The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to4 shoddy5 workmanship6 and used inferior7 materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

　　When the carpenter finished his work and the employer came to inspect the house and handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."

　　What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too8 well.

　　So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted9 way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up10 less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized, we would have done it differently.

　　Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer11 a nail, place a board, or erect12 a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously13 and with dignity. The plaque14 on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Who could say it more clearly? Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.

　
一位上了年纪的木匠作好了退休的准备。他告诉老板他准备离开建筑行业，与老伴和儿孙们一起共享天伦之乐，过一种更悠闲自得的生活。虽然他因此而少了份薪水，但他想退休了。至于日子嘛，还可以凑合着过。

　　眼看这位优秀的木工就要离去，老板很遗憾。他问木工可否帮忙再建一所房子。木工答应了，可明眼人一眼就看得出来，此时他做事心不在焉，做出的活儿技艺粗糙，用的料也没那么讲究了。他就这样为自己的建筑生涯划上了句号，真是令人遗憾。

　　房子建好后，老板过来看新房并交给木工一把前门钥匙，说：“这房子归你了，我送给你的礼物。”

　　多么让人吃惊，多么让人羞愧啊！假如他知道在为自己造房，他会做得大不一样。现在他不得不住在自己建造的那所粗制滥造的房子里了。

　　我们又何尝不是如此呢？我们心浮气躁地打造生活，不是主动工作而是被动应付，能省事就省事。关键的时候也没尽心尽力。蓦然回首，才瞠目结舌地发现自己正住在自己建造的那所房子中，自食苦果。早知如此，何必当初。

　　就当你自己就是那位木工吧。就当你为自己建房，每天要钉钉、铺板、砌墙。那么，你就该用心地去建。你的生活只能这样建造。哪怕你只在房子里多生活一天，这一天也应该活得优雅、有尊严。墙上的铭匾写道：“生活正如一项为自己打造的工程。”还有什么比这更清楚的呢？明日的生活之果，孕育于你今天的态度和抉择之树上。

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind,it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a matter of the will, a it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

　　Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidy, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This of ten exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows merely by the number of years, we grow old by deserting our ideas. '

    　Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the beart and turns the spirit back to dust .

　　Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders ,the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living . In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope , cheer, courage and power from men and from infinite, so long as you are young.

　　When the aerials are down, and your spirit is couered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you've growm old ,even at 20,but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there's hope you may die young at 80.

　　青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深觉的意志、恢宏的想象、炽热的感情；青春有如一股清泉在我们的生命中涌动。

　　青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。此等锐气,不仅常显弱冠后生之志,更存于花甲老人之心。年岁有加，并非垂老；理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

　　岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓唐必抵灵魂。忧烦、惶恐、自信殆尽，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

　　无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

　　一旦天线倒塌，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要竖起天线，捕捉乐观的信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻

(這是09年的太陽)

有人把幸福定义为："Happiness is  whether one can love the person one lover,do the thing one likes and think what should be thought."

曾经我认为这三样我都没有，而现在改变了多少，好转了多少，还是亦不如从前，鬼他妈知道，不过无论你是唉声叹气还是怨天尤人时间都不会为你停下一秒，所以我一直在跑，拼命的跑，怕一停下就闪到了下个世纪，但我们都明白，the direction is more important than the speed,  MY DIRECTION?想到某位朋友的妈妈说“女人在30岁前很难看清自己，很难真正明白自己适合做什么不适合做及需要什么不需要什么”，虽然我下午还在安慰Miss Zhao：每个人都是在摸索着前进，无论是生活还是事业还是感情。但我的courage貌似并没有我的安慰话“走”的坚定，而对于明天我唯一能够确定的就是我不能确定。

这是09年，我人生的第2轮，在这个混乱又纯净的地球上继续我的行走方针：挖掘“财富”，忽视“垃圾”，远离“毒药”。

Good luck to me, to all my friends, to everyone in the world.

     （这是08年的我）