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future.

不要沉迷往事或者只在意将来而让生命从指缝间流失。

By living your life one day at a time, you live all of the days of your life.

生活要一天天度过，生命的每一天才过充实。

Do not give up when you still have something to give.

只要还能给予就不要轻易放弃。

Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

除非你停止努力，一切都没有真正终结。

It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other.

靠着脆弱的联系我们才聚在一起。

Do not be afraid to encounter risks.

不怕遭遇风险，

It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

正是通过承担风险我们学会了勇敢。

Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossbile to find.

不要说爱情难觅而拘之门外，

The quickest way to receive love is to give love.

得到爱情的最快是奉献爱。

The fastest way to lose love is hold it tightly.

失去爱的最快方法是抓得太紧。

In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

守护爱的最佳方式是给它装上翅膀。

Do not dismiss your dream.

不要摒弃梦想，

To be without dream is to be without hope.

没有梦想就没有希望，

To be without hope is to be without purpose.

没有希望就没有目标。

Do not run through your life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going.

不要匆匆忙忙过生活，忘记了曾经抵达何处，又举步何处。

Life is not race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

生活不是一场赛跑。而是一次时时驻足观赏的旅行。