晨读英文美文100篇

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ly addresses this dilemma:A Thinking TestYou are driving along on a wild, stormy pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who is sick and about to die. 2. An old friend who once saved your life. 3. The perfect man or woman you have been dreaming about. Which one would you choose to pick up, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car?The candidate who was hired simply answered:I would give the car keys to my old friend, and let him take the lady to the would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams.Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought limitations and think outside the , like me, you are looking at a decision that makes you feel forced to choose between plan A or plan B,and neither plan by itself seems like the right decision, stretch your mind to consider plans C or D,to a third option that solves the problem in a whole new that there is a solution you haven39。 t yet thought of,which will enable you to feel good about your choice, and then search for what it are not always the victim in life。 most of the time you are the victor looking at the situation from the wrong view! The view is yours to choose. 8 The Folly of Anxiety Half the people on our streets look as though life was a sorry business. It is hard to find a happy looking man or woman. Worry is the cause of their woebegone appearance. Worry makes the wrinkles。 worry cuts the deep, downglancing lines on the face。 worry is the worst disease of our modern times. Care is contagious。 it is hard work being cheerful at a funeral, and it is a good deal harder to keep the frown from your face when you are in the throng of the worry worn ones. Yet, we have no right to be dispensers of gloom。 no matter how heavy our loads may seem to be we have no right to throw their burden on others nor even to cast the shadow of them on other hearts. Anxiety is instability. Fret steals away force. He who dreads tomorrow trembles today. Worry is weakness. The successful men may be always wideawake, but they never worry. Fret and fear are like fine sand, thrown into life39。 s delicate mechanism。 they cause more than half the friction。 they steal half the power. Cheer is strength. Nothing is so well done as that which is done heartily, and nothing is so heartily done as that which is done happily. Be happy, is an injunction not impossible of fulfillment. Pleasure may be an accident。 but happiness es in definite ways. It is the casting out of our foolish fears that we may have room for a few of our mon joys. It is the telling our worries to wait until we get through appreciating our blessings. Take a deep breath, raise your chest, lift your eyes from the ground, look up and think how many things you have for which to be grateful, and you will find a smile growing where one may long have been unknown. Take the right kind of thought—for to take no thought would be sin—but take the calm, unanxious thought of your business, your duties, your difficulties, your disappointments and all the things that once have caused you fear, and you will find yourself laughing at most of them. 9 My Perfect House My house is perfect. By great good fortune I have found a housekeeper no less to my mind, a lowvoiced, lightfooted woman of discreet age, strong and deft enough to render me all the service I require, and not afraid of loneliness. She rises very early. By my breakfasttime there remains little to be done under the roof save dressing of meals. Very rarely do I hear even a clink of crockery。 never the closing of a door or window. Oh, blessed silence! My house is perfect. Just large enough to allow the grace of order in domestic circumstance。 just that superfluity of inner space, to lack which is to be less than at one39。 s ease. The fabric is sound。 the work in wood and plaster tells of a more leisurely and a more honest age than ours. The stairs do not creak under my step。 I am attacked by no unkindly draught。 I can open or close a window without muscleache. As to such trifles as the color and device of wallpaper, I confess my indifference。 be the walls only plain, and I am satisfied. The first thing in one39。 s home is fort。 let beauty of detail be added if one has the means, the patience, the eye. To me, this little bookroom is beautiful, and chiefly because it is home. Through the greater part of life I was homeless. Many places have I lived, some which my soul disliked, and some which pleased me well。 but never till now with that sense of security which makes a home. At any moment I might have been driven forth by evil accident, by disturbing necessity. For all that time did I say within myself: Some day, perchance, I shall have a home。 yet the perchance had more and more of emphasis as life went on, and at the moment when fate was secretly smiling on me, I had all but abandoned hope .I have my home at last. This house is mine on a lease of a score of years. So long I certainly shall not live。 but, if I did, even so long should I have the money to pay my rent and buy my food. I am no cosmopolite. Were I to think that I should die away from England, the thought would be dreadful to me. And in England, this is the place of my choice。 this is my home. 10 Kindness of Strangers Our son Owen was born just as Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf days later, as Katrina neared landfall, Owen began suffering seizures。 he39。 d had a didn39。 t follow the catastrophe on the Gulf Coast as closely as I might have,but those weeks taught me some things about catastrophe and about the kindness of catastrophes are in the Gulf Coast sought survival。 some sought to help prayed。 some prayed upon the hospital, we watched our son Owen the tubes dripping and the monitors beeping, he still slept his baby wife asked。