My grandmother was an iron-willed woman, the feared matriarch of our New York family back in the 1950s.
　　When I was five years old, she invited some friends and relatives to her Bronx apartment for a party. Among the guests was a neighborhood big shot who was doing well in business. His wife was proud of their social status and let ev

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　　“月儿呀，你在等候什么呢？”
　　“向我将让位给他的太阳致敬。”
　　Moon, for what do you wait?
　　To salute the sun for whom I must make way.
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　　绿树长到了我的窗前，仿佛是喑哑的大地发出的渴望的声音。
　　The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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　　我的心把她的波浪在世界的海岸上冲激着，以热泪在上边写着她的题记：“我爱你。”

Book on Divine Comedy does Dante differently
What's a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey whose first language was Yiddish doing writing a book about history's greatest Catholic poet, Dante?
Perhaps trying to convince the world that his epic poem, the Divine Comedy, is not just for Ivy League intellectuals but for the common man an

　　There was a naughty boy, 有一个顽皮的孩子，
　　And a naughty boy was he, 顽皮的孩子就是他，
　　He ran away to Scotland 他离家到苏格兰去
The people for to see-- 去看那边的人们
　　Then he found 然后他发现
　　That the ground 那边的地面
　　Was as hard, 一样的坚硬，
　　That a yard 那边的尺码
　　Was as long, 一样的长，
　　That a song 那里的

The word “discovery” literally means, uncovering something that's hidden from view. But what really happens is a change in the viewer. The familiar offers comfort few can resist, and fewer still want to disturb. But as relatively recent inventions such as the telescope and microscope have taught us, the unknown has many layers. Every truth has g

"A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out."
“别人都走开的时候，朋友仍与你在一起。”
Sometimes in life,
有时候在生活中，
You find a special friend;
你会找到一个特别的朋友；
Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.
他只是你生活中的一部分内容，却能改变你整个的生活。
Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;
他会把你逗得开怀大笑；

If I were a Boy Again
If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. "There are only two creatures," syas a proverb, "who can surmount the pyramids—the eagle and t

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
真正的朋友是一个可以援手帮助并感动你心扉的人。
There's always going to be people that hurt you,so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
别人常常伤害你，所以你该继续付出信任，并小心挑选你下次信任的人。
Make youself a better person and know w

　　Henry ford didn't always pay attention in school. One day, he and a friend took a watch apart. Angry and upset, the teacher told him both to stay after school. Their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. But the teacher did not know young ford's genius. In ten minutes, this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on t

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hourss, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。
No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is , won't make you cry.
没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
失去某人，最

To all my friends and loved ones
Love from me
Useful Perspective
致朋友们以及我所爱的人们
这是一份爱的礼物
也是一席金玉良言
If the world were a Village of 100 People
如果世界是个一百人的村落
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the exsting human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like

The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and hrough with profound yet temperate happiness. Healone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past time in a kind of dream. Once conform ,once do what other people do finer than they do

There are gains for all our losses. 我们失去的一切都能得到补偿，
There are balms for all our pain; 我们所有的痛苦都能得到安慰；
But when youth,the dream,departs 可是梦境似的青春一旦消逝，
It takes something from our hearts, 它带走了我们心中的某种美好，
And it never comes again. 从此一去不复返。
We are stronger, and are better, 我们变得日益刚强、更臻完美，
Under manhood's st

The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well, 仰望群星的时分，我一清二楚，
That, for all they care, I can go to hell, 尽管它们关怀备至，我亦有可能赴地府，
But on earth indifference is the least 可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧
We have to dread from man or beast. 人类或禽兽的那份冷漠。
How should we like it were stars to burn 倘若群星燃烧着关怀我们的激情，