If you are a person who is keen on Chinese, you may know Li Yang who created “Crazy English”. He first teaches Chinese people to learn English, and now also teaches foreigners to learn Chinese. Here are ten wisdom he offers to tell you what you should have for sucess.
Sucess Wisdom 1. Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Sucess Wisdom 2. You are at a wonderful stage of life. You have many wonderful stages of life yet to come, but they are not without their costs and perils.
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Happy things may not cure your sadness for other things, but the understanding could. ‘You Lost Me There’ by Rosecrans Baldwin is such a book of grief and memory. When you no longer own what you ever own, how do you deal with that? The book review by Michael Schaub is much sensuous:
Memory is the one mercy that grief offers us. Anyone who has lost a loved one can describe the sudden rush of memories that instantly start playing back in rapid-fire succession, just seconds after the realization that there is a person — was a person — who is never coming back. It’s both succor and torture, and it seems to last forever.
Memory is unreliable, of course, and can be treacherous, but it’s still what saves us when we’re mourning. That’s why we read and reread letters and e-mails, even the ones that once seemed insignificant, when we realize that’s all there will ever be.
“I mean, these are lifelines,” says a character in Rosecrans Baldwin’s stunning debut novel of grief and memory, You Lost Me There. “Imagine if words meant that much to you or me, to be a saving grace. I mean, because what’s left afterward, except what we’ve written down?”
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What is love? You must have no idea before you meet it, but after you met it you will say “Yes, it is like that” when you read love sentences below.
“You know you’re in love when you’re willing to share your cash-machine number.”
Elayne Boosler
“And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make.”
The Beatles
“Love conquers all things – except poverty and toothache.”
Mae West
“The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.”
Anon
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One saying is that ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed.’ However, we don’t always have such a friend, even in the whole life. We often has either a foul-weather friend or a fair-weather friend, both of which are not good friends.
What is a foul-weather friend? A foul-weather friend only seeks you out if they have a problem and need your help. When they need you, they make you think that you are the only friend that he/she can rely on or even has. However, otherwise they act as if they don’t even know you, or be far away when you are in trouble.
What is a fair-weather friend? A fair-weather friend is a little like people around rich kids. They would like to be friend with you when you are successufl or have good mood. Once you decline, you’ll find nobody is around you.
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I have read ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’, and I must tell you who are ready to reat it: Don’t read it alone, but with your boyfriend(or husband) or girlfriend(or wife), or you’ll suffer a lot between your relationship.
‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ tells you the difference between men and women. For women, they should understand men in men’s way but not theirs, while for men they should understand women in women’s way. That could help you improve your relationship and solve the problem that you ever didn’t know how happened. However,if only you read the book, you may know more about your companion and do a right thing when a quarrel is going to happen. But if it is always you who pay more tolerance and understanding to the other people, then some day you’ll broke up as there is no balance that you pay more but get less or nothing.
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If you are going to date with a boy for the first time, first you should dress up yourself well just like what the notices tell you to do. And after you see him, if you would like to see him again, you should be careful of your talking and acting. I don’t mean you are going to pretend to be someone else. Just be yourself, but grasp some techniques first. Come on, be close to your favourite boy, you should know:
1. Don’t dress like a slut — or a school marm.
Be stylish and sexy, but not slutty. So, no excessive cleavage, no heels so high you can barely walk in them, no barely-there-skirts. You want to earn the dude’s respect, and make him think you are a person worthy of pursuit — not just a sex object.
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I came across it in a book, and had thought it as a motivational poem. But after search in Google, I finally find it’s the lyrics of one song called “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, sung by Barbra Streisand, who is said the last real aritist in the last century.
You’ll Never Walk Alone Lyrics:
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high,
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm is a golden sky,
And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
You never ever walk alone.
Barbra Streisand, You'll Never Walk Alone Lyrics
A young fellow loves a girl, but the girl’s father doesn’t like him and disagree on their affair. The young fellow wants to write love letter to the girl but he know the girl’s father will take a look first. So he write a letter like this, do you know how to read it?
My love for you I once expressed
no longer lasts, instead, my distaste for you
is growing with each passing day. Next time I see you,
I even won’t like that look yours.
I’ll do nothing but
look away from you. You can never expect I’ll
marry you. The last chat we had
was so dull and dry that you shouldn’t think it
made me eager to see you again.
If we get married, I firmly believe I’ll
live a hard life, I can never
live happily with you, I’ll devote myself
but not
to you. No one else is more
harsh and selfish and least
solicitous and considerate than you.
I sincerely want to let you know
what I said is true. Please do me a favor by
ending our relations and refrain from
writing me a reply. Your letter is always full of
things which displease me. You have no
sincere care for me. So long! Please belive
I don’t love you any longer. Don’t think
I still have a love of you!
love letter, young fellow girl
Tagore, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1931, is the greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, and an early advocate of Independence for India. In 1933, he was awarded the knighthood, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Mas-sacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators. Tagore’s influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern India was enormous, but his reputation in the west as a mystic has perhaps mislead his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critice of colonialism.
Tagore’s reputation as a writer was established in the United States and in England after the publication of Gitan-jali, about divine and human love. The poems do not seem to have been produced by storm or by ignition, but seem to show the normal habit of his mind. He is at one with nature, and finds no contradictions.
Stray Birds by Tagore:
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The short poem “If by life you were deceived” by Alexandr Pushkin has directly and actually expressed the attitude we need to have when facing troubles. We should be full of hope that everything is going to be better no matter how you are now. Frankly, One more word is redundant.
By Alexandr Pushkin
If by life you were deceived,
Don’t be dismal; don’t be wild!
In the day of grief, be mild
Merry days will come, believe.
Heart is living in tomorrow;
Present is dejected here;
In a moment, passes sorrow;
That which passes will be dear.
Alexandr Pushkin, attitude, facing troubles, If by life you were deceived
