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  英文励志文章   《Today I begin a new life》   Today I shed my…

  英文励志文章

  《Today I begin a new life》

  Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediority.

  Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard,for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me,generation upon generation.

  Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me.

  The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.

  Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts which will guide through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream.

  Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle. Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward.

  Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity. Yet within my allotted time I must practice the art of patience for nature acts never in haste. To create the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required. An onion plant is old in nine weeks. I have lived as an onion plant. It has not pleased me. Now I wouldst become the greatest of olive trees and, in truth, the greatest of salesman.

  And how will this be accomplished? For I have neither the knowledge nor the experience to achieve the greatness and already I have stumbled in ignorance and fallen into pools of self-pity. The answer is simple. I will commence my journey unencumbered with either the weight of unnecessary knowledge or the handicap of meaningless experience. Nature already has supplied me with knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.

  In truth, experience teaches thoroughly yet her course of instruction devours men’s years so the value of her lessons diminishes with the time necessary to acquire her special wisdom. The end finds it wasted on dead men. Furthermore, experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow.

  Only principles endure and these I now possess, for the laws that will lead me to greatness are contained in the words of these scrolls. What they will teach me is more to prevent failure than to gain success, for what is success other than a state of mind? Which two, among a thouand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man’s inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

  In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have successed lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is –I will form good habits and become their slave.

  As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my future. My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.

  I will form good habits and become their slave.

  And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls, it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. For it is another of nature’s laws that only a habit can subdue another habit. So, in order for these written words to perform their chosen task, I must discipline myself with the first of my new habits which is as follows:

  I will read each scroll for thirty days in this prescribed manner, before I proceed to the next scroll.

  First, I will read the words in silence when I arise. Then, I will read the words in silence after I have partaken of my midday meal. Last, I will read the words again just before I retire at day’s end, and most important, on this occasion I will read the words aloud.

  On the next day I will repeat this procedure, and I will continue in like manner for thirty days. Then, I will turn to the next scroll and repeat this procedure for another thirty days. I will continue in this manner until I have lived with each scroll for thirty days and my reading has become habit.

  And what will be accomplished with this habit? Herein lies the hidden secret of all man’s accomplishments. As I repeat the words daily they will soon become a part of my active mind, but more important, they will also seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.

  As the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind I will begin to awake, each morning, with a vitality I have never known before. My vigor will increase, my enthusiasm will rise, my desire to meet the world will overcome every fear I once knew at sunrise, and I will be happier than I ever believed it possible to be in this world of strife and sorrow.

  Eventually I will find myself reacting to all situations which confront me as I was commanded in the scrolls to react, and soon these actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy.

  Thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through constant repetiton it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man’s nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will.

  Today I begin a new life.

  And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life’s growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.

  As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity of each scroll nor the simplicity of its words to cause me to treat the scroll’s message lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar with wine, and the grapeskin and pulp are tossed to the birds. So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered and tossed to the wind.Only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to come. I will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. And the seed of success I will swallow.

  Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not , for today I am a new man, with a new life.

  《今天,我天始新的糊口》

  今天,我爬出尽是掉败创伤的老趼。

  今天,我从头来到这个世上,我诞生在葡萄园中,国内的葡萄任人享用。

  今天,我要从最高最密的藤上摘下聪明的果实,这葡萄藤是好几代前的智者种下的。

  今天,我要品味葡萄的甘旨,还要吞下每位成功的种子,让新生命在我心里萌牙。

  我选择的道路布满机缘,也有辛酸与失望.掉败的火伴数不堪数,叠在一路,比金字塔还高。

  但是,我不会像他们一样掉败,由于我手中持有帆海图,可以领我超出澎湃的年夜海,抵达梦中的彼岸.

  掉败不再是我奋斗的价格.它和疾苦都将从我的生射中消逝。掉败和我,就像水火一样,互不相容。我不再像曩昔一样接管它们。我要在聪明的指引下,走出掉败的暗影,步入充足、健康、欢愉的乐土,这些都超越了我以往的胡想. 我如果能永生不老,便可以学到一切,但我不克不及长生,所以,在有限的人生里,我必需学会忍受的艺术,由于年夜天然的行动一贯是自在不迫的.造物主缔造树中之王橄摊树需要一百年的时候,而洋葱颠末短短的九个礼拜就会枯老.我不迷恋畴前那种洋葱式的糊口,我要成为万树之王–橄榄树,成为实际糊口中最伟年夜的推销员.

  怎样可能?我既没有赅博的常识,又没有丰硕的经验,何况,我曾一度跌入愚笨与自怜的深渊.谜底很简单。我不会让所谓的常识或经验故障我的行程.造物生已赐赉我足够的常识和本能,这份先天是其它生物瞠乎其后的。经验的价值常常被高估了,人老的时辰启齿讲的多是胡涂话.说其实的,经验确切能教给我们良多工具,只是这需要破费太长的时候.比及人们取得聪明的时辰,其价值已跟着时候的磨灭而削减了.成果常常是如许,经验丰硕了,人也余生无多.经验和时另有关,合适某一时期的行动,其实不寻味着在今天依然行得通。

  只有原则是持久的,而我此刻正具有了这些原则.这些可以指引我走向成功的原则全写在这几张羊皮卷里.它教我若何避免掉败,而不只是取得成功,由于成功更是一种精力状况.人们对成功的界说,见仁见智,而掉败却常常只有一种诠释:掉败就是一小我没能到达他的人生方针,非论这些方针是甚么。

  事实上,成功与掉败的最年夜分野,来自分歧的习惯。好习惯是开启成员的钥匙,坏习惯则是一扇向掉败敞开的门。是以,我起首要做的即是养成杰出的习惯,经心全意去实施。

  小时辰.我常会豪情用事,长年夜成人了,我要用杰出的习惯取代一时的感动。我的自由意志屈就于多年养成的恶习,它们要挟着我的前程。我的行动遭到咀嚼、感情、成见、愿望、爱、惊骇、情况和习惯的影响,此中最利害的就是习惯。是以.若是我必需受习惯安排的话,那就让我受好习惯的安排。那些坏习惯必需戒除,我要在新的地步里播种好的种子。 我要养成杰出的习惯,经心全意去实施。

  这不是垂手可得的工作,要如何才能做到呢,靠这些羊皮卷就可以做到。由于每~卷里都写着一个原则,可以摒除-项坏习惯,换取一个好习惯,令人前进,走向成功。这也是天然法例之一,只有一种习惯才能按捺另外一种习惯。所以,为了走好我选择的道路,我必需养成的第一个习惯

  每张羊皮卷用三十天的时候浏览,然后再进人下一卷。 早晨即起,默默朗读;午餐以后,再次默读;夜晚睡前,大声朗诵。

  第二天的景象完全一样。如许反复三十天后,便可以打开下一卷了。每卷都遵照一样的方式读上三十天,长此以往,它们就成为一种习惯了。

  这些习惯有甚么益处呢?这里隐含着人类成功的法门。当我天天反复这些话的时辰,它何成了我精力勾当的一部门,更主要的是,它们渗透我的心灵。拥是个神秘的世界,永不静止,缔造黑甜乡,在不知不觉中影响我的行动。

  当这些羊皮卷上的文字,被我奇奥的心灵完全接收以后,我天天城市布满活力地醒来。我历来没有如许精神充分过。我更有活力,更有热忱,要向世界挑战的愿望降服了一切惊骇与不安。在这个布满争斗和哀痛的世界里,我居然比之前更快乐。 最后,我会发现本身有了应付一切环境的法子。不久,这些法子就可以应用自若.由于,任何方式,只要多操练,就会变得简单易行。

  颠末屡次反复,一种看似复杂的行动就变得垂手可得,实施起来,就会有没有限的乐趣,有了乐趣,出于人之本性,我就更甘愿答应常去实施。因而,一种好的习惯便降生了.习惯成为天然。既是一种好的习惯,也就是我的意原。

  今天,我天始新的糊口.

  我慎重地立誓,毫不让任何工作故障我新生命的成长。在浏览这些羊卷的时辰,我毫不华侈一天的时候,由于光阴一去不返,掉去的日子是没法填补的。我也毫不打破天天浏览的习惯。事实上,天天在这些新习惯上破费少量时候,相对可能取得的愉乐与成功而言,只是眇乎小哉的价格。 当我浏览羊皮卷中的字句时,毫不能出为文字的精辟而轻忽内容的深邃深挚。一瓶葡萄琼浆需要千百颗果子酿制而成,果皮和渣子抛给小鸟。葡萄的聪明代代相传,有些被过滤,有些被裁减,随风飘逝。只有纯粹的真谛才是永久的。它们就精辟在我要浏览的文字中。我要遵照唆使,毫不华侈,饮下成功的种子。

  今天,我的老趼化为尘埃。我在人群中举头阔步,不会有人认出我来,由于我不再是曩昔的本身、我已具有新的生命。

关于作者: 励志人生

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