1·Life is like an Echo. What you give is what you will get; what you send is what you will receive.

2·If you let fear hold you back and let life push you around, you can hardly experience the thrill of exploring your personal best.

3·seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition and beyond image.

4·“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unsuccessful genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Proverb: 一般指谚语，此处指人尽皆知的事实

His punctuality is a proverb. / He is a proverb for punctuality. 他严守时间是众人皆知的。

Derelict: 流浪汉，无家可归的人，或失业的人

a ragged old derelict 一位衣衫褴褛被遗弃的老人

Omnipotent: 全能的，无所不能的

      the Omnipotent指上帝

Press on：奋力前行，坚持努力

5·“Once a person stops searching information and knowledge, ignorance sets in.”

6·The better you are at communication, negotiation and handling your fear of rejection, the easier your life will be.

7·“What goes around comes around.”

8·“smile, and the world smiles with you.”

9·The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;       

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,        

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.        

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Life is really a reflection of our habits.

10·简·奥斯汀Jane Austen在《曼斯菲尔德庄园Mansfield Park》关于memory的一段描写

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

faculty: 天赋的智能或能力。

the faculty of memory 记忆力

speakingly: 适于说的

incomprehensible: 不能理解的，莫测高深的。

be incomprehensible to ordinary mind 非普通人所能理解的

inequality: 不平等。

Great inequalities in wealth may cause social unrest. 贫富悬殊可能引起社会动乱。

retentive: 有保持力的。

a retentive memory 好记性

serviceable: 耐用的。

serviceable shoes 耐穿的鞋子

obedient: 服从的、顺从的。

be obedient to one's parents 顺从父母

bewilder: 使迷惑；使昏乱。

I was bewildered by the maze of streets in the city. 我被城市里错综复杂的街道弄糊涂了。

tyrannic: 同tyrannical. 暴虐的、专横的、专政的。

a tyrannical government专制政府

recollect: 回想、追忆。

if I recollect correctly 假如我没记错的话

find out: 弄明白，理解，找出原因