爸爸的影视造型剧情介绍: 第5章 人性的弱点
Man Is the Causer of His Circumstances
詹姆斯 · 艾伦 / James Allen
Practicing for Better Learning
First listen and then answer the questions.
1. What is the meaning of"fighting against circumstances?"
2. What are the three cases the author has mentioned in the passage?What is their life like?
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean. The“divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves; it is our very self. Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of fate—they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of freedom—they liberate, being noble. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.
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