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The motivation to succeed comes from the burning desire to achieve a purpose. Napoleon Hill wrote, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” 成功的行动来自于那燃烧着的想要达成目的的欲望。拿破仑·希尔写道：“成功的意念能够到达个人的构想与信念所能到达的任何地方。” A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet...

Mr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his ball bullet gun. 道森先生是个坏脾气的老头子，镇上的每个人都知道这个。小孩们知道不能到他的院子里摘美味的苹果，甚至掉在地上的也不能捡，因为据他们说，老道森会端着他的弹丸猎枪跟在...

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in the summer, and the youngest son in the fall. 从前有一个人，他有四个儿子。他希望儿子们能学会不急于对事物下...

Once there lived a king of great strength and wealth.Yet he was not happy.He told his servants to find him things to make him happy,but each came back saying,”Noting in the world can match the wonderful things you have already.”Then in that land,there lived a poor man with a patch over one eye and a crutch to help him walk.Although he had little,he was always happy.Whe...

Forty-three years seems like a long time to remember the name of a mere acquaintance. I have forgotten the name of an old lady, who was a customer on the paper route in my home town when I was a twelve-year-old boy. Yet it dwells in my memory that she taught me a lesson in forgiveness that I shall never forget. 记住一个仅是认识的人的名字，43年似乎是段很长的时间。我已经忘了那位老太...

什么叫做non-crying cry？这是男人们专有的一种哭泣方式。也许在婚礼上，女儿和妈妈可以互相抹去眼泪，但是爸爸只能一个人默默回到自己的房间，默默去想念，因为男人是不允许在大庭广众下轻易掉眼泪的。这也是为什么一个父亲会教自己的儿子，如何学会non-crying cry。大家有没有觉得，父亲节或者老爸的生日那天，不管你花多少心思，都难得看到老爸像老妈那样大动感情呢？其实，他只是用另一种方式，流下了作为男...

In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was far beyond Reuben Earle’s means. Five dollars would buy almost a week’s groceries（杂货，食品） for his family. Reuben couldn’t ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made through fishing in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Canada. Reuben...

Golden sunlight danced in the treetops, and children’s laughter filled the park. The smell of popcorn played on（演奏，发生影响） the breeze, and life seemed good. It was one of the happiest Saturday mornings I had spent with my little daughter, Gigi. That is, until two strangers threw her into their car and sped away. It seemed like a bad dream. I could barely whisper when ...

Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates（阐明，说明） the power that words have to change a life — a power that lies right in the hands of those reading this article. Mary had grown up knowing that she was different from the other kids, and she hated it. She was born with a cleft palate（腭裂） and had to bear the jokes and stares（凝视，注视） of cruel childre...

“If I never saw this kid again, Lord, I wouldn’t be sorry!” I thought. Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our laundry room（洗衣间） . Clenched（紧握的） in both hands were new jeans and a shirt belonging to my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. The clothing was already destroyed from burn holes and vomit stains（污点） after a drunken binge（狂欢，放纵） . Exhausted a...