婆婆的爱

亲爱的姨姨：

每逢佳节倍思亲，在这次的农历新年里，很高兴能向婆婆拜年。听婆婆讲述陈年往事，眼中不禁泛着泪光。仔细品尝潜伏心中的情绪，慢慢呵护自己的心灵。最终我明白了，原来我好思念眼前婆婆纯纯的爱，婆婆虽然没有受过什么教育，但是她讲的往事都隐藏着人生的道理。在婆婆的爱之中看不到批判，因为婆婆的爱就是纯然的爱，是如实的爱 。同时婆婆也懂得疼惜这样的缘分的心情。临别时，我不忘给婆婆一个挚诚的拥抱道别。我知道我很珍惜每一次与婆婆的相逢，每一面的相会，都传达着温情与关爱，都传达着接纳和包容。让每一面美好，让每一个当下不留白。祝福大家身体健康，生活愉快。

If I Rest, I Rust

The significant inscription found on an old key “If I rest, I rust” would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest taint of idleness. Even the industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as are minder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and ultimately cannot do the work required of them.

Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gates that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, medicine, art, literature, agriculture very department of human endeavor.

Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasure of achievement. If Hugh Miler, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness. Had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep on the hillside, instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.

Labor vanquished all not inconstant, spasmodic or ill directed labor, but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.

用心生活,照顾婆婆

亲爱的姨姨：

从妈妈口中悉知您对婆婆照顾的无微不至。婆婆也曾经提起过她感到自豪拥有这么一位孝顺女儿。其实您已经学会了把人做好，简单来说，把人做好就是把自己的分内事做好，应该什么角色就扮演什么角色。如果大家都能做好本分的工作，这个世界会变成一个祥和的乐园。
若我们平日生活用心，没有白过日子，对人对事问心无愧，自然就能放下自己了。所以，怎样把人做好是很重要的，千万不要等到最后一口气的时候才来思考这些问题啊，因为做人也是需要以经验中学习从错误中成长的。祝：安康。

The Value Of Time

“Time is money, youth is capital”, says the proverb. This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those who think nothing of wasting time remember this.

Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merry making; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

All time is precious, but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. Just as money lain out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood any youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantage.

家有一老，如有一宝

亲爱的母亲：

新年佳节期间，很高兴有缘向婆婆及阿姨们拜年。婆婆身体虽然老了，但是讲起往日孙子们的故事时都充满朝气和活力。当晚她老人家向我谈起阿亮的故事，阿辉的故事，雪梨的故事，锦连的故事及……。虽然个个故事千篇一律，重复了又在重复；我还是很有耐心的听完每一个故事的情节。个个故事让我感受到婆婆对生命充满了无限的热诚，希望与喜悦。论年龄；婆婆已近古稀之年，但是当我听她说起威风神勇的往事，仿佛回到了当年的时候。婆婆虽近在眉睫，但感觉上切离我们越来越远了。我们要好好的去珍惜。
家有一老，如有一宝；婆婆是值得我们去关心，体贴和问候。毕竟终有一天，我们每个人都会老去，当手执拐杖，白发苍苍的时候，回顾自己的一生，若能有婆婆般的贤慧与尊严，也才不狂此生。最后让我们大家一起来为婆婆祝福。希望她老人家永远健康，幸福与快乐

Success

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

Success in not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all of the facets of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker and all of the others.

Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.

Success is discovering your best talents, skills and abilities and applying them where they will make the most effective contribution to your fellow men.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Success is 99% mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience and enthusiasm.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is a perpetual growth.

Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long rang goal.

Success is accepting the challenge of the difficult. In the inspiring words of Phillips Brooks, “Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.”

踏实做人

亲爱的母亲：

说到忙，说到穷，比起爸爸当年的生活和经济情况，我们现在算得了什么，爸爸虽然穷一辈子，但是积极，有进取心，所以不会轻易被恶劣的环境打败，如果不是爸爸的严格要求，就没有今天的我们。要脱离穷忙，或者要学习如何在穷和忙中找到平衡，快乐，看来除了精打细算，最基本的动作就是不要急功近利，而是要踏实做人。人生最踏实的事，是今日此时多少力量，就尽快付出，去作利益人群造福社会的工作。
祝：有心就有福