1、What I Have Lived For

Bertrand Russell

Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my

life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable

pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds,

have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep

ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy

so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few

hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves

loneliness --- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering

consciousness looks over the rim of the world into cold unfathomable

lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of

love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of

the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I

sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is

what --- at last --- I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to

understand the hearts of men, I have wished to know why the stars

shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which

number holds away above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I

have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward

toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes

of cries of pain reverberated in my heart. Children in famine,

victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden

to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain

make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the

evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and I would

gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.

我为何而活 伯兰特.罗素

三种简单却极其强烈的情感主宰着我的生活：对爱的渴望、对知识的追求、对人类痛苦的难以承受的怜悯之心。这三种情感，像一阵阵飓风一样，任意地将我吹的飘来荡去，越过痛苦的海洋，抵达绝望的彼岸。

我寻找爱，首先，因为它令人心醉神迷，这种沉醉是如此美妙，以至于我愿意用余生来换取那几个小时的快乐。我寻找爱，其次是因为它会减轻孤独，置身于那种可怕的孤独中，颤抖的灵魂在世界的边缘，看到冰冷的、死寂的、无底深渊。我寻找爱，还因为在爱水乳交融时，在一个神秘的缩影中，我见到了先贤和诗人们所想象的、预览的天堂。

这就是我所追求的，尽管对于凡人来说，这好像是一种奢望。但这是我最终找到的。

我曾以同样的热情来追求知识。我希望能理解人类的心灵，希望能知道为什么星星会发光。我也曾经努力理解毕达哥拉斯学派的理论，他们认为数字主载着万物的此消彼长。我了解了一点知识，但是不多。

爱和知识，可以最大可能地，将人带入天堂。可是，怜悯总是将我带回地面。人们因痛苦而发出的哭声在我心中久久回响，那些饥荒中的孩子们，被压迫者摧残的受害者们，被子女视为可憎负担的、无助的老人们，以及那无处不在的孤单、贫穷和无助都在讽刺着人类所本应该有的生活。我渴望能够消除人世间的邪恶，可是力不从心，我自己也同样遭受着它们的折磨。

这就是我的生活。我觉得活一场是值得的。如果给我机会的话，我愿意开心地，再活一次。

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伯兰特.罗素（1872-1970）,英国著名哲学家、数学家和文学家。他在多个领域都取得了巨大成就。他所著的《西方的智慧》、《西方哲学史》对中国读者影响很大。

2、Man Is Here For The Sake of Other Men

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a

short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a

purpose.

From the standpoint of daily life, however,there is one thing we

do know that man is here for the sake of other men --- above all for

those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and

also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are

connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much

my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow

men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in

order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind

is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too

heavily from the work of other men.

To ponder interminably over the reason for one’s own existence or

the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point

of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by

which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which

have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are

goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness

has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis

would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

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人是为了别人而活着 阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦

我们在这个世界上的处境是奇怪的：每个人，都是来做一次短暂的访问，不知道是为了什么。不过有时似乎也会觉察到有某种目的。

但是从平日的生活来看，有一件事情我们是很清楚的：我们是为别人而活，最重要的是为了这些人活：他们的笑容和幸福构成了我们快乐的源泉。同时，我们活着还为了另外无数个不相识的生命，怜悯之心，将我们同他们的命运联系起来。每天，很多次，我都会意识到我的肉体生活和精神生活很大程度上是建立在那些活着的，和死去的人们的工作之上的，意识到我必须诚挚地、竭尽全力地努力去回报我所得到的东西。我经常心绪不宁，感觉自己从别人的工作里承袭了太多，这种感觉让我惴惴不安。

总体上在我看来，从客观的角度，没完没了地思考自己为什么会存在，或者是生命有什么意义，是非常愚蠢的行为。不过，每个人都有一些理想，来指引着自己的抱负和辨别是非。始终在我面前闪耀着光芒，并且让我充满活着的喜悦的理想，是善、美和真理。对我来说，以舒适和享乐为目标的生活从来没有吸引力。 以这些目标为基础建立起来的一套伦理观点只能满足一群牲畜的需要。

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阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦（1879-1955）,美国籍犹太人，20世纪最伟大的科学家。19xx年获诺贝尔物理学奖。他一生崇尚科学与民主，追求真理和光明，毕生致力于国际和平事业。

3、Work and Pleasure

Winston Churchill

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two

or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting

an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend. It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours

when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

第二篇：优质护理散文

最是心中的那片柔软

天使坠落人间，化为一身洁白的圣衣，为在疾病中挣扎的人们劳苦一生，但是看到那一张张荡漾开来的笑脸，于是落泪了——题记

20xx年伊始，全国范围内“优质服务示范病房”正如火如荼的展开， 科室里热闹非凡，人声鼎沸。“要我去给病人洗脚，我可不干，我连爸妈都没给洗过呢！”“就是，读了十几年书就混一保姆了，真郁闷···”小姑娘一个个嘟囔着个嘴巴。“我也理解你们的难处，但是这是整个护理趋势的发展。”这时护士长发话了，“虽然你们有不情愿，但是既然选择了护士这个职业，就应该尊重这个职业，你们想想怎样才能真正体现人性化服务？”伴随着一连串问号，“优质服务示范病房”紧锣密鼓地展开了。

“你贴高点，高点····对，对，恩，我觉得这个花摆那比较好看····”夜了，换下白衣，一群女孩尽显活泼本色，在病区内张罗着。爱漂亮是女孩子天性么，这不，不一会，墙不再是那堵冷冰冰的墙，墙上已然爬上了多彩的小花小草。桌子亦不是那古板的四方桌，一盆春意盎然的小花让整个医生办公室都着了春色。

“周老师，那个免洗洗发露用完了，我下午要帮2-3洗个头，能帮我领一瓶吗？”“好嘞！”“现在的医院真当好啊，以为住了院不能洗头，本来还想乘早剃个光头哪，还好没干这傻事哈哈哈哈···”病房里一片笑声。

“小马，你管病房管了几天了，你说说5-1的情况。”“恩，好的，XX是垂体瘤术后病人，现在····”看着口若悬河的小马老师，大家都不禁暗暗佩服起这位刚返回病房的新妈妈。“主要是现在管的病人人数少，这样就可以更好的管住自己的病人·····”面对大家的夸奖，马老师如是说，谦虚的涨红了脸。

“护士长，你们南方的女孩真是温柔，在我们北方医院真是绝对见不到的啊。这里的小护士整天满脸笑容看着真让人窝心，看着就喜欢啊····”听到这位北方阿姨直剌剌的夸奖，所有的疲劳，所有的委屈顿时化为乌有。

作为一名护士到真的苦真的累，这种苦与累只有自己真正经历过才能体会。但是无论多么疲惫，一声“你们护士辛苦了····”心中那片柔软的地方就这样被触碰了，·融化开去····一切都消散了，有的只是仿佛大力水手吃了菠菜。充满

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