书摘

1. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
2. Lead, kindly Light...
     Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see
     The distant scene; one step enough for me.
from a church humn
3. Every day is a new life to a wise man.
4. Happy the man, and happy he alone,
     He, who can call to-day his own:
     He who, secure within, can say:
     "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
Horace
5. Salutation to the Dawn
     Look to this day!
     For it is life, the very life of life.
     In its brief course
     Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
              The bliss of growth
               The glory of action
                The splendour of achievement.
     For yesterday is but a dream
     And tomorrow is only a vision,
     But today well lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness
     And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
     Look well, therefore, to this day!
     Such is the salutation to the dawn.
Kalidasa
6. True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst, Psychologically, I think, it means a release of energy."
Lin Yutang
7. If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
8. Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.
9. I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Tennyson
10. The secret of being miserable is to have the leirsure to bother about you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
11. It is so. It cannot be otherwise.
12. Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.
13. For every ailment under the sun.
       There is a remedy, or there is none;
       If there be one, try to find it;
       If there be none, never mind it.
14. There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
15. The mind is its own place, and in itself
      Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
16. He who conquers his spirit is mightier than he who taketh a city.
17. A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits,a nd you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Emerson "Self-reliance"
18. A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinions of what happens.
19. The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
William James