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One
of a few good things in life is language. We don't create a whole new
language. We inherit it from your ancestors. No matter how rich or poor
we are, we can still possess the ability to speak.
As one said, happiness comes from loving many things. So, we'd better
learn to love our languages. However, do you think that it is hard to
love something that is not beautiful? For example, in our everyday life,
our conversations consist of ugly things: broken English, ungrammatical
sentences. So, there is no reason to love languages. Talking is tiring.
Understanding others is hard. Listening to others is laborious. When it
comes to a conversation, we feel uninspired by the routine questions and
responses. That's why we need to have other hobbies such as photography,
soccer games, computer games, fishing, music, and so on.
Once in your life time, have you ever had an exotic experience with
spoken words? You may not believe this, but spoken words can do wonders
for us in many ways. Words can hurt. Words can bring danger. Words can
make us sad. Words can heal. Words can bring joy. Words can uplift our
spirit. Words can bring ourselves and abstract ideas close together.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to see beauty in the English language
because school materials are dull. They are written to make it harder
for students to read.
So, our ability to use beautiful, powerful words to make us happy is a
good thing. The key is to notice how we feel whenever we hear or say
words, phrases, and sentences -especially proverbs and sayings.
Beautiful words, when said and spoken, can create a powerful, inspiring
emotion within us. These words can help us go through difficulty in
life.
Note:
Each underlined word below means there is a definition for it on the
right section of this page.
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"Having a passion for life and work is a good thing." --
Lex Luther
"That which
does not destroy you really does make you stronger." --
Anonymous
"The journey
of a thousand miles begins now!" --Anonymous
"Don't deny
the existence of a mountain in your life, deny its authority to stay,
and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life." -- Jesse
Duplantis
"The first
essential, of course, is to know what you want." -- Robert Collier
"If you
don't run your life, somebody else will." -- John Atkinson
"Man is is
not a creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of
men." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"We lift
ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you
want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and
of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always,
everywhere--your ideal of what you long to attain--the ideal of health,
efficiency, success."
-- Orison Swett Marden
"If you want
different result, do things differently." -- Anonymous
"Normal does
not necessarily mean healthy." -- Anonymous
"The best
revenge is happiness." -- Anonymous
"Motion
controls emotion. Doing exercise makes you feel better." -- Anonymous
"Forget
about understanding, 'Let's be stupid together.'" -- Anonymous
"Simplicity,
Simplicity, Simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and
not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen,
and keep your accounts on your thumbnail...Simplify, simplify." -- Henry
David Thoreau
Thank to Thiensu
for sharing his favorite quotes from Vietnam.
" Smile is the most effective
medicine." --Anonymous
" Listen to me, listen to you, and listen to what is from your mind to
your heart." -- Anonymous
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Passion
=
(n.) a very strong feeling
Destroy
=
(v.) to smash or ruin something
Anonymous
=
(a.) done by someone not named
Journey
=
(n.) a long trip
Mile
=
(n.) length, 1 Mile = 5,280 ft
Deny
=
(v.) to say that something is not true
Existence
=
(n.) real being
Authority
=
(n.) 1: the one in charge, 2: an expert
Refuse
=
(v.) to reject something or not want to take or to do something
Allow
=
(v.) to let somebody do something, to give permission
Plan
=
(n.) an idea for doing something
Essential
=
(a.) important, vital, necessary
Creature
=
(n.) any animal
Circumstance
=
(n.) situation
Lift
=
(v.) to pick up, to go up or away
Climb
=
(v.) to walk or crawl up
Vision
=
(n.) seeing power
Enlarge
=
(v.) to make bigger
Ideal
=
(a.) just what you want, perfect
Attain
=
(v.) to get
Health
=
(n.) a freedom from sickness,
Healthy
=
(a.) having health
Efficiency
=
(n.) getting the job done without wasted effort
Success
=
(n.) getting what you want
Normal
=
(n.) usual or typical
Affairs
=
(n.) business
Account
=
(n.) 1: a place in a bank to keep your money, 2: story or description
"Having a passion for life and work is a good thing." --
Lex Luther