利用英语经典美文开展阅读教学,是培养学生阅读能力的有效形式。教师在教学中充分利用丰富多彩、题材多样、富有典型性的英语美文为载体优化阅读教学过程,对指引学生参与、体验、赏析、领悟等阅读活动,提高英语阅读技能,培养英语阅读能力具有重要意义。 本文是关于有哲理的英语美文，希望对大家有帮助!

关于有哲理的英语美文：Have a good time in the journey

Often, achieving what you set out to do is not the most important thing.

A goal causes us to move in the direction that we have chosen. But not every goal will be fully achieved. Not every job end successfully. Not every relationship will endure. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every endeavor will be completed. Not every dream will be realized.

Life has its up and downs, its peaks and its valleys. No one is up all the time, nor are they down all the time. The tough people who survive the tough time do sobecause they have chosen to react positively to their predicanment. Tough times never last, but tough people do. Tough people stick it out. History teaches us that every problem has a lifespan. No problem is perment. Storms always give way to the sun. Winter always thaws into springtime. Your problem will be solved.

You may not have started out life in the best circumstance. But if you find a mission in your life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you from acheving success.

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughs, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thonght and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

It is in the things we do that life is lived. And it's the joy in the journey, in the end, that turn matters.

关于有哲理的英语美文：热情成就未来

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't."

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying(急跑) of a beetle.

It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.

At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir(长寿药) that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.

Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.

We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be."

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.

关于有哲理的英语美文：Life in the Country

If I could make a change in my life I would live far far out in the country. That way I could realize my dream to run an animal shelter. The shelter I would own would be "no-kill" shelters. The only way an animal would die in my shelter would be if it were really suffering or old and in pain, and nothing could be done to help it. I would collect all the "death row" animals from shelters all over the city and bring the animals to my roomy(宽敞的) country shelter.

I could house many different animals such as dogs, cats, birds, pigs, cows, horses, rabbits and any other animal in need of my help. As soon as I receive the animal, I would size up its needs and decide if it should be adopted by an older person, people with kids, people with lots of room, or people with other animals. I would give them all their shots and check them for diseases such as rabies.

After evaluating and photographing each animal, I would type a summary of the animal's information and put it on my website. If a person were interested in one of my animals they would contact my website. I would then interview them to make sure they made a good match.

I would try to pay for all the animals' expenses by asking for contributions from companies that sell animal care products like dog food and dog treats. I would trade local veterinarians(兽医) my help for their medical support for my animals. I would also charge a small fee with each animal adoption.

Ever since I was born I've had animals around me. Through my life so far I've owned four dogs, a turtle, tadpoles(蝌蚪), mice, hermit crab, birds, and a rabbit. I have also nursed a baby squirrel back to life. I've appreciated animals ever since I was a very little girl. I have seen on the news what some people can do to their own pets, like abuse and neglect, and I want to be able to help those animals in need.