born_to_win 生而为赢（重排适合打印版）.doc

Born to Win New Oriental Contents 1 Youth 2 2 Three Days to See (Excerpts) 2 3 Companionship of Books (Excerpts) 3 4 If I Rest, I Rust 4 5 Ambition 4 6 What I have Lived for 5 7 When Love Reckons You 6 8 The Road to Success 7 9 On Meeting the Celebrated 7 10 The 50-Percent Theory of Life 8 11 What is Your Recovery Rate? 9 12 Clear Your Mental Space 10 13 Be Happy! 11 14 The Goodness of Life 11 15 Facing the Enemies Within 12 16 Abundance is a Life Style 13 17 Human Life a Poem 14 18 Solitude 15 19 Give Life Meaning 16 20 Relish the Moment 17 21 The Love of Beauty 17 22 The Happy Door 18 23 Born to Win 19 24 Work and Pleasure 19 25 Mirror, Mirror -- What Do I See? 20 26 On Motes and Beams 21 27 An October Sunrise 22 28 To Be or Not to Be 22 29 Gettysburg Address 23 30 First Inaugural Address (Excerpts) 23  Youth Samuel Ullman Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of whats next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pes