英语美文10篇

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(1) The Attitude towards Your Life

If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and

the motivation that you need, sometimes all you have to do is shift

your point of view.

By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of

things, you are more likely to have the incentive to follow through

on your goals. You are less likely to be held back by negative ideas

that might limit your performance.

Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you

choose to change your perspective. Don't leave your future to chance,

or wait for things to get better mysteriously on their own. You must

go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations. Begin to build

your confidence, and work through problems rather than avoid them.

Remember that power is not necessarily control over situations, but

the ability to deal with whatever comes your way.

Always believe that good things are possible, and remember that

mistakes can be lessons that lead to discoveries. Take your fear and

transform it into trust; learn to rise above anxiety and doubt. Turn

your "worry hours" into "productive hours". Take the energy that you

have wasted and direct it toward every worthwhile effort that you can

be involved in. You will see beautiful things happen when you allow

yourself to experience the joys of life. You will find happiness when

you adopt positive thinking into your daily routine and make it an

important part of your world.

(2) The Happy Door

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion

an ever-widening circle of ripples. As Stevenson has said, being

happy is a duty.

There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people

are happy for all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical

well-being, since we find beggars, invalids and so-called failures,

who are extremely happy.

Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend. But staying happy

is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character. It is not

selfish to strive for it. It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and

others.

Being unhappy is like an infectious disease. It causes people to

shrink away from the sufferer. He soon finds himself alone, miserable

and embittered. There is, however, a cure so simple as to seem, at

first glance, ridiculous; if you don’t feel happy, pretend to be! It works. Before long you will find that instead of repelling

people, you attract them. You discover how deeply rewarding it is to

be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.

Then the make-believe becomes a reality. You possess the secret

of peace of mind, and can forget yourself in being of service to

others.

Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a

habit, opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with grateful

friends.

(3) The Hidden Gold

There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard. He was very

hard-working, and the farm always prospered under his care. But he

knew that his three sons despised the farm work, and were eager to

make wealth, through adventure.

When the farmer was old, and felt that his time had come to die,

he called the three sons to him and said, "My sons, there is a pot of

gold hidden in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it."

The sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard

the gold was hidden; but he would tell them nothing more.

After the farmer was dead, the sons went to work to find the pot

of gold; since they did not know where the hiding-place was, they

agreed to begin in a line, at one end of the orchard, and to dig

until one of them should find the money.

They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the

orchard to the other, round the tree-roots and between them. But no

pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen

it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits. The three

sons were bitterly disappointed to have all their work for nothing.

The next olive season, the olive trees in the orchard bore more

fruit than they had ever given; when it was sold, it gave the sons a

whole pot of gold. And when they saw how much money had come from the

orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had meant when

he said, "There is gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you

wish it."

(4) Youth

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a

matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of

the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it

is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity

of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often