2010年2月13日 星期六

年年如意,幸福快乐


伊浚:
祝你年年如意,幸福快乐。什么是幸福?中国人的幸福是心与心的交流,那是时时感念别人对我们的关怀和爱護,以及时时自己去关爱周围的人。这幸福哪里是吃到一歺团园饭,欲望暂时的满足能夠比拟的?我们在这样的过程当中,愈来愈感受到幸福与我们的心境有关,与我们的思想观念有关。我们每天有没有去感受过,周围的人对我们点点滴滴的付出?我们每天在每个细节当中,有没有感受到幸福?在我们每天成长,每天读书工作,人生一步一步走向成年的过程当中,有没有累积我们自己的德行?我们回報了多少关心我们的人?。每天都有多少人在关怀我们,我们要懂得用心去感受。祝万事如意。
Wishing you and your love ones have a very happy, blessed Chinese New Year.

2010年2月8日 星期一

The Man And The Opportunity


Dear Yi Jun,

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them.

Every lesson in school, college or university is an opportunity. Every colloquium or examination is a chance in life. Every business transaction is an opportunity – an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends. Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.

Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless. Existence is the privilege of effort and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

Don’t wait for your opportunity. Make it, make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred “impossible” situations. Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace, have made their chances of success. Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort. Gold opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.