Honesty never suffers

A farmer dropped his axe into the river, and he sat by the river and cried sadly. The God of Wealth jumped into the water to help him salvage it, and soon took out a golden axe, but the farmer shook his head and said, "It's not mine." The God of Wealth brought out another silver axe, but the worker shook his head. Finally, he took out an iron axe, and the farmer said, "This is the axe I lost." The god of wealth gave him the gold axe along with the silver axe.

A greedy guy found out, and he deliberately threw an ax into the river. Soon, the God of Wealth brought out a golden axe, and before the God of Wealth could ask him, he immediately said, "This is the one I lost." The God of Wealth was disgusted with his dishonesty and disappeared with the golden axe. The man couldn't even find his axe in the end.

Many people think that deception and lying is a beneficial behavior, and they think that the means of deception are well worth using. Therefore, many stores with good reputations often have to cover up the shortcomings of their products and publish various advertisements that deceive customers. Some even think that in business activities, deception is as necessary as capital.

They don't understand that they lose their honesty at the same time as they gain an extra penny. They may have a gain in their purse, but in the end they will lose even more!

Moreover, there are many people in the world who will realize in the future that deception is unreliable and will fail! So from the point of view of fulfilling wishes, honesty is also the best strategy! If you look at the history of business, you can see that the big stores of 50 years ago are almost as few as the morning stars that still exist today.

The big shops that sprung up like mushrooms at that time, competing to publish all kinds of deceptive advertisements and all kinds of deceptive propaganda, were really prosperous, but they also did not last long, because they lacked honest backing. They are unreliable after all, and if they succeed in a moment, they will soon be revealed. In the end, they will be neglected, decayed, and failed.

There is no advertisement in the world that is more favored by others than the reputation of honesty.

Fraudsters are degenerates! Because of dishonesty, such people cannot get along with others for a long time, let alone achieve their wishes for happiness and success.

Isn't it a tragedy that some young people, in order to make some petty profits, squandered their personality and reputation like betting on horses in a racecourse?

Honesty is a virtue in life, and although honest people are sometimes ridiculed, they are eventually rewarded like a farmer whose axe fell into a river.

Treat people with integrity. It is not false beauty, it is not evil, there is one one, and two is two. Zhang Zhibai, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, recommended the young Yan Shu to the imperial court. The imperial court summoned Yan Shu to the palace, and it coincided with the palace examination of Emperor Zhenzong, so he ordered Yan Shu to take the exam. After Yan Shu saw the test questions, he said: "I have already written this poem 10 days ago, please ask the emperor to come up with another test question." "His honesty won the affection of the true sect. After that, Yan Shu took up the position of the museum. One day, there was a shortage of officials in the prince's East Palace, and Yan Shu was appointed by the inner court. The presiding officer did not know why. The next day, the emperor said to him: "Recently, I heard that there is no one in the pavilion who does not have pleasures, only Yan Shu and his brother are immersed in studying, so cautious and serious, they can serve as the officials of the East Palace."

Yan Shu accepted the appointment, and the emperor explained to him the reason for appointing him in person. After hearing this, Yan Shu said, "It's not that your subordinates don't like to have fun and play, it's just that you can't afford to play because of poverty." If your subordinates have money, they want to play. The emperor praised him for his honesty. During the time of Song Renzong, he finally became the prime minister.

Although some truths may cause unhappiness or misunderstanding on the other side, they will eventually be understood and won the trust of the other party.

Honesty is the magic weapon for dealing with people. Although you may pay a price for being honest with people, you will get much more than you pay in the future.

Honesty is the most precious treasure in the world, and it is a great sentiment that everyone should adhere to. Even if you admit your mistakes honestly and are punished severely, you should do so, because that's how you should be.

It turns out that I am also rich

There was a young man who always complained that he was unlucky, that he could not make a fortune, and that he was worried all day long. On this day, an old man with a white beard walked over and asked, "Young man, why aren't you happy?" ”

"I don't understand why I'm always so poor."

"Poor? You're rich! The old man said sincerely.

"Where does this start?" The young man asked.

The old man asked rhetorically: "If you cut off one of your fingers now and give you 1,000 yuan, will you do it?" ”

"No." The young man replied.

"If you cut off one of your hands and give you 10,000 yuan, will you do it?"

"No."

"If you are blinded and given 100,000 yuan, will you do it?"

"No."

"If you are immediately an 80-year-old man and give you 1 million, will you do it?"

"No."

"If you die immediately and give you 10 million, will you do it?"

"No."

"That's right, you already have a fortune of more than 10 million, why do you still lament that you are poor?" The old man asked with a smile.

The young man was stunned and speechless, and suddenly understood everything.

Dear friends, if you wake up in the morning to find that you can still breathe freely, you are more blessed than those who died during the week.

If you have never experienced the dangers of war, the loneliness of captivity, the pain of torture and the pain of starvation......

You're better than 500 million people in the world. If you were able to attend a religious gathering without fear of infiltration, arrest, torture or death, you would be happier than 3 billion people. If you have food in your fridge, enough clothes on you, and a house to live in, you're already richer than 70% of the world's population.

According to the United Nations World Food Day, 36 countries around the world are currently in the midst of a food crisis; There are still 800 million people in hunger, and food shortages are particularly acute in the Third World. In developing countries, two adults do not have access to adequate food, while on the African continent, one in three children is chronically malnourished. Every year, 6 million preschool-age children die of hunger worldwide!

If you have money in your bank account and cash in your wallet, you're already among the 8% of the richest people in the world! If your parents are still alive and not separated or divorced, you are one of the few who are in the group. If you can hold your head up, with a smile on your face, and a grateful heart, you're truly blessed – because most of the people in the world can do that, but they don't. If you can hold a person's hand, hug him, or just give him a pat on the shoulder...... You are blessed—because you have done what God can do.

If you can read this text, then you have a double blessing, and you are not much happier than the 2 billion people who can't read?

Seeing this, please put down the book for a while, and then say to yourself very seriously: "Wow! So I'm such a rich man! ”

Yes, think about it, what else is there for you not to be happy?

An American teacher once told his students something they will never forget.

"I was a man of many worries," he said, "but in the spring of 1934 I walked through the streets of Sidotti in Webb, and a sight swept away all my worries. It only happened for a dozen seconds, but in that moment, I learned more about the meaning of life than I had learned in the previous 10 years. During those two years, I opened a grocery store in Webb City, and due to poor management, not only did I spend all my savings, but I also went into debt, which I estimated would take seven years to repay. I had just closed my business on Saturday and was ready to take out a loan from Mercantile Mining Bank to get a job in Kansas City. I was like a defeated rooster, without confidence and fighting spirit. Suddenly, someone came up from the other side of the street. The man had no legs, and sat on a small wooden board with rollers attached to his skates, and walked forward with sticks in each hand. He crossed the aisle, slightly lifting the plank to the sidewalk. In those few seconds, our eyes met, and he smiled calmly and called out to me in good spirits: 'Good morning, sir, what a beautiful weather today!' I looked at him and suddenly realized how rich I was. I have two feet and can walk, why am I so self-pitying? This person can still be happy and confident without legs, what else can I, a person with sound limbs, not? I straightened my chest, I was going to borrow only 100 yuan from the "Commercial Mining Bank", but now I decided to borrow 200 yuan, I wanted to say that I wanted to find a job in Kansas City, but now I confidently declared: I went to Kansas City to find a job. As a result, I borrowed money and got a job.

"Now, I write the following passage on the mirror in the bathroom and read it every morning when I shave: I was depressed because I was missing a pair of shoes, until I was on the street and saw someone missing two legs."

There will always be all kinds of misfortunes in people's lives, but happy people do not keep these in their hearts, they have no worries. So, what is happiness? To be happy is to cherish what you have.

If you want to live happily, then learn to be content! Only contentment is the only way to seek happiness.

There is nothing in the world that is not earned for nothing

Once upon a time, there was a king who loved his people like a son, and under his wise leadership, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The far-sighted king, fearing that the people would be happy when he died, summoned the people of the country and ordered them to find an eternal law that would ensure the happiness of the people.

A month later, the three scholars presented the king with three silk books six inches thick, saying: "Your Majesty, the knowledge of the world is gathered in these three books, and as long as the people read them, they will be sure that their lives will be worry-free." The king disagreed, because he didn't think the people would spend so much time reading. So he ordered these scholars to continue their studies. Within two months, the scholars had simplified three books into one. The king was still not satisfied. A month later, the scholars presented a piece of paper to the king. When the king saw this, he was very satisfied, and said, "Very well, as long as my people are truly able to practice this precious wisdom in the future, I believe that they will be able to live a prosperous and happy life." After saying that, he rewarded the scholars heavily. It turned out that there was only one sentence written on this piece of paper: There is nothing in the world that is not earned for nothing.

Most people want to develop quickly, but they don't understand that everything must be done honestly and hard to achieve something. As long as you still have a little bit of cunning and luck, it's hard for you to give it your all. Don't dream of winning the lottery or spending your time at the table. These dreams that developed overnight are all stumbling blocks to people's efforts.

Ever since it was rumored that someone had stumbled upon gold while walking along the banks of the Savin River, there had been a frequenting of gold prospectors from far and wide. They all wanted to be rich, so they searched the entire riverbed and dug many large holes in the riverbed in the hope of finding more gold with it. It is true that some people have found it, but many more have found nothing and have to go home.

There are also those who are unwilling to be disappointed, so they are stationed here and continue to search. Peter Fret is one of them. He bought a piece of land near the riverbed that no one wanted, and worked silently alone. In order to find gold, he had staked all his money in this land. He toiled for months, until the land was pitted, and he was disappointed—he had searched the whole land, but he had not seen a speck of gold. Six months later, he didn't even have the money to buy bread. So he was ready to leave here and make a living elsewhere.

The night before he was about to leave, it was pouring rain, and it lasted three days and three nights. When the rain finally stopped, Peter came out of the hut and found that the ground before him looked different than before: the potholes had been smoothed out by the water, and a layer of green grass had grown on the soft earth.

"No gold has been found here," Peter said with a sudden realization, "but the land is so fertile that I can grow flowers and sell them to the rich people in the town." They will definitely buy some flowers to decorate their homes. If that's the case, then I'm going to make a lot of money, and I'm going to be rich one day......"

As if he saw the future, Peter said beautifully, "Yes, if you don't leave, I'll plant flowers!" ”

So, he stayed. Peter spent a lot of effort cultivating the seedlings, and soon the fields were full of beautiful and delicate flowers.

He took it to the town and sold it, and the rich people praised it vigorously: "Look, what a beautiful flower, we have never seen such a beautiful flower!" "They were happy to pay a small amount of money for Peter's flowers in order to make their home more palatial.

Five years later, Peter finally achieved his dream of becoming a rich man.

Only hard work can collect real "gold", and it is more important to use your labor to get what you want than to imagine what you want to get.

The idea that laziness is a kind of happiness and that hard work is a punishment is a wonderful mistake and a harmful mistake. For those who are fed and have nothing to do all day long, we must awaken them to the idea that the necessary condition for happiness in life is not laziness but hard work. One cannot do without labor.

The indisputable condition of happiness is labor, first of which must be free labor to be performed by oneself, and secondly of physical labor which increases our appetite and gives us deep sleep. Labor is what man wants, and when it is deprived, it causes suffering. But labor is not morality, and it is as strange to think of labor as merit or morality as it is to eat as merit or morality. In fact, labor alone is enough to bring us pleasure and satisfaction.

The harvest is big, and even the hard work will become pleasant. Harvest can make people forget the unpleasant past and be confident in the future. Learning from failures, and thus gaining the most valuable experience, is also a kind of harvest of work, that is, labor. Without giving, there is no gain. The people who gain the most in the world are often the ones who give the most. Remember: there's nothing you get for nothing!

Push a stone up the hill

Because he broke the law in the heavenly court, Sizifu was punished by the great god and descended to the human world to suffer. The punishment for him was: pushing a stone up the mountain. Every day, Sizifer pushed the stone to the top of the mountain with great difficulty, and then the stone rolled down on its own, so Sizifer had to push the stone up the hill again. In this way, Sizifer is faced with a never-ending defeat. The Great God wants to punish Sizifer, that is, to torture his soul and make him suffer in "never-ending failure".

However, Sizifer refused to accept his fate. Every time, as he pushed the stone up the mountain, the great god struck him and told him that it was impossible to succeed. Unwilling to be trapped in the trap of success and failure, Sizifer thought: It is my duty to push the stone up the mountain; As long as I push the stone to the top of the mountain, my duty is fulfilled; As for whether the stone will roll down, that's not my business.

Further, when Sizifer pushed the stone up the hill with all his might, he seemed very calm in his heart, because he comforted himself: there will be a stone to push tomorrow, there will be no job tomorrow, and there will be hope tomorrow.

The great god was moved by Sizifer's unflinching and discouraged spirit, and let him go back to heaven.

The fate of Sizifer can explain many of the things that have happened to us in our lives, and Sizifer's efforts can also be a portrayal of our hard work, but can the way Sizifer can transform a seemingly bad fate into a mission can also be a model for our life?

It is not easy for an individual to be aware of his own existence and to identify with his own existence; It is not easy for individuals to see through their own destiny and control their own destiny. However, what is more difficult is to transform fate into a mission, because the meaning of the mission is more than the connotation of mythology, it is not only to seek a way out for its own existence, but also to create happiness and happiness for mankind and the world in the pain of failure.

Keep fighting until you reach your goal, so that your efforts will not be in vain. A person who insists on constantly practicing shooting will one day hit the target.

Li Yang joined the army after graduating from junior high school and served as an engineer in the army, where his job was to dig soil, dig tunnels, transport mortar, and build houses. But Li Yang understands that the potential treasure in himself has not yet been developed, that is, the film and television art and literary art that he has always loved.

In the eyes of the average person, these two kinds of work are simply incompatible. But Li Yang firmly believes that he has potential in this area and should work hard to unearth them. So he seized the time to work, read books and newspapers carefully, read many famous scripts, and tried to do some creation on his own. After being discharged from the army, Li Yang became an ordinary worker, but he still persevered in pursuing his goals. Not long after, the university resumed the entrance examination, and Li Yang was admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Beijing University of Technology and became a college student. From then on, he had more opportunities and tools to discover the treasures on his body. After being introduced by several friends, Li Yang participated in the translation and recording of several foreign films in just five years. With a vivid and imaginative voice style, this amateur participated in the dubbing of the Monkey King in "Journey to the West". At the beginning of 1986, he ushered in a glorious period in his career, the world-popular cartoon "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck" recruited Chinese voice actors, and Li Yang, who has a unique style, was suddenly selected by Disney Company to dub the cute and funny Donald Duck, and has become famous since then. Li Yang said that the reason why he succeeded was because he never stopped digging into his strengths.

The ruler is short, the inch is long, and everyone will have their own strengths - their own treasures. The key to open the door of the treasure is in your own hands, and if you give it up, these treasures will never see the light of day. Maybe you are not happy right now, but what you can never give up is the determination and fighting spirit to succeed, and more importantly, whether you can correctly realize what you are best at, although you have to stay in your current position for some reasons in reality, you must always try to find your treasure and work hard to mine it.

Successful people are not afraid of adversity. In the face of long-term difficulties, they either worked silently or waved their flags. With an indelible nerve and a fearless courage, they brace their spirits and work hard in an attempt to break through the cage of predicament as soon as possible. The eyes cannot see twice, the ears cannot hear twice, and the hands cannot do two things. Focus on what you want, and you'll be able to get it. If you are a person who lacks patience, cannot persevere, and does everything halfway, and asks others to clean up the mess for you, you should think carefully before you act, and do not rush to work, so as not to ride the tiger.

"Water drops wear stones, ropes sawed wood break", water and stone ratio, rope and wood ratio, hardness is obviously too far apart, but as long as you focus and do a good job, over time, the stone will be pierced by water droplets, and the wood will be sawed off by the rope. People do things like this, as long as they concentrate on doing one thing, they can do things more perfectly, or even perfectly.

Whoever can stay the course will win. People who persist in their efforts and never back down in the face of difficulties often find that the solution to the problem is not as difficult as we think.

Be the master of your own life

2011 was an extraordinary year for the 57-year-old cellist Yo-Yo Ma: New York City named a new road "Yo-Yo Ma Way", and President Barack Obama personally put on the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor for civilians!

Yo-Yo Ma's parents are both Chinese who graduated and studied in the United States, working as economic researchers in Huaer Street. From the moment Yo-Yo Ma was born, his parents designed a life route for Yo-Yo Ma: to be an excellent economic person! Before Yo-Yo Ma learned to speak, they had already begun to teach numbers, so the first words Yo-Yo Ma learned to speak was not "Mom and Dad", but "one, two, three, ......", and when he was two years old, his parents began to teach him arithmetic. Yo-Yo Ma mechanically finished his childhood in a kind of commissioned effort. When he was in elementary school, Yo-Yo Ma was the school's "math star" and won the grand prize in many math competitions, and Yo-Yo Ma's parents, teachers and classmates were happy for him, but Yo-Yo Ma himself felt that it was not fun at all.

One evening, the weather was not very good, Yo-Yo Ma was afraid of being drenched in the rain on the way from school, so he ran home from a very quiet path, outside the courtyard of an old house, he heard a very beautiful music, the beautiful melody like flowing water quickly attracted Yo-Yo Ma. He stopped and looked into the courtyard, only to see an old man playing the cello, the old man was extremely intoxicated when he played the violin, his body swayed gently with the music, and the picture in front of him couldn't help but make Yo-Yo Ma sigh lightly: "It would be great if I could play such beautiful music!" At this moment, Yo-Yo Ma realized that what he really liked was not mathematics, but music!

Not long after, the old man found Yo-Yo Ma, he came over and invited Yo-Yo Ma into the courtyard, and after playing many beautiful tunes, he also told Yo-Yo Ma many touching stories about music, all of which made Yo-Yo Ma completely obsessed with music. At that time, the United States was full of all kinds of training classes, cram schools, and interest classes, and Yo-Yo Ma's parents put Yo-Yo Ma in a math training class, but Yo-Yo Ma was not interested here, he often "skipped school" and slipped to the old man to listen to music and learn to play the cello. As a result, it is not difficult to imagine that his math scores were declining, and soon, his parents also found out about these problems, so they called Yo-Yo Ma to his side and said: "The previous things, as long as you correct them, in the future, you must learn math by heart!" ”

"Why do you have to study math?" Yo-Yo Ma resisted, saying, "I don't like math!" ”

"Only by learning mathematics well can you be an excellent economist like us, or even better than us, and become a great mathematician!" Yo-Yo Ma's parents told him.

"Why do you have to go the same way as you? I think music is the thing that makes me happiest, and I think I can do what I love better, and I'll be happier that way! Yo-Yo Ma firmly stated his thoughts. He feels that his life path must be his own direction, and he must not let others manipulate him, even his parents.

Since then, Yo-Yo Ma has often gone to the old man to study music, and it was not long before his parents were finally impressed by his persistence and signed him up for a music training class. By the time he graduated from high school, Yo-Yo Ma won the first prize in the city's student concert in Manhattan and went to study at Harvard University. It was also during this time that his musical fame grew, and many important symphony orchestras and including the pianist Emmanuel ? Musical masters, including Aix, sent him invitations to play and perform with him.

In the years that followed, Yo-Yo Ma continued to explore and move forward on the road of music, and was invited by the White House to play music many times, and also won the "David Don Award" and "Grammy Award" many times, becoming an internationally famous music master! In 2006, Yo-Yo Ma was appointed Ambassador for Peace by the United Nations. On February 15, 2011, Yo-Yo Ma, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, and Warren Buffett received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which symbolizes the highest honor for civilians, from U.S. President Barack Obama.

That night, after wearing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Yo-Yo Ma said with great emotion: "There is only one master in my life, that is, ourselves, walking on the trajectory of life laid by ourselves, we must be the happiest and most successful!" ”

Either lonely or vulgar

Born in 1987, I am just 26 years old this year.

I've been working for five years, mixing in the sauce vat of society for five years, and being in this Shawshank prison for five years.

At the age of 26, he finally mustered up the courage to pick up a stone and, with the sound of thunder, smashed a hole in the prison's underground water pipe.

In the early morning of the day before yesterday, I finally received an email that made me look through the autumn water. At four o'clock in the morning, I heard the email push ringing on my mobile phone, opened the mailbox, and logged into the online application system with trembling hands, which turned out to be a doctoral admission notice from Georgia Tech. After more than three years of hard work, after receiving six rejection letters in a row, it finally came to fruition. At that moment, I understood Du Fu's "But seeing where his wife was worried, he was ecstatic with poems and books." Singing during the day must indulge in wine, and youth is a good companion to return home. ”

For more than 20 years since I was a child, I have been almost always following the rules. I also go to school when others go to school, I also take the college entrance examination when others take the college entrance examination, I also go to college when others go to college, and I work when others work. For various reasons, I came up with the idea of going out to study three years ago. It was the first time I decided for myself what path to take. This feeling is so strong that I feel like I have a little bit of an understanding of what the Buddhist story means by "vows."

The hardships along the way, it is estimated that it will be very hypocritical to say it. Everyone knows how difficult their path is, but since they have decided, they should go ahead. As Lao Luo said when he used to teach the GRE, "There is only one failure, and that is to give up halfway." Since then, I have been on a long journey of drawing at work and studying in my free time. In three years, I have done dozens of design projects, taken the GRE, TOEFL, and the first-class registered structural engineer professional exam, and completed the graduate application process. At this time, I realized how hard I used to be, and if I had worked so hard since I was 18 years old, why would I be where I am today?

But the past is in the past, and it can no longer be changed. Teacher Wang Xiaobo said, "All human suffering is essentially anger at one's own incompetence." I am exactly like this, but I can only "stop falling in love, turn back from the bitter sea, and realize Lan Yin early". Nothing in the past can be changed. I can only do my best to change the future that I can.

Low undergraduate grades, no laboratory experience, no scientific research experience, no published papers, no overseas exchange experience, these are my past. TOEFL three perfect scores, a total score of 114, a full GRE math score of 326, the youngest first-level registration structure in China, and the admission of doctoral students at Georgia Tech, these are my now. My future is still ahead of the road.

Of course, there are many things that cannot be forced, and I don't agree with many inspirational stories about giving up their family and breaking up with their boyfriend/girlfriend. For me, love and family are the most important things and the motivation for me to do all these things. I'm definitely not putting the cart before the horse. It can't be said that it was done well, but at least it was not neglected. From my first love in high school to today's marriage, becoming each other's spiritual companions, I think this is my greatest achievement, even better than the success of my study abroad application.

A lot of people don't understand me, why go out and study? There is a note of certificate, there are nearly five years of work experience in the first grade, and there are still many good jobs. However, I don't want a life where I can see the head at a glance. As Maugham said in "Blade", "You know, I have an opinion that I can do more in my life, and I can't just sell stocks." I also feel that I can do a lot of things in this life, I can go to see the world, I can "shake my arms".

The first few months of my 26-year-old were pretty much the hardest I've had so far. The rejection of the letter every once in a while made my heart almost cold. My wife is about to start applying for a postdoc, but I haven't had a result here, what schools did she apply for? If I don't get the result, should I go to the study first? Is it too big to go and apply again? These questions were so muffled in my mind that I almost had a nervous breakdown. Luckily, I finally received my acceptance, and my hard work paid off. The water pipes of Shawshank Prison have been smashed open, but instead of light, there is a darker sewer ahead. Andy Dufre, crawling through the foul-smelling sewers, finally saw his sight in the pouring rain. The road ahead may be even more difficult for me. But what I have to do is to persevere, no matter how hard it is. Take good care of my family, cherish this opportunity, complete the long journey of doctoral students, and truly achieve success in my studies.

I always feel lonely, and when I see many people in the study abroad forum excitedly discussing which universities to recruit from CDB and the Ministry of Construction, I feel extremely lonely. But as Schopenhauer said, "Either solitude or vulgarity". I don't think about other people's worldly feelings, I only seek inner and spiritual satisfaction. That's what I thought at the age of 26.

As Maugham wrote, "Maybe it's not practical, but on the other hand it may be practical." All in all, very interesting. You can't imagine how exciting it is to read the original Odyssey in its original language. It's as if you just stand on tiptoe and stretch out your hand, and the stars in the sky can touch."

I'm going to touch the stars, even if it's thorny on the way.

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