1. Although something going wrong in any aspect (方面) of your life now seems to push you into temporary despair much more easily than before, you have some very important things to hang on to — people who care, your sense of humor, your talents, your cat
    除此以外，你也得到了某些东西--增长了一点点的知识和大大加深了的对生活的领悟。

2. "No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
    "哦，他不是，"海军陆战队队员回答道。"我这辈子从没见过这个人。"

3. "I'm Aunt Esther Gubbins," she said. "I'm here to tell you you are going to live a good life and be happy. You will work hard and love each other."
    “我是埃丝特·格宾斯阿姨，”她说，“我来这里是想告诉你们，你们的生活会美满、幸福，只要你们勤劳、相爱。”

4. "How peculiar," I thought, "to have your life saved by fried chicken. I saw eternity; they saw food."
    "多奇怪啊，"我心中暗道，"竟然是炸鸡救了我的命。当时我看见了死亡，而他们看见了食物。"

5. All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea, but it is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities, many of whom experienced it in an intensified form and have written it down in their life stories and letters.
    我们都有过灵机一动突然有了这样一个新想法的经历，而这在那些富有创造性的天才人物身上最显而易见。他们中的许多人对这种经历有着强烈的感受，并在回忆录和信函中将其记录了下来。

6. A third type of creative experience is exemplified by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path.
    笛卡尔23岁时所作过的、决定了他的人生道路的一些梦，可以作为第三种创造性经历的例证。

7. Although pills for tension, heart conditions, weight and other life-threatening conditions are prescribed by Western doctors, most now require patients to develop healthy lifestyles by changing diets and exercising more to keep well.
    虽然西医仍在开具着治疗紧张、心脏病、肥胖及其他危及生命的疾病的处方，但如今大多数医生要求病人改变饮食习惯和加强锻炼，以养成健康的生活方式，从而保持健康。

8. "Tough times never last but tough people do," as Robert Schuller says. In other words, face reality and be mature in your responses to life’s challenges.
    正如罗伯特·舒勒所说，“艰苦的时光终将过去，坚强的人必将苦尽甘来。”换言之，要正视现实，要用成熟的心态去迎接生活的挑战。

9. A life of principle, of not yielding to the tempting attractions of an easy morality, will always win the day.
    在生活中如果能坚持原则，抵制住放松道德标准的种种诱惑，那你就会永远立于不败之地。

10. "We see ourselves as preparing kids for a way of life — by cultivating a comprehensive set of principles that can affect all kids."
    我们把帮助孩子培养一种生活方式看作自己的职责，办法是倡导一整套能影响所有孩子的价值观念。"