There is no single definition of human nature,for the simple reason that we are all individuals and no two humans are,or can ever be,exactly alike.

Many an institution has been set up to try and make sense of the inscrutable nature of we human beings and,although an inroad has been made,it is only instrumental in showing how little we really understand.

We tend to institutionalise those of us that do not conform to the common standards and we sometimes class them as insane,but is insanity really the disease?

It is highly instructive to read the huge amount of wisdom that so many learned men sought to inscribe throughout the centuries in order to fulfil their insatiable,if sometimes,insalubrious,quest to define human nature.

Occasionally,we find a truly insightful inscr

가수: 유승준
곡명: 가위
앨범: West Side

歌手:刘承俊

歌曲:剪刀
专辑:Best & J Duet Collection (disc 3)

歌词：
CHECK IT OUT NOW, COME ON NOW LET ME BUST IT OUT,

OH NO TOO SLOW FLOW YO KICK IT LITTLEFASTER COME ON

JUST SLITTLE BIT MOTE FASTR COME ON COME ON

I SAID FASTER UH CAUSE I SIKE THAT AND UM UH

COME ON YO FASTER YO GO FASTER

넌 내게 말했지 세상을 떠나버린 후
你曾经对我说如果你离开这世界

꿈에서라도 다시는 만나서는 안 된다고
就算在梦里也不要与你相见

하지만 매일 밤 꿈속에 너를 만났어
但是每个夜晚都在梦里见到你

孤独源于爱，无爱的人不会孤独。

在我们心灵深处，爱和孤独其实是同一种情感，它们如影随形，不可分离。孤独和爱是互为根源的，孤独无非是爱寻求接受而不可得，而爱也无非是对他人之孤独的发现和抚慰。

分寸感是成熟的爱的标志。

 

 

                         -文/周国平 节选

1. 品味生活瞬间

停下来闻闻玫瑰的花香或者看着孩子玩耍。像那些花时间品味匆匆过去日常生活的人学习，或者想想过去快乐的日子，就像心理学家Sonja Lyubomirsky所说：“增加快乐，减少烦恼”。

1. Savor Everyday Moments

Pause now and then to smell a rose or watch children at play. Study participants who took time to “savor” ordinary events that they normally hurried through, or to think back on pleasant moments from their day, “showed significant increases in happiness and reductions in depression,” says psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky.

2. 少攀比

向邻居看齐是美国文化的一部分，然而与他人攀比会损害我们的快乐和自尊。根据Lyubomirsky所说，代替与他人攀比，关注我们个人的成就，会产生更大的满足感。

2. Avoid Comparisons

While keeping up with the Joneses is part of American culture, comparing ourselves with others can be damaging

   Whether sixty or sixteen, 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 the infinite, so long are you young.

An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

Youth means a temperamental predomin

　　十七世纪中叶的中国文人张潮在他所著的《幽梦影》中， 有许多关于读书的妙论， 随手批出两个来： “春雨宜读书。” “读经宜冬，其神专也； 读史宜夏， 其时久也； 读诸子宜秋，其致别也；读诸集宜春，其机畅也。”这说的全是读书所宜的时节，是时间上的。

 

　　还有一种读书所宜的氛围，来得并不比这时节逊色，这是地理空间上的。入什么庙念什么经，进什么山唱什么歌。读书随境而迁，因地而异， 终也不失那“神专、 时久、致别、机畅”的三昧。

　　

　　在北京的时候， 《日下旧闻考》、《帝京景物略》、《燕京岁时记》、《长安客话》等是手边常翻之书。客居纽约以后，关于纽约的历史文化论著成了我的览读中心。及至搬到毗邻哈德逊河的乡间上学的时候，便专寻当地的作者或描写当地风物历史的著作。灯明茶热之时，读着搜寻得来的文字，初来乍到的异地感觉也渐渐为一种文化的温暖乡情悄悄融化了。　　

　　

　　约翰·柏洛兹（John Burroughs）的二十余卷博物学著作， 《猎鹿人》 （The Deerslayer）、《最后的莫希干人》 （The Last of the Mohicans）的作者库柏（James F. Cooper）的小说，库柏之女苏珊·库柏（Sus

原来草蜢在我生日那天开了演唱会，我说怎么这么高兴呢。

     Smiles send us light in the darkness. Smiles bring us warm sunlight on a cold winter day. Smiles can break the ice. Smiles are like rainbows. Rainy days end and the sky is beautiful again.

     Smiles show love and friendship. Teachers' smiles encourage us. Mothers' smiles warm us. Friends' smiles make us feel closer.

     We welcome smiles from others. And we should give others our smiles too. No one is richer than a man who often smiles at others. If a man doesn't smile at you, just smile at him. Smiles help you forget your sadness. Lif

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.


If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.


If you are successful, you will win some false friends
And some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.


If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
Someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.


If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.


The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Be good anyway.


Give the world the best you have,
And it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway