A young man asked a rich man the way to success, but the rich man put three watermelons of different sizes in front of the young man: "If each watermelon represents a certain degree of interest, which one do you choose?"

"The biggest piece, of course!" The young man answered without hesitation.

The rich man smiled: "Well, please!" The rich man handed the biggest watermelon to the young man, but he ate the smallest one himself. Soon the rich man finished eating, then picked up the last watermelon on the table, proudly waved it in front of the young man and swallowed it in one gulp. The young man immediately understood the rich man's meaning: the rich man ate much more melons than the young man, although they were not as big as the young man. If each piece represents a certain degree of interest, then the rich naturally have more interests than the young.

After eating the watermelon, the rich man said to the young man, "If you want to succeed, you must learn to give up. Only by giving up immediate interests can we get long-term profits. This is my road to success. "

2. World famous songs with outstanding achievements.

18 14 One night, a young man who loves music walked through the streets of Vienna. Because his family is poor and can't afford to buy a piano, he goes to primary school to practice piano every day. He likes composing music, but sometimes he is too poor to buy paper for composing music. At the moment, he was worrying about his livelihood on his way home when he suddenly saw a child in rags standing by a thrift store, selling a book and an old dress in his hand. The young man recognized that the child had been a singing boy in the choir he taught, and his nose was sore at once. Great sympathy drove him to find out what little Gulton was in his thin clothes and bought this old book. The young man was reading a book while walking, only to find that there was a poem "Wild Rose" by Goethe, a great poet. He recited it again and again, and the whole body and mind were melted by the artistic conception of the poem, and a fresh and kind melody floated out from the depths of the soul. This young man is Schubert, who is known as the "King of Songs". His famous song Wild Rose has become a treasure in the world music treasure house, and its manuscript is even more valuable. However, how many people know that the birth of this famous song stems from his kind heart?

Of all the moral qualities, the kind nature is the most needed in the world, because it can arouse Su Sheng who lives in a humane life.

3, the power of discretion

A boy named Mike is tall and strong. His mother is afraid that he will become a bully in school. She is very strict with him, telling him to be kind to others and learn to be patient. As a result, many children bullied him, pushed him and even beat him. Mike said to his father, "I really want to hit them hard, but I know my mother will be angry if I do." Father listened to Mike's story quietly, and then quietly said to him; "You don't have to hit them. You can let them know in other ways that you can't stand their bullying any more. For example, strive for self-esteem, such as building self-confidence. "

One day, Mike's parents were called to school by the teacher. It turned out that Mike and the children were playing on the basketball court, often bullying his children and trying to tease him, but Mike didn't stand there as usual, but told them to stop, but they didn't listen. Mike had to hold two of them tightly on the basketball court, but missed. Later, Mike and the two children both admitted their mistakes and shook hands. Since then, there has never been that kind of bullying in Mike's class, and Mike has become the most popular person in the class. Later, Mike became a hero worshipped by countless fans-Mike Jordan.

Perhaps, each of us has a similar experience as Michael Jordan when he was a child. At this time, some people will advise us to be patient, while others will ask us to fight back. In fact, the content of life is far from so simple. Because, as far as people are concerned, what matters is not tolerance, not fighting, but getting along.

In life, we should be kind to others and learn to safeguard dignity and rights. Taking both into consideration, we need to grasp proper limit and proper limit, which can make us full of strength, and this strength will be the beginning of our successful life.

4. Ten pounds of regret

The role of steam engines in the world is epoch-making. With it, large machines have gained great power. It was the appearance of the steam engine that led to the beginning of the great industrial age.

It is generally believed that this time in Watt's patent specification 1789 is the first year in age of steam. However, this time should be much earlier. If a slightly tolerant gentleman can appear, it is possible for human beings to have the first practical steam engine technology at 1689. Because in this year, the French invented a demonstration steam engine. This cautious and poor gentleman sincerely applied to the Royal Society for a research grant of 65,438+00 to improve and perfect his invention. However, the stingy Royal Society thinks that funding a naive idea is a waste of money, so it puts forward a condition that is unacceptable to explorers: the experiment must be successful! It is precisely because of the lack of tolerance that the opportunity of communication and communication is lost, the potential value of mistakes and even mistakes is ignored, and the opportunity for improvement, perfection and success is mercilessly deprived.

Many times, we really should reflect more on the issue of tolerance. The virtue of tolerance will give you the opportunity to observe, appreciate, judge and appreciate from different angles while tolerating the shortcomings of others, so that you can see and learn from the advantages of others.

5. Like pecking eggshells

An impatient hen hatched her chicks. In order to let her chickens have enough bugs to eat, she caught a lot of bugs in advance and put them aside. But it has been hatched for many days, and the baby chick still doesn't come out of the eggshell. The hen couldn't wait, so she pecked open the eggshell and stuffed the worms into it to feed the chickens. This is a group of pictures drawn by an American girl named Mango. The name of this painting is mother hen and her baby that will never hatch.

I don't know how Little Mango came up with the idea of drawing such a group of pictures. Did she really observe that there was such a hen in the chicken? No, there is no such silly hen in the chicken. I think, nine times out of ten, this idea of hers comes from the observer. Only those who think they are the spirits of all things will do such stupid things that often make people laugh and cry, peck through the "eggshell", forcibly express their love and force others to accept their love. Only when the "eggshell" is pecked, love will become hurt and often lead to a terrible ending.

In many cases, there is an eggshell between people. Love each other through the "eggshell" and warm each other, no matter what; It is wrong to peck the eggshell and feed it to other bugs.

6. Freedom is conditional.

When I first came to teach in the United States, I often ran in the corridor of the office building and was once scolded by a colleague. I asked him at that time: "I didn't hit you again, how could it affect you?" Running is my freedom. "My colleague said with a straight face," You ran away, which made me feel uneasy, so your freedom affected my freedom. "

At the funeral of China people, people can cry for the land, even if they don't cry, it is considered unfilial and heartless.

However, in western funerals, relatives can stop crying, but they will be regarded as a sign of self-control. Because bereavement is your own business, it is impolite to cry loudly and leave others at a loss. The same is true of "laughter". How many times have you been to high-end western restaurants and seen people laughing loudly?

Even if something is too funny, keep your voice down, because if you laugh, it will disturb others, which is also impolite.

This reminds me that when my daughter learned to skate, she once took part in a competition. One of the children skated best and had no name. The reason is that throwing things on the ground is forbidden in the game, but at the end of the game, the child proudly throws the small wreath in his hand into the air.

"This is so great? She skates really well! " Someone asked. "It's not good to be too good but not law-abiding." The referee said.

It turns out that freedom has a necessary condition, that is, it cannot affect the freedom of others; Freedom is based on self-control and obeying the law.

7. Last words

Ned ransom is the most famous priest in Lyon, France, and enjoys high prestige in both poor and rich areas. In his life, he visited the dying people more than 65,438+0,000 times and listened to their confessions.

At the age of 84, he was too old to get close to people who needed him. One day, an old woman knocked on his door and said that her husband was dying and wanted to see him before he died. Unwilling to disappoint the old woman, Ranson was helped by others to the deathbed. The dying man is a 72-year-old cloth shop owner. When he was young, he learned to play the trumpet with the famous musician karajan. He said that he likes music very much. At that time, his grades were far above that of karajan, and his teachers were very optimistic about his future. Unfortunately, at the age of 20, he was fascinated by horse racing and neglected music, otherwise he must be an excellent musician. Now that life is coming to an end, he feels very sorry for his mediocrity. He told Ransom that if he had another choice, he would never do such a foolish thing again. He asked God to forgive him. Lanson understood his feelings, tried his best to appease him, and told him that this confession was also very inspiring to the priest.

Later, Lanson tried to sort out his more than 60 diaries, which were the last confessions of these people, but they were all destroyed by the earthquake in Lyon. By this time, he was 90 years old. Lanson died and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His handwriting was neatly engraved on the tombstone: if time could be turned back, half the people in the world would become great men.

8. Public morality needs to be cautious.

One afternoon, as soon as our car drove to the crossroads, it came to a red light. Some pedestrians and cyclists are also trapped there. Soon, when someone saw that there was no traffic passing through the intersection, they generously rushed to the red light and others rushed away. However, a girl riding a bicycle has been sitting tight. It means "everyone is drunk, I wake up alone". I looked out of the window. The girl is about twenty years old. She wears a pair of glasses and has a short braid. She looks like a student. The girl didn't step on the gas until the red light turned green. I looked at her back and couldn't help but admire her. At the same time, I thought of the word "cautious independence"

A few years ago, when I went to America, I once saw a middle-aged woman embroidering on a piece of cloth in the waiting room. Gold thread and silver thread, the needle started and fell, and in a short time, a beautiful little flower was embroidered. Then, she took out a pair of small scissors from her bag and trimmed some exposed threads. To my surprise, she didn't let the thread as big as sesame fall to the ground (in fact, it won't be found by the naked eye), but put them in a small pocket the size of a matchbox and picked up the thread that was accidentally dropped. This reminds me of "cautious independence" again.

Among the bustling crowds in the city, uncivilized behaviors such as running red lights, littering and spitting are still quite common and have become a chronic disease for some people. I think the most fundamental way is to enhance the public morality consciousness of all citizens, especially to advocate and learn the spirit of being cautious and independent in front of public morality.

9. The more cases are solved. ...

"The more criminal cases are cracked, the greater the damage to the people, indicating that the public security department's public security prevention work has not been done well. I would rather not have a high detection rate than a case. This is the simplest idea of many people. "

-Ma Tinggang wrote an article in Qilu Evening News about the report that a county public security bureau detected 2 178 criminal case last year.

"The difficulty of marriage is that we fall in love with each other's advantages, but live with their shortcomings."

-Writer Peter Dewey

"If a person can get up in the morning and fall asleep at night, and do what he wants to do during this time, he will succeed."

-Bob Dylan, a famous American rock singer, thinks that success in life is as simple as that.

10, the meaning of life

Regarding the connotation of life, most of China's dictionaries say this: "Life refers to human existence and all his life experiences." But in American textbooks, it is stated as: "Life is a performance for people's dreams and interests."

-one said "survival" and the other said "performance", which shows the different cultural colors between China and the West.

Learning is a person's real housekeeping skill, the first characteristic, the first strength, the first wisdom and the first source. Everything else is the result of learning, which is the benefit of learning.

-famous writer Wang Meng on learning.

Let children know how to take care of themselves. He knows how to put on shoes, how to put on clothes and how to take off clothes without help. In his joy, he embodies human dignity, because human dignity comes from a person's independent perception.

-Italian educator and Dr. Montessori on dignity education

Half of the printed books have not been sold; Half of the books sold are unread; I didn't understand half of the books I read; Half of the books you understand are wrong.

-A publisher's sigh about today's book market