有时会在书店买打折的日历，一是喜欢图片的美丽，二是喜欢图片下的英文短句。
现转摘如下:
“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
---MARK TWAIN
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase"
---MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
"You practice and you get better. It's very simple."
---PHILIP GLASS
"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean that you do nothing , but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."
---ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
"To move , to breathe, to fly, to float
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live!"
---HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
"Simplify the problem of life:
distinguish the necessary and the real.
Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
---HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Broadly speaking ,
short words are best,
and the old words, when short.,
are best of all."
---WINSTON CHURCHILL
"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable , but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
---HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Rain is grace;
rain is the sky condescending to the earth;
without rain, there would be no life."
---JOHN UPDIKE
"Better keep yourself clean and bright:
You are the window through which
you must see the world."
---GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
