名人好读书：用小书护养心灵

 　　看不下厚厚的外文名著，我们可以选择更贴近我们生活的小书来护养心灵。名人读好书带您走进《A Short Guide To a Happy Life》的世界。

《A Short Guide To a Happy Life》

Author：Anna Quindlen

Introduce：

很小很薄的一本书，华丽词藻，多情呻吟，猥琐吐槽统统没有。它朴实无华到就像身边走过的每一位平凡而快乐的人，哼着歌带你走入幸福的大门。

"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst longstretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to usunsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most ofus lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves now tolive, really live...to love the journey, not thedestination."

在这本书中，作者引用的一首诗歌，也许很好的阐释了她想要向我们诉说的一切：

Beautiful line：

1.Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote to Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator had decided not to run for reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: "No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office."

我最想告诉你的就是千万别以为你的工作就是你的人生，前者只是后者的一部分。请把这个小故事谨记在心：我有个朋友，写了封信给因为罹患癌症而决定放弃竞选连任参议员的保罗.聪格斯（Paul Tsongas),信上说：“我从没听过哪过人在临终时感叹说，但愿自己当初多腾点时间来处理公事。” （名人好读书摘录的精读句子）

2.Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."

Or what John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the Dakota: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

我也永远记得我父亲在去年寄给我的明信片上的话：“在老鼠赛跑中跑第一名又怎么样呢？老鼠还是老鼠。”

约翰.列侬（John Lennon) 在达科他州遭枪击身亡之前写下之句话：“在你忙于做一些所谓人生计划的时候，生命正从你身边悄悄流逝。”（名人好读书值得收藏的哲理句子）

3.But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

但是，你是唯一能够统管自己人生的人--这是你个人的人生，你整个的人生;它不只是办公桌上的人生，搭公车,开车上下班的人生，或是坐在电脑屏幕前的人生而已;它不光是包括你意识上的人生，还包括你心灵真正所属的人生;不单指你的银行存款，还涉及你的灵魂。

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