人生哲理英語文章

　　因為人生充滿哲理，才讓人生更加迷人，具有更多要追尋的奧祕。下面就是小編給大家整理的，希望大家喜歡。

　　一：A Meditation Upon a Broomstick 掃帚把上的沉思

　　This single stick now is ingloriously lying in that neglected corner.

　　Once it was in a forest, full of sap, leaves and boughs; now in vain someone has tried to compete with nature by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its trunk. It is now the reverse of what it was: a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air. It is now handled by a maid, and makes other things clean but itself dirty. In the end, worn out in the service of the maids, it is either thrown out, or used as firewood.

　　When I saw it I sighed, and said within myself: surely man is a broomstick. Nature sends him into the world strong and lusty. He wears his own hair, just like a tree with flourishing leaves and branches. Later, the axe of intemperance cuts off his green branches and leaves him a withered trunk, and he puts on a wig and covers himself with powder. This broomstick is proud of all the branches added to him; yet they are covered with dust. Though the dust is from the finest lady's chamber, we ridicule it, and despise its vanity. We are partial judges, that is, partial to our own excellencies and other men's faults.

　　一根掃帚把灰溜溜地躺在無人注意的角落。

　　曾經在樹林裡，它樹液充沛，枝葉繁茂;如今變了樣，卻還有人自作聰明，想靠手藝同大自然競爭，拿來一束枯枝捆在它的身上，結果卻是枉費心機。不過是顛倒了它原來的位置，使它枝幹朝地，根梢向天。它在女僕的手裡使用，從此受命運擺佈，把別人打掃乾淨，自己卻落得個又髒又臭。而在女僕們的手裡折騰過多次之後，或者被扔出門外，或者作為引火的柴禾被燒掉了。

　　我看到了這一切，不盡興嘆，自言自語一番：人不也是一根掃帚麼?大自然送他入世之初，他是強壯有力的，精力充沛，滿頭的好發，就像一株枝葉齊全的植物。但不久貪婪就像一把斧子砍掉了他的青枝綠葉，只留給他一根枯株。他趕緊戴上頭套，擦上香粉。這把掃帚因為把一些別的樹條收集到身上而得意洋洋，其實這些枝條上盡是灰土。即使是最高貴的夫人房裡的塵土，我們也一定會嘲笑它的虛榮吧!我們就是這樣偏心的審判官，偏於自己的優點，別人的毛病。

　　二：Be Whole in Life

　　Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly1. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

　　The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn2, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.

　　There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

　　Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn3 us for failing. Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words you've gotten right, you're disqualified if you make one mistake. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance4. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire5 to. That, I believe, is what God asks of us -- not "Be perfect", not "Don't even make a mistake", but "Be whole".

　　If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.

　　三：Four Perfect Dreams of Life

　　Healthy and Fit

　　The first goal common to all of us is health and energy. We all want to be healthy and fit, to have high levels of energy and to live free of pain and illness. Today, with the incredible advances in medical science, the quality of our health and fitness, and our lifespan, is largelydetermined by design, not by chance. People with excellent health habits are far healthier, have more energy, and live longer and better than people who have poor health habits.

　　Excellent Relationships

　　The second goal that we all have in common is to enjoy excellent relationships-intimate, personal or social-with the people we like and respect, and who like, love and respect us in turn. Fully85% of your happiness will be determined by the quality of your relationships at each stage, and in each area, of your life. How well you get along with people, and how much they like, love and respect you, has more impact on the quality of your life than perhaps any other factor.

　　Do What You Love

　　The third common goal is to do work that we enjoy, to do it well, and to be well paid for it. You want to be able to get and keep the job you want, to get paid more and promoted faster.You want to earn the very most that is possible for you at each stage of your career, whatever you do.

　　Achieve Financial Independence

　　The fourth goal we all have in common is to achieve financial independence. You want to reach the point in life where you have enough money so that you never have to worry about money again. You want to be completely free of financial worries.You want to be able to order dinner in a restaurant without using the price listings to determine what you want to eat.