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01. Love 爱
02. Do Not Pass Judgement on One Another 不可论断弟兄
03. The Way of Love 爱的颂歌
04. Keeping Pleasant 保持快乐
05. Keep Your Cool 保持冷静
06. Ambition 抱负
07. Never Stop Dreaming 别停下梦想的脚步
08. Secrets of Successes 成功的秘诀
09. Excerpt from Genesis 1 《创世纪》节选(1)
10. Excerpt from Genesis 2 《创世纪》节选(2)
11. The Second Chapter of Tao Te Ching 《道德经》第二章
12. The Third Chapter of Tao Te Ching 《道德经》第三章
13. The Eighth Chapter of Tao Te Ching 《道德经》第八章
14. The Twelfth Chapter of Tao Te Ching 《道德经》第十二章
15. Solitude 独处
16. The Pleasure of Reading 读书的乐趣
17. Imagine Yourself in Others’ Position 换位思考
18. Marks of the True Christian 基督徒的生活守则
19. Three Days to See 假如给我三天光明
20. The Living Present 今
21. Money Isn’t Everything 金钱不是万能的
22. Old Age and Young 老与少
23. How to Grow Old? 老之将至
24. Six Famous Words 六字箴言
25. Of Leadership 论领导能力
26. Of Studies 论学习
27. Book Four of the Analects 《论语 里仁》节选
28. Book Twelve of the Analects 《论语 颜渊》节选
29. Of Nature 论自然
30. Act at Once 马上行动
31. Compulsion and Control 强迫与控制
32. Words about Life 人生小语
33. A Psalm of Life 人生礼颂
34. If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息,我就会生锈
35. Teachers and Students 师生
36. The Ten Commandments 十诫
37. Death 死亡
38. The Road not Taken 未选之路
39. What I Have Lived For 我的人生哲学
40. The World as I See It 我的世界观
41. The Woman Who Fears the Lord 贤妇赞
42. New Life 新生活
43. The Meaning of Happiness 幸福的定义
44. The Companionship of Books 以书为伴
內容試閱:
Love
爱
导读
从古至今,无数人想尽办法寻找爱情……可结果有人欢喜有人忧……你感觉她来了,其实她已经走了;你感觉她走了,她其实却已经在你的身边了。这就是她的属性:捉摸不定……
Who can say in remoteness〇1 of time, in what difference of earthly shape love first comes to us as a stranger in the jungle? We, in our human family, know him through dependence in childhood, through possession in youth, through sorrow and loss in their season.
In childhood we are happy to receive; it is the first opening of love. In youth we take and give, dedicate and possess—rapture and anguish are mingled, until parenthood brings a dedication that, to be happy, must ask for no return.
All these are new horizons of content, which the lust of holding, the enemy of love, slowly contaminates. Loss, sorrow and separation come, sickness and death; possession, that tormented us, is nothing in our hands; it vanishes.