some time ago, sofan and i were visiting some friends in the country. we were staying a beautiful little guest cabin, surrounded by fruit trees, flowers and even a few goats. painted above the doorway in brightly coloured, flowing letters were the words:

much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.

do you have such kind of experience? in a bus you may look at stranger, but not too long. and if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.

lillian bueno mccue/莉莲·比诺·麦丘

what do i believe? what laws do i live by? there are so many answers - work, beauty, truth, love - and i hope i do live by them.

什么是我所信仰的？什么是我生活的准则？答案很多，比如工作、美丽、真理、爱心，但愿我能以它们为准则。

the family had just moved to rhode island，and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that sunday in may. after all，it was mother’s day–and 800 miles separated her from her parents in ohio.

一家人刚移居罗德岛。5月的那个星期天，年轻女人感到有点儿忧伤。毕竟，这一天是母亲节─而她却与俄亥俄州的父母亲遥距800英里。

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.

if you woke up this morning　 若你早晨醒来
with more health than illness,　拥有的健康大于不适

instead of seeing yourself from the outside in, take a look from the inside out and find the way to your happiness.

have you ever asked yourself the question what makes me “me”?

a man is known by the company he keeps they say. if it is so,then everyone is bound to have their baggage of loneliness with them as companions.loneliness is not something that doesn’t exist at all with any human being on earth.every human being feels lonely in his life at some point or other. it’s but natural to have such feeling ,because that’s what makes us all human and that is why we are as we are now.

　　你是否觉得每天都忙忙碌碌、疲于奔命却发现没有时间做自己想做的事？你是否觉得每天就像和时间赛跑，却没有时间体会生命的美好？如果是这样，这篇文章会告诉你如何才能不匆忙，却拥有快乐的、高质量的工作和生活。

　　“nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” lao tzu

　　我们要感谢一切，感谢微笑，感谢哭泣，感谢成功，感谢失败！感谢父母，感谢家庭，感谢老师，感谢伙伴，感谢所有爱我们和我们爱的人！值此感恩节，请不要吝啬我们的感谢，大声说出来吧！

　　be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. if you did, what would there be to look forward to?