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[00:05.57]Chapter One  Human Life Like a Poem
[00:09.07]I think that, from a biological standpoint,
[00:13.89]human life almost reads like a poem.
[00:16.95]It has its own rhythm and beat,
[00:20.12]its internal cycles of growth and decay.
[00:23.08]No one can say that a life with childhood,
[00:26.69]manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;
[00:30.41]the day has its morning, noon and sunset,
[00:34.35]and the year has its seasons, and it is good
[00:37.63]that it is so. There is no good or bad in life,
[00:41.90]except what is good according to its own season.
[00:45.40]And if we take this biological view of life
[00:49.12]and try to live according to the seasons,
[00:52.51]no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist
[00:56.34]can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.
[01:01.59]　　！！Lin Yutang

[01:12.53]We Are on a Journey
[01:14.39]By Henry Van Dyke
[01:16.38]Wherever you are, and whoever you may be,
[01:20.30]there is one thing in which you and I are
[01:23.14]just alike,at this moment, and in all the moments
[01:27.19]of our existence.We are not at rest;
[01:30.03]we are on a journey. Our life is not a mere fact;
[01:34.63]it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,
[01:38.24]ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
[01:41.63]We are gaining something, or losing something, every day.
[01:45.02]Even when our position and our character seem to
[01:49.07]remain precisely the same, they are changing.
[01:52.46]For the mere advance of time is a change.
[01:55.41]It is not the same thing to have a bare field
[01:58.37]in January and in July. The season makes the difference.
[02:02.42]The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish
[02:06.90]in the man.Everything that we do is a step
[02:10.95]in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something
[02:15.65]is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward.
[02:20.70]The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is
[02:24.85]just as real as the action of the positive pole.
[02:27.80]To decline is to accept ！ the other alternative.
[02:31.74]Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday?
[02:35.79]Yes, ！ you must be a little nearer to some port or other;
[02:39.83]for since your ship was first launched upon
[02:42.79]the sea of life you have never been still
[02:45.08]for a single moment; the sea is too deep,
[02:48.04]you could not find an anchorage if you would;
[02:51.32]there can be no pause until you come into port.