自改革开放以来,我国对外交流逐渐密切,因此社会各界对于英语的重视程度也与日俱增,在大学阶段的英语教学过程中对于基础知识和语法使用的内容比例大范围下降,而增加了 实用英语 的内容。下面是我带来的心灵鸡汤英语小 故事 阅读，欢迎阅读!
心灵鸡汤英语小故事阅读篇一
Flotsam, Jetsam, and Liberty
By James Carey
Perhaps more than anything else in the world, I believe in liberty: liberty for myself, liberty for my fellow men. I cannot forget the legend engred on the base of the Statue of Liberty on Bedlows Island in New York Harbor: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. That is the voice of America.
As one small part of it, one tiny decibel in its sound, I, as a free individual of America, believe in it. It makes no boast of noble ancestry. On the contrary, it admits honestly that each of us in this country, with a possible and qualified exception of our native Indians, is a displaced person. In a particular kind of way, the Indian was our first displaced person. If you and I did not come from abroad ourselves, our forefathers did. The scores that drove them was economic, political, or religious oppression.
Oppression has always strewn the shores of life with wretched human refuse. We who today are the proud people of a proud country are what might be called the reclaimed refuse of other lands. The fact that the flotsam and the jetsam, the persecuted and the pursued of all these other lands, the fact that they came here and, for the most part, successfully started life anew, this renews my faith in the resilience of a human individual and the dignity of man.
There are those who say we should be content with the material benefits we he accrued among ourselves. I cannot accept that for myself. A laboring man needs bread and butter, and cash to pay the rent. But he would be a poor individual, indeed, if he were not able to furnish the vestibule of his mind and his soul with spiritual embellishments beyond the price of a union contract.
I mean by this that I believe it is important for a man to discover, whether he is an electrical worker or an executive, that he is an individual with his own resources and a sense of the dignity of his own person and that of other men. We are separate. We are collective. Man can be strong alone but not indomitable, in isolation. He has to belong to something, to realize he is not created separately or apart from the rest of mankind, whether he is an American or a Mohammedan.
I am stirred by the abundance of the fields, the forest, the streams, and the natural resources they hold. But do these things make me important? He we wrought the miracle of America because of these riches we hold? I say, no. Our strength?and I can say my strength, too, because I am a part of this whole?lies in a fundamental belief in the validity of human rights. And I believe that a man who holds these rights in proper esteem is greater, whether he is recognized or not.
As an individual, I must face the future with honesty and faith, in the goods things that he made us mighty. I must he confidence in myself, in others, and all men of goodwill everywhere, for freedom is the child of truth and confidence.
心灵鸡汤英语小故事阅读篇二
Dreams Are the Stuff Life Is Made Of
By Carroll Carroll
I believe I am a very lucky man.
My entire life has been lived in the healthy area between too little and too much. I?ve never experienced financial or emotional insecurity, but everything I he, I?ve attained by my own work, not through indulgence, inheritance, or privilege.
Never hing lived by the abuses of any extreme, I?ve always felt that a workman is worthy of his hire, a merchant entitled to his profit, an artist to his reward.
As a result of all this, my bargaining bump may be a little underdeveloped, so I?ve never tried to oversell myself. And though I may work for less than I know I can get, I find that because of this, I?m never so afraid of losing a job that I?m forced to compromise with my principles.
Naturally in a life as mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially fortunate as mine has been, a great many people he helped me. A few meant to, most did so by accident. I still feel I must reciprocate. This doesn?t mean that I?ve dedicated my life to my fellow man. I?m not the type. But I do feel I should help those I?m qualified to help, just as I?ve been helped by others.
What I?m saying now is, I feel, part of that pattern. I think everyone should, for his own sake, try to reduce to six hundred words the beliefs by which he lives?it?s not easy?and then compare those beliefs with what he enjoys?not in real estate and money and goods, but in love, health, hiness, and laughter.
I don?t believe we live our lives and then receive our reward or punishment in some afterlife. The life and the reward?the life and the punishment?these to me are one. This is my religion, coupled with a firm belief that there is a Supreme Being who planned this world and runs it so thatno man is an island, entire of himself The dishonesty of any one man subverts all honesty. The lack of ethics anywhere adulterates the whole world?s ethical content. In these?honesty and ethics?are, I think, the true spiritual values.
I believe the hope for a thoroughly honest and ethical society should never be laughed at. The most idealistic dreams he repeatedly forecast the future. Most of the things we think of today as hard, practical, and even indispensable were once merely dreams.
So I like to hope that the world need not be a dog-eat-dog jungle. I don?t think I?m my brother?s keeper. But I do think I?m obligated to be his helper. And that he has the same obligation to me.
In the last analysis, the entire pattern of my life and belief can be found in the wordsdo NOT do unto others that which you would NOT he others do unto you.? To sayDo unto others as you would he others DO unto you? somehow implies bargaining, an offer of for for for. But to restrain from acts which you, yourself, would abhor is an exercise in will power that must raise the level of human relationship.
?What is unpleasant to thyself,? says Hillel,THAT do NOT unto thy neighbor. This is the whole law,? and he concluded,All else is exposition.?
心灵鸡汤英语小故事阅读篇三
A Ball to Roll Around
By Robert Allman
I lost my sight when I was 4 years old by falling off a boxcar in a freight yard in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and landing on my head. Now, I am 32. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again. But a calamity can do strange things to people.
It occurred to me the other day that I might not he come to love life so, as I do, if I hadn?t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would he believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don?t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me more reciate what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid, but I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me?oh, a potential to live you might call it?which I didn?t see. And they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn?t been able to do that, I would he collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say believe in myself, I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it, but I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate, pattern of people, there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things.
When I was a youngster, once a man ge me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me, and I was hurt.
?I can?t use this,? I said.
?Take it with you, he urged me,and roll it around.?
The words stuck in my head:Roll it around, roll it around.? By rolling the ball, I could listen where it went. This ge me an idea?how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia?s Overbrook School for the Blind, I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it groundball.
All my life, I he set ahead of me a series of goals, and then tried to reach them one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach, because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway, but on the erage, I made progress.
I believe I made progress more readily because of a pattern of life shaped by certain values. I find it easier to live with myself if I try to be honest. I find strength in the friendship and interdependence of people. I would be blind, indeed, without my sighted friends. And very humbly, I say that I he found purpose and comfort in a mortal?s ambition toward godliness.
Perhaps a man without sight is blinded less by the importance of material things than other men are. All I know is that a belief in the higher existence of a nobility for men to strive for has been an inspiration that has helped me more than anything else to hold my life together.
All the Good Things
He was in the first third-grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million[1]. Very neat in earance, he had that hy-to-be-alive attitude[2] that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful.
Mark also talked incessantly. I had to remind him again and again that talking without permission was not acceptable. What impressed me so much, though, was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehing. "Thank you for correcting me, Sister[3]!" I didn't know what to make of it at first, but before long I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day.
One morning my patience was growing thin[4] when Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake. I looked at Mark and said, "If you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut[5]!"
答：此题句摘自新编大学英语阅读部分第三册Unit05-2 ，来自《心灵鸡汤》，上文供参考。
记住：sb. was doing sth. when sth. hened. 这个句型能使你做题又快又对。
译：有一天上午，我的耐心将至极限，就在这时，Mark又说话了，这次我是忍无可忍了。我犯了一个新老师才会犯的错误：。。。。
1、You he to believe in yourself . Thats the secret of success.
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。
2、Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
3、The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。
4、Gods determine what youre going to be.
人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。
5、What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。
6、Cease to struggle and you cease to live.
生命不止，奋斗不息。
7、Believe that god is fair.
相信上帝是公平的。
8、Wealth is the test of a mans character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石。
9、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say impossible .
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
10、Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
很精辟适合发朋友圈的励志说说1、哪怕你已经受伤、鲜血淋漓和疼痛难忍，你还是得继续奋斗。
2、强者，不是没有眼泪，而是含着眼泪依然奔跑。告诫自己：越是有故事的人，越沉静简单；越肤浅单薄的人，越浮躁不安。
3、如果你连工作挣钱都要别人开导你，都要人盯着、看着、哄着、鼓励着，劝你还是别干了，那你就应该穷，这不是鸡汤，这是现实。
4、心安定下来的当下，就会爆发出内在的智慧，智慧会让你很有力量。
5、抱不到的你和看不到未来，最终都被时间打败，你终于不再是我人生里的讳莫如深，那段过往也变成了酒后提起微微一笑的故事。
6、美好的日子带给你欢快，阴暗的日子带给你历练，生命中所有的日子都有其存在的意义，没必要去遗憾任何一天。
7、没有哪一种生活、哪一种年龄不会遭遇辛苦，我们的奋斗和努力，不是为了挣脱，而是为了可以拥有更多选择的资格。努力，赋予了我们改变的可能，又在每一次的选择过后，让我们变得更加优秀。
8、很多时候你纠结的并不是事情的对错，而是对方选择第一时间和谁说。你可以从中判断你是他的内还是外，主还是次。前者可以救一救，后者再苦也要撒手，总好过半路让位。
9、好好经营自己比什么都好，你还年轻，谈什么岁月静好，谁不是暗自努力，只为青春不腐朽，凡事看淡一点，再努力一点，一切会慢慢变好。愿你更加强大，然后有一天，你可以笑着讲述那些曾让你哭的瞬间。
10、吸取教训是健康的做法，这是个人成长过程中的必要环节。悔恨则是一种不健康的心理。这是白白浪费自己目前的精力。
11、你曾经是否有过这样的一场爱情。车站与机场，时间和距离。你们一起走过很长的一段路，挨过了很多辛苦，但最后还是没能迈过那个坎。没有出轨，没有背叛，没有狗血，但就是没办法继续在一起了。
12、成年人的世界，不存在永恒的靠山，你最强的靠山就是你的努力和独立。
13、你纵有千百个理由放弃，也要找一个理由坚持，能激励你，温暖你，感动你的，不是励志语录心灵鸡汤，而是身边比你优秀的人比你还努力。
14、精彩的人生是在挫折中造就的，挫折是一个人的炼金石，许多挫折往往是好的开始。你只要按照自己的禀赋发展自我，不断地超越心灵的绊马索，你就不会发现自己生命中的太阳熠熠闪耀着光彩！
15、我只愿蓬勃生活在此时此刻，无所谓去哪，无所谓见谁，那些我将要去的地方，都是我从未谋面的故乡；那些我将要见的人，都会成为我的朋友。
16、不管做什么行业，都有一年的学徒期，两年的生存期，三年的职业期，最后再步向事业期，一旦认定某个行业，开始了就坚持下去，跳岗，就意味着重新开始，半途而废只能让你停留在生存期，浪费青春，然后不断的降低自己的要求，最终一事无成，人一旦习惯凑合，那这辈子可能会永远凑合。
17、就算跑最后一名又怎样，至少我又运动精神。而且我一定会跑完全程，只要跑到终点我就成功了!
18、当你想放弃，有人却坚信前进就有希望。那些比你走得远的人，并不比你聪慧，只是每天多走了一点。坚持，是最强大的力量。
19、机会是留给努力奋斗的人的，有谁的，凭空而来，只有当你足够努力，你才会足够。这世界不会辜负每一份努力和坚持。时光不会怠慢执着而勇敢的每一个人，早安！
20、真正决定一个人成败的，从来就不是天分，任何人用十年时间，心无旁骛地做一件事，都会成为顶极人才。你可以岁月静好，但生活不会。你不拼命，命要拼你。你能坚持到什么程度，决定你能达到什么高度。把自己逼到极限后，你也能拥有让人仰视的背影。
21、不去惦记得失，不去顾虑成败，面对生活，从容、镇静，无论结果如何，笑脸相迎，乐观对待，即使，前途渺茫，道路曲折，依然坚信，路，就在脚下。人生，所有的一切，就是破解，就是明了。奋斗，就是一种证明，告诉我们前行，不惧生活的艰辛，相信，你能。
22、所谓饭局，吃的不是饭，而是局；所谓敬酒，敬的也不是人，而是身份。拒绝喧嚣，复归宁静，拒绝奢华，返璞归真，这是我们每个人都要做的功课。
适合发朋友圈的励志说说大全一、人生有太多的身不由己，又有太多无人能够体会的心酸与过往，一个人的时候要流着眼泪故作坚强，生活总有华丽的转身……当心灵没有栖息的地方，不要选择漂泊，不远处相信有你的幸福！
二、越牛逼的人越谦虚， 越没本事的人越。 拼你想要的，争你没有的。 记住，可以哭，可以恨， 但是不可以不坚强， 你必须非常努力， 因为后面有一群人在等着看你的笑话，即便是躺着中枪，也要姿势漂亮！
三、人生就像买西瓜，未知才精彩。大胆尝试，不要畏畏缩缩，要是你尝了真甜，会觉得幸福和满足。要是不甜，你也是勇敢的。怕不甜就不买，你放弃的不是一次吃西瓜的机会，而是失去了自信。
四、时光残缺了曾经信望天空的真纯，美好的记忆在脑海中渐渐的被定格存储，那熟悉的景物，在岁月的河流中早已被洗刷的陌生了。残留在手掌里的余温，在物是人非的凄凉中，也已随着记忆慢慢的冷却了。
五、因为时间在一分一秒过去.所以,我们在祈求永恒.爱情、亲情、友情、青春、容貌、身体、荣耀……因为在生命的底层里,我们的这一切终究会过去.所以我们才会卑微的牵起爱人的手.并且深深相信这一份平庸,正是抵抗老去,死亡及消失的力量.
六、不将烦恼是非带上床，不把忧悲苦恼带到明天，就是居家修行的不二法门。
七、热情是迎接生活最好也最有用的方式，热情可以摧毁偏执与敌意，摒弃懒惰，消磨软弱，扫除障碍。让我们的心灵明亮。也许我们可以把热情当作一种信仰，有了这种信仰的存在、我们会坚韧很多。会使抗打击力强太多。不必抱怨，也无需哀叹。活着就是生活赐给我们最宝贵的。
八、所有的付出是否值得，只否只留下难言的伤痛，是否注定了一切最终只是海市蜃楼的幻影，镜中花水中月的虚浮，为何还要痴迷不醒？因你，体验了更多的爱恨情愁；因你，泪已流得太多太多；因你，伤悲也成了一种习惯，是否因前世欠了你的债，要用我今生的苦来还？
九、时间很短，天涯很远。往后的一山一水，一朝一夕，自己安静地走完。倘若不慎走失迷途，跌入水中，也应记得，有一条河流，叫重生。这世上，任何地方，都可以生长；任何去处，都是归宿。那么，别来找我，我亦不去寻你。守着剩下的流年，看一段岁月静好，现世安稳。
十、当你的女友需要加班到很晚，为她准备一个点心盒，里面放置她喜欢的食物。比如巧克力饼干小玩具熊等。在盒盖上写上米歇尔的深夜急救箱，然后在字下面画一个大大的红十字图案。
十一、人生，山暖，水暖，当我们相遇那份暖意，便是一生的欣喜。或许，人生有太多的东西不能拥有，但是，只要我们心存希望，美好就在前方……其实，最美的邂逅不是在路上，而是在心里……
十二、人生，总是写满了走来与离开，错过不是过错，既已错过，干脆放过。人应如树，站着是一道美丽的风景，倒了是一个优质的栋梁；人应如水，深水沉静悠然，浅水喧哗自满。山不在高，有仙则名；水不在深，有龙则灵。
十三、时光飞逝，日月转换，是不是一定要历经尘世沧桑，看透人间变幻，百转千回后，才会明白，所有的遇见都将成为昨日的风景，那些惊鸿一瞥的记忆，不管多么绮丽绚烂，终将渐行渐远，在深深的回眸中化作一帘水墨烟云。
十四、吾人 不知道自己拥有无尽的宝藏，不求诸己，但求诸人，希求别人的关爱，别人的提携，稍有不能满足所求，即灰心失望。一个没有力量的人，怎能担负责任？一个经常 流泪的人，怎么把欢喜给人？儒家说：“不患无位，患所以不立。”只要自己条件具备，不求而有。观音菩萨手拿念珠，称念自己名号，不就是说明这个意思吗？
十五、走错了路，要记得回头；爱错了人，要懂得放手。人心都是相对的，以真换真；感情都是相互的，用心暖心。只是一起走过一段路而已，何必把怀念弄的比经过还长。
十六、你是被奴役的土地的儿女，你是爱情的天使，你是异想天开的精灵，你是诚实的孩童，你是经验丰富的老者，你是富上有头脑的男子，你是心地善良的女性，你是满怀希望的巨人，你是饱经忧患的母亲，你是充满幻想的诗人。
十七、人类最大的弱点在于没有用智慧面对现实，因此追求外在的相，举凡虚名、虚利、虚荣、虚位……统统追求。只要有利可图、有名可沾、有势可仗、有权可争、有位可占，他们一定不遗余力去争取。当他们实力不够、德望不足，用正常手法得不着时，就使出歪手段，因此，烦恼的现象就出现了。
十八、时过境迁，几年光阴如白驹过隙，闲庭信步，唯留下我缠绵悱恻的痛苦的回忆。你走的出我的视线，却永远走不出我对你的思念，那撕破的歌喉，正在对你无声的呼唤着……
十九、不妄求是知足的生命，不投机是本份的性格，不计谋是诚实的做人，不自私是净化的身心。
二十、如果我们可以想得少一点，如果我们想到什么就去尝试一下，或许人生不会因此而变得格外圆满，但至少能够少一点点遗憾！
二十一、也许有些人很可恶，有些人很卑鄙。而当我设身为他想象的时候，我才知道：他比我还可怜。所以请原谅所有你见过的人——好人或者坏人。
二十二、生命中的很多事情，总是在走过一段路后，才会清晰明了……人生，总是要经历过坎坷，挫折，欺骗，伤害后才会明了许多事，看清一些人，或许以后会遇到更好的，但已经没有了当初的奋不顾身。
二十三、你下的决心足够坚定，才会不动声色。每次高调地宣誓与喋喋不休地强调，都只是虚张声势。真正要放弃一个人，要开始一段新的旅程，都是沉默得有些隐忍，刻骨的感受会让你什么都不想说，不想让人知道，不想听任何人的应和。
二十四、 心中要有根，才能开花结果；心中要有愿，才能成就事业；心中要有理，才能走遍天下；心中要有主，才能立处皆真；心中要有德，才能涵容万物；心中要有道，才能拥有一切。
二十五、你无法决定明天是晴是雨，爱你的人是否还能留在身边，你此刻的坚持能换来什么，但你能决定今天有没有准备好雨伞，有没有好好爱人以及是否足够努力。永远不要只看见前方路途遥远而忘了自己坚持多久才走到这里。今天尽力做的，虽然辛苦，但未来发生的，都是礼物。
二十六、世界上最残忍的事，不是没遇到爱的人，而是遇到却最终错过；世界上最伤心的事，不是你爱的人不爱你，而是他爱过你后，最后却不爱你。
二十七、世界上有一个人是永远等着你的，不管是什么时候，不管你是在什么地方，反正你知道，总有这样一个人。
二十八、爱情这件事，勉强不了，住不进你心里的人就放他走，你走不进的世界提前先掉头。聪明如你，但傻就傻在习惯欺骗自己，承诺了不该给的承诺，坚持了没必要的坚持。
二十九、爱上一个人并不可怕，怕的是一发不可收拾；分手并不可怕，怕的是一直还放不下；孤单并不可怕，怕的是一直孤单；生病并不可怕，怕的是一病不起；失业并不可怕，怕的是一直不去找工作；没钱并不可怕，怕的是一直要等人来救济；输了并不可怕，怕的是一败涂地；错了并不可怕，怕的是一错再错。
三十、在追逐自己梦想的路上，从来没有一帆风顺，没有一蹴而就，甚至还很枯燥。但没有拼搏过的人生终究苍白，没有繁华过的平淡终究浅薄。很多人，都是在熬过很多年之后，才有资格获得自己喜欢的生活。
三十一、如果心不安，很容易就被环境牵动，一旦环境里产生变动，或者因他人的一句话、一个动作，甚至是媒体上的一个讯息，自己的心马上就跟着起伏；起初是心不安，接着影响生活不安，最后连生命也不安稳了。
三十二、当失败再一次对我拳打脚踢，当我再一次被打击得遍体鳞伤，当曾以为可以天长地久的友谊突然又夹杂了背叛，当一切的一切向我席卷而来时，干了溢出眼角的泪，拍拍身上的尘土，告诉自己我不能认输。
适合发朋友圈的励志说说 励志语录大全1、不后悔，莫过于做好三件事：一是知道如何选择；二是明白如何坚持；三是懂得如何珍惜。
2、今天做别人不愿做的事，明天就能做别人做不到的事。
3、命运的转折是从当下的这一秒开始的，而最可怕的一种局面是，怀念过去，幻想未来，虚度现在。
4、时间告诉你什么叫衰老，回忆告诉你什么叫幼稚。不要总在过去的回忆里缠绵，昨天的太阳，晒不干今天的衣裳。
5、牢记着雨滴献身的叮嘱，增强了冒尖的勇气。
6、若无其事，原来是最好的报复。何必向不值得的人证明什么，生活得更好，是为了自己。
7、决定命运的并不是天上掉下来的一个大大的机会，而是每一分钟里你做的一个微小的选择。所有的差别就只在那一分钟里。
8、如果刀刃怕伤了自己而不与磨刀石接触，就永远不会锋利。
9、不管你去往何方，不管将来迎接你的是什么，请你带着阳光般的心情启程。
10、喜欢跑步的人很多，但天天跑步的人不多，拥有梦想的人很多，但坚持梦想的人不多。
11、人生中最艰难的两场考验：等待时机到来的耐心，和面对一切际遇的勇气。
12、山路曲折盘旋，但毕竟朝着顶峰延伸。
13、我们总是把陌生人给的一些小恩小惠当做是大恩大德，却把身边那些死心塌地对你好的人当做理所当然。
14、其实根本就没有什么如，每个人的人生都不可重新设计。
15、因为没有，从不担心失去；因为想要，才会患得患失。
