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经典英语美文：我总能选择

I believe that I always have a choice. No matter what I'm doing. No matter where I am. No matter what is happening to me. I always have a choice.

Today I am sitting at my computer, speaking these words through a microphone. Although I have spent my life typing on a keyboard, I can no longer use my hands. Every day I sit at my computer speaking words instead of typing. In 2003, I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. Over time, this disease will weaken and finally destroy every significant muscle in my body. Ultimately, I will be unable to move, to speak, and finally, to breathe. Already, I am largely dependent upon others. So every day I review my choices.

Living with ALS seems a bit like going into the witness protection program. Everything I have ever known about myself, how I look, how I act, how I interact with the world, is rapidly and radically changing. And yet, with each change, I still have choice. When I could no longer type with my hands, I knew I could give up writing entirely or go through the arduous process of learning how to use voice recognition software. I'm not a young woman. This took real work. Interestingly, I write more now than ever before.

And at an even more practical level, every day I choose not only how I will live, but if I will live. I have no particular religious mandate that forbids contemplating(沉思，注视) a shorter life, an action that would deny this disease its ultimate expression. But this is where my belief in choice truly finds its power. I can choose to see ALS as nothing more than a death sentence or I can choose to see it as an invitation – an opportunity to learn who I truly am.

Even people in the witness protection program must take with them fundamental aspects of themselves which can never change. What are these aspects for me? This is what I learn every day, and so far I have discovered many unique things, but one stands out above the rest. I have discovered in myself an ability to recognize, give, and receive caring in a way far deeper than anything in my life previously. Others have seen this in me as well.

I, who have always been an intensely private and independent person, have allowed a wide circle of family and friends into the most intimate(亲密的) parts of my life. Previously, I would have found such a prospect appalling. I might have felt I had no choice but to embrace the assumption that living with ALS means a life of hardship and isolation. Instead, because I believe that I always have a choice, I opened myself to other possibilities. And now the very thing that at first seemed so abhorrent has graced my life with unaccustomed sweetness. It was always there. Only now I have chosen to see it. This sweetness underscores and celebrates my belief that I always have a choice.

Catherine Royce was diagnosed with ALS when she was 55. She was a dancer for 30 years and a former deputy art commissioner for the city of Boston. Royce lives in Dorchester, Mass., where the family's dining room has been converted into her bedroom.

Independently produced for NPR's Morning Edition by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick. Production assistance from Richard Knox.

经典英语美文：每天都是新起点

"We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite---"

I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy(朦胧的) future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.

We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

I want the future to be better than the past. I don't want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the reminder of our lives.

The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will effect it. Each day will brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.

经典英语美文：愿你的思想永远充满阳光

May you find peace in simple things, because those are the ones that will always be there.

愿你在平凡小事中觅得平和心境，它们呈现出生活最真实的面目。

May you realize the importance of patience and accept others for what they are. With understanding and love, you'll find the good in every heart.

愿你意识到忍耐的重要，接受别人的优缺点。理解和爱能让你看到他们每个人都有闪光的一面。

May you have faith in others and the ablity to be vulnerable. Open your heart and really share the miracle of love and intimacy.

愿你怀抱对他人的信心，不怕接受责难。敞开你的心扉，亲密无间的爱能不可思议地创造奇迹。

May every day of your life bring you fresh hopes for tomorrow---because hopes give us all our reason for trying.

愿你生命中的每一天都对未来充满新的希望--因为有了希望，我们才有追求。

May each new day bring a feeling of excitement, joy, and a wonderful sense of expectation. Expect the best, and you'll get it.

愿激情、欢愉和期待的美好感觉成为你每一天的主旋律。追求完美，你终将如愿以偿。

May you remember the good times and forget the sorrow and pain, for the good times will remind you of how special your life has been.

愿你铭记甜美幸福的时刻，让悲伤和痛苦烟消云散。对美好生活的回忆能让你体会到生命特殊含义。

May you always feel secure and loved, and know you are the best.

愿你时时拥有安全和被爱的感觉。要知道，你是最棒的。

May you experience all the good things in life---the happiness of realizing your dreams, the joy of feeling worthwhile, and the satisfaction of knowing you've succeeded.

愿你体会到生活赐予的所有美好感觉--美梦成真的快乐，努力有所值的欢欣，以及大功告成的满足。

May you find warmth in others, expressions of love and kindness, smiles that encourage you, and friends who are loyal and honest.

愿你能感受人们的温情、爱心与善良，看到他们沁人心脾的微笑，也交到忠诚正直的朋友。

Above all, may you always have positive thoughts.

最重要的是，愿你的思想永远都充满阳光。