如果我想利用意志力，让自己起床起早点、
吃饭吃少点、读书读多点、忧心忧少点、耐性多一点、
或爱心多一点，我只需要洁净我的思想。
So, if I want to have the inner strength to get up earlier,
eat less, read more, worry less, be more patient or be more loving,
all I have to do is exert my will to cleanse my thoughts.
当你能控制你的思绪，你便能控制你的头脑；
当你能控制你的头脑，你便能控制你的生活。
当你能控制你的生活，你便能控制你的命运。
When you control your thoughts, you control your mind.
When you control your mind, you control your life.
And once you reach the stage of being in total control of your life,
you become the master of your destiny.
你的力量比你身处的环境大，亦比困着你的过去大。
要突破这囚牢，你先要成为你意志力的主人。
You have the power to be more than your environment.
Similarly, you have the capacity to be more than a prisoner of your past.
To do this, you must become the master of your will.
记着，文字是极有影响力的，它们内有能量。
如果你满脑子仁慈的句子，你都会变仁慈；
如果你满脑子勇气的句子，你都会变勇敢。
文字是有力量的。
Remember, words are great influences.
Words are the verbal embodiment of power.
By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind.
By filling your mind with words of courage, you become courageous.
Words has power.
当我们出生时，我们在哭而身边的世界在欢庆。
我们应该选择的生活方式， 是当我们离开世间时，
身边的世界为了我们的离去哭泣，而我们自己在欢庆。
When we are born, we are crying while the world rejoices.
We should live our lives in such a way that when we die,
the world cries while we are rejoicing."
This story begins when I was a child: I was born poor. Often we hadn't enough to eat. Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say "Eat this rice, son! I'm not hungry."
This was Mother's First Lie.
As I grew, Mother gave up her spare time to fish in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she caught, she could give me a little bit more nutritious food for my growth. Once she had caught just two fish, she would make fish soup. While I was eating the soup, mother would sit beside me and eat what was still left on the bone of the fish I had eaten; My heart was touched when I saw it. Once I gave the other fish to her on my chopstick but she immediately refused it and said, "Eat this fish, son! I don't really like fish."
This was Mother's Second Lie.
Then, in order to fund my education, Mother went to a Match Factory to bring home some used matchboxes which she filled with fresh matchsticks. This helped her get some money to cover our needs. One wintry night I awoke to find Mother filling the matchboxes by candlelight. So I said, "Mother, go to sleep; it's late: you can continue working tomorrow morning." Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep, son! I'm not tired."
This was Mother's Third Lie.
When I had to sit my Final Examination, Mother accompanied me. After dawn, Mother waited for me for hours in the heat of the sun. When the bell rang, I ran to meet her. Mother embraced me and poured me a glass of tea that she had prepared in a thermos. The tea was not as strong as my Mother's love, Seeing Mother covered with perspiration; I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too. Mother said "Drink, son! I'm not thirsty!
This was Mother's Fourth Lie.
After Father's death, Mother had to play the role of a single parent. She held on to her former job; she had to fund our needs alone. Our family's life was more complicated. We suffered from starvation. Seeing our family's condition worsening, my kind Uncle who lived near my house came to help us solve our problems big and small. Our other neighbors saw that we were poverty stricken so they often advised my mother to marry again. But Mother refused to remarry saying "I don't need love."
This was Mother's Fifth Lie.
After I had finished my studies and gotten a job, it was time for my old Mother to retire but she carried on going to the market every morning just to sell a few vegetables. I kept sending her money but she was steadfast and even sent the money back to me. She said, "I have enough money."
That was Mother's Sixth Lie.
I continued my part-time studies for my Master's Degree. Funded by the American Corporation for which I worked, I succeeded in my studies. With a big jump in my salary, I decided to bring Mother to enjoy life in America but Mother didn't want to bother her son; she said to me "I'm not used to high living."
That was Mother's Seventh Lie.
In her dotage, Mother was attacked by cancer and had to be hospitalized. Now living far across the ocean, I went home to visit Mother who was bedridden after an operation. Mother tried to smile but I was heartbroken because she was so thin and feeble but Mother said, "Don't cry, son! I'm not in pain."
That was Mother's Eighth Lie.
M - O - T - H - E - R
"M" is for the Million things she gave me,
"O" means Only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the Tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her Heart of gold,
"E" is for her Eyes with love-light shining in them,
"R" means Right, and right she'll always be.
Put them all together,
they spell "MOTHER" a word that means the world to me.
There is nothing more important than your family, spend more time with them before it is too late.
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They have survived for 450 million years. They control 2/3 of the planet. They are the world's top predator. But they are not our enemy. They're our greatest hope...
While a man was polishing his new car, His 4 yr old son picked up a stone And scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the child's hand and hit it many times not realizing he was using a wrench. At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures. When the child saw his father..... with painful eyes he asked, 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times. Devastated by his own actions...... sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches; the child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'. The next day that man committed suicide. . .
Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life & remember this: Things are to be used and people are to be loved. The problem in today's world is that people are used while things are loved. Let's try always to keep this thought in mind: Things are to be used, People are to be loved.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character; Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
I hope you have a good day no matter what problems you may face it's the only day you'll have before it's over.
One of the advertisement that Yasmin Ahmad did for Petronas, which I think is very meaningful and has family values that people tend to overlook and forget.
当我老了，不再是原来的我。 请理解我，对我有一点耐心。 When I am old and no longer the one I used to be, Please understand and be patient with me.
当我把菜汤洒到自己的衣服上时，当我忘记怎样系鞋带时， 请想一想当初我是如何手把手地教你。 When I spill food on my clothes, when i forget how to tie my shoes, Please remember how I had once held your hands and taught you.
当我一遍又一遍地重复你早已听腻的话语， 请耐心听我说，不要打断我。 你小的时候，我不得不重复那个讲过千百遍的故事，直到你进入梦乡。 When I repeat over and over again words that bored you stiff, Please be patient and listen and do not cut me off. When you were little, I had to tell you the same story that had been told thousands of times until you drifted to sleep.
当我需要你帮我洗澡时， 请不要责备我。 还记得小时候我千方百计哄你洗澡的情形吗？ When I need you to help me take a bath, Please don't get mad at me. Do you remember how many ways I had to think of in order to coax you into taking a bath when you were young?
当我对新科技和新事物不知所措时， 请不要嘲笑我。 想一想当初我怎样耐心的回答你的每一个“为什么”。 When I am at a lost with new technology, Please don't laugh at me. Just think about how I had patiently answered your every "why is that so?"
当我由于双腿疲劳而无法行走时， 请伸出你年轻有力的手搀扶我。 就像你小时候学习走路时，我扶你那样。 When my legs are tired and I am too frail to walk, Please extend your youthful and strong hands to hold me, Just like the way I had held you when you learned how to walk.
当我忽然忘记我们谈话的主题时， 请给我一些时间让我回想， 其实对我来说，谈论什么并不重要， 只要你能在一旁听我说，我就很满足。 When I forget the subject of our conversation, Please give me a little time to recall. Actually, what we discuss is not important. As long as you are willing to listen to me I am happy.
当你看着老去的我，请不要悲伤。 理解我，支持我，就像你刚开始学习如何生活时我对你那样。 When you see me grew old, don't be sad. Understand me, support me, just like the way I treated you when you began to learn how to live.
当初我引导你走上人生的路，如今请陪伴我走完最后的路。 给我你的爱和耐心，我会抱以感激的微笑， 这微笑中凝结着我对你无限的爱。 I had led you to the path of living but now please accompany me to walk through life's last journey. Give me your love and patience and I will return with an appreciative smile; and in this smile is all the boundless love I have for you.
-文章择选自墨西哥 “数学家庭” 二零零四年十一月号 - Translated from a Mexican magazine, November issue, 2004.
----------------------------------------------------------- Old Age
There was a woman,because she could not get along with her family, rarely goes home. One day she went home, she saw her mother limping.When she looked at her mother's feet, she discovered that her mother's toe nail had grown too long, so long that it grew into the flesh.There were blood and pus.
It had been quite some time since she really looked at her mother's face. She realized that her mother is in her old age, and she could not even bend down to cut her own toe nails which led to the bleeding and the pus. This made the woman cry.
Since that day, the woman went home every weekend. She would soak her mother's feet in a basin and then cut her toe nails. She soaks her mother's feet in warm water before cutting the toe nails is to soften the toe nails, so as to not cause pain when cutting the toe nails.
She always assume that her parents are able to adept to the changes in the world, the new technology, the new information, new financial outlook. Only recently did she realized that they could not catch up with the technology. Most of the remote controls were too complex for them and terms that were completely strange financial investments.
Sometimes they are afraid to say or do things they want to do because they are afraid to trouble us.If I had gone home, I would not have known that my father who retired for sometime who had so meticulously took care of my children, had grown old so quickly.
Three out five of us decided to take our parents to Singapore by plane. For four hours our father did not want to go to the toilet even as we persuaded him,refusing to stand up. I noticed he took a long time to urinate. He looked left and right trying to look for someone familiar. Even though he felt lost he did not shout for us because he was afraid that he would embarrass us.
Standing in a crowd of complete strangers looking lost, he was quietly waiting for us to appear, only then did i realized the reason for his refusal to go to the toilet. I used to laugh at my 80 year old grandmother who did not know how to button her own shirt, and wondered how she could not complete such a simple task.
It is hard for us to understand why because we have not experienced old age, losing control of hands and feet. I thought that my father would not be like my grandmother,surprisingly he turned out to have the same problem. I forced him to go to the toilet and I waited outside. At first he was uncomfortable, but he gradually got used to it.
On the flight back home, as i accompanied him to the toilet, he said: 「 Actually I do not know how to lock the toilet door. 」I patted him on the back and said: 「Nevermind.」however in my heart i felt sad.I really wanted to tell my sisters to bring each of our husbands along for the next trip to help out,I also wanted to tell my other sister who did not follow us on this trip that money can be earned back anytime but our parents will not always be healthy and be able to travel like this, this is considered a blessing.
I wanted to tell my father : If he could get used to the toilets outside, the next time we go for a trip, we can travel further.This trip left me with many thoughts, on the train i could not hold back the tears. Perhaps i was too sensitive or maybe i was worried about my parents condition.Only now did I realized that my parents had grown old and had become fragile.They were no longer how they used to be.
Foie Gras means "Fat Liver". It's a luxury dish that originated from France. But this dish comes from feeding a goose more than it can eat to make the goose or duck have FATTY LIVER DISEASE.
Let's see the source of this 'wonderful dish'.
The geese are forced to eat even it doesn't desire.
The metal pipe pass though throat to stomach even if it does not want to eat anything. The purpose is to make the liver become bigger and fatter.
The cages are so cramped that the geese can not turn their body around or move.
Their legs become bloated from standing too long everyday. They can't sleep because they will be caught to be forced to eat again.
Although they try to defend themselves, it is useless.
This how sad their lives is . They are forced to eat until they are either dead or their bodies can't stand this. You can see it's mouth is full of food.
If they survive they might have inflamed buttocks. Blood easily come up with the feces(poop).
Not only does it hurt in mouth, hurt in throat , stomachache from the food all the time, fat to bloated legs, lack of sleep, lack exercise. But also lack freedom life to see the sky or river.
To get the beautiful and white liver that is unusually big like this. As Liver-canned from aboard.
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