Robert H. Schuller
Failure doesn?t mean you are a failure,
It does mean you haven?t succeeded yet.
Failure doesn?t mean you have accomplished nothing,
It does mean you have learned something.
Failure doesn?t mean you have been a fool,
It does mean you had a lot of faith.
Failure doesn?t mean you?ve been disgraced,
It does mean you were willing to try.
Failure doesn?t mean you don?t have it,
It does mean you have to do something in a different way.
Failure doesn?t mean you are inferior,
It does mean you are not perfect.
Failure doesn?t mean you?ve wasted your life,
It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.
Failure doesn?t mean you should give up,
It does mean you must try harder.
Failure doesn?t mean you?ll never make it,
It does mean it will take a little longer.
Failure doesn?t mean God has abandoned you,
It does mean God has a better idea.
十大策略?失敗的意義
羅伯特·H·舒勒
失敗並不代表妳是個失敗者，
它只表明妳尚未成功。
失敗並不代表妳壹無所獲，
它只表明妳吸取了壹次教訓。
失敗並不代表妳很愚蠢，
它只表明妳信心百倍。
失敗並不代表妳無臉見人，
它只表明妳百折不回。
失敗並不代表妳工夫白費，
它只表明妳的做事方法尚待改進。
失敗並不代表妳低人壹等。
它只表明妳並非完人。
失敗並不代表妳浪費生命，
它只表明妳有理由重新開始。
失敗並不代表妳應該放棄，
它只表明妳要加倍努力。
失敗並不代表成功永不屬於妳，
它只表明妳要付出更多的時間。
失敗並不代表上帝已經拋棄妳，
它只表明上帝還有更好的主意。
二、FOLLOW YOUR OWN COURSE
Neil Simon
Don?t listen to those who say,
“It?s not done that way.”
Maybe it?s not, but maybe you will.
Don?t listen to those who say,
“You?re taking too big a chance.”
Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor,
and it would surely be rubbed out by today.
Most importantly, don?t listen
When the little voice of fear inside of you
rear its ugly head and says,
“They?re all smarter than you out there.
They?re more talented,
They?re taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections...”
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you,
Not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others,
But with the strength of conviction
That you can move others by your own efforts,
And do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live,
The chances are you?ll be a person worthy of your own respect.
走自己的路
尼爾·西蒙
別聽那些人的話，
“這事不能那麽做。”
也許是不能那麽做，可是也許妳就會那麽做。
別聽那些人的話，
“妳這個險冒得太大了。”
米開朗琪羅可能在西斯廷教堂的地板上作過畫，
到今天肯定已經被抹掉了。
最重要的是，
當妳心中恐懼的聲音，
擡起它醜陋的頭說，
“那邊那些人都比妳聰明，
他們更有才華，
他們更高大、皮膚更白、更漂亮、更幸運，
並且認識各種各樣的人…”
妳可千萬別理會。
我堅信只要選擇壹條妳感興趣的路，
不排除愛情、敏銳以及與別人的合作，
而是堅定地認為，
通過妳自身的努力能夠感動他人，
不把成功或者失敗作為妳生活的標準，
那麽妳就可能成為值得自己敬佩的人。
三、FAITH
Napolean Hill
Faith is the “eternal elixir”
Which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!
Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches!
Faith is the basis of all “miracles”,
And all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science!
Faith is the only known antidote for failure!
Faith is the element, the “chemical” which,
When mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
Faith is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.
Faith is the only agency through which
the cosmic force of Infinite
Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.
信念
拿破侖·希爾
信念是“永恒的萬應靈藥”，
它賦予突發奇想以生命、力量和行動！
信念是所有財富積累的起點！
信念是壹切“奇跡”
以及所有科學法則無法分析的奧秘的根基！
信念是惟壹已知失敗之解藥！
信念是重要元素、“化學物質”，
壹旦與祈禱結合便會使妳與上帝直接溝通。
人類的智慧固然有限，
普通的靈感閃現壹經信念指點，
便會轉換成精神震撼。
信念是惟壹的中介，通過它
上帝的宇宙力會成為人類開發和利用的資源。
四、ON CHANGES
Irene Dunlap
Change is the only absolute
in the world,
the only thing
that you can depend on.
Nothing stays the same.
Tomorrow will come,
bringing with it
new beginnings and sometimes
unexpected endings.
You can hold on to the past
and get left in the dust;
or, you can choose to
jump on the ride of life
and live a new adventure
with perseverance
and an open mind.
論變化
艾琳·鄧萊普
變化是世界上
惟壹絕對的東西，
是惟壹
妳能相信的事情。
沒有什麽能壹成不變，
明天將來臨，
它會帶來
新的開始，並且有時
還會帶來意想不到的結局。
妳可以抓住過去，
蒙受遺棄；
或者，妳可以選擇
躍上生命之車
進行壹次新的冒險，
憑借堅持不懈
和廣闊的胸懷。
五、RESULTS AND ROSES
Edgar Albert Guest
The man who wants a garden fair,
Or small or very big,
With flowers growing here and there,
Must bend his back and dig.
The things are mighty few on earth,
That wishes can attain,
Whatever we want of any worth,
We?ve got to work to gain.
It matters not what goal you seek,
Its secret here reposes:
You?ve got to dig from week to week,
To get results or roses.
碩果和玫瑰
埃德加·阿爾貝特·格斯特
要想有個美麗花園，
面積大小姑且不管，
只要園中長滿鮮花，
就必須把汗水揮灑。
有願望就能實現，
這樣的事還真是少見，只要想要的東西有價值，
就得靠努力去創造。
目標是什麽並不重要，
秘訣終歸只有壹條：
周復壹周不怕勞累，
才能收獲碩果或者玫瑰。
六、THE VALUE OF TIME
Katharine Sun
To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realaize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
時間的價值
凱瑟琳·桑陳采霞譯
要想知道壹年的價值，
那就去問期末考試不及格的學生。
要想知道壹個月的價值，
那就去問生了早產兒的母親。
要想知道壹周的價值，
那就去問周報的編輯。
要想知道壹小時的價值，
那就去問等待見面的戀人。
要想知道壹分鐘的價值，
那就去問誤了火車、汽車或者飛機的人。
要想知道壹秒鐘的價值，
那就去問大難不死的人。
要想知道壹毫秒的價值，
那就去問奧運會獲得銀牌的人。
時間不等人，
妳擁有的每壹刻都要珍惜。
七、TODAY IS A NEW DAY
Donna Levine
Your tomorrows are as bright
as you want to make them.
There is no reason to carry
the darkness of the past
with you into today.
Today is a wonderful new experience，
full of every possibility to make
your life exactly what you want it to be.
Today is the beginning of new happiness,
new directions and new relationships.
Today is the day to remind yourself
that you posses the power
and strength you need
to bring contentment, love and joy into your life.
Today is the day to understand yourself
and to give yourself the love
and the patience that you need.
Today is the day to move forward
towards your bright tomorrow.
今天是新的壹天
唐那·萊文陳采霞譯
妳的明天充滿陽光，
如妳心中所想。
妳沒有理由，
把昨天的黑暗，
帶到今天。
今天是美妙的全新體驗，
有那麽多種可能，
使妳的生活如妳所願。
今天開始有新的幸福，
新的方向和新的夥伴。
今天妳要提醒自己，
妳有足夠的能力和力量，
把滿意、愛情和歡樂帶進妳的生活。
今天妳要了解自己，
給自己足夠的愛心和耐心。
今天妳會勇往直前，
奔向那燦爛的明天。
八、DREAMS
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken?winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
夢想
蘭斯頓·休斯陳采霞譯
緊緊抓住夢想，
因為壹旦夢想消亡，
生活就象折斷翅膀的小鳥，
無法自由翺翔。
緊緊抓住夢想，
因為壹旦夢想離開，
生活就會變成貧瘠荒蕪的土地，
只有冰雪覆蓋。
九、THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
沒有走過的路
羅伯特·弗羅斯特陳采霞譯
金色的樹林路分兩條，
遺憾不能兩條都到。
孤獨的我長久亻寧立，
極日眺望其中壹條，
直到它在灌叢中淹沒掉。
然後我公平地選擇了另外壹條，
或許理由更加充分，
因為它草深需要有人上去走走。
說到有多少人從上面走過
兩條路磨損得還真是差不多。
而且那天早晨兩條路都靜靜地躺著，
覆蓋在上面的樹葉都沒有被踩黑，
噢，我把第壹條路留給了下壹次！
但我知道前方的路變幻莫測，
我懷疑我是否應該回來……
多年以後在某個地方，
我將嘆息著講述這件事：
樹林裏路分兩條，而我——
選擇了行人較少的那條，
就這樣壹切便發生了改變。