You asked me what kind of standard a young person should choose and the basis for making an effort to study. No matter what kind of career a person will do in the future, I think he needs four conditions.
The first is the physique of an athlete.
The second is the mind of a scientist.
The third is the zeal of religious people.
Finally, there is the artist's mind.
——Zhu Guangqian, "Twelve Letters to Youth"
Marx once said, "The spirit of an era is the spirit of youth representatives." Chen Duxiu once wrote, "Youth is like the early spring, like the sun, like the budding of the hundred flowers, like the new hair of the sharp blade, and the most precious period of life." ”
Today's Youth Day, yesterday Mo Yan shared a reference book that accompanied him through the difficult moments of his life in a letter to a young friend: "Xinhua Dictionary". It was the Xinhua Dictionary that laid the foundation for him to pick up a pen and write novels. Xiaobian today shares 12 letters and 12 books to young people to read and accompany youth.
1. Greet every day peacefully and live every day well
I am a hundred years old this year, I have reached the edge of life, I can't know for sure how far I can go, life expectancy is involuntary, but I know very well that I am about to "go home". I have to wash away the filth of this hundred years and go home. I don't have the feeling of "climbing Mount Taishan and living a small world", and I only live a peaceful life in my own small world. Thinking about it so much, my heart is as calm as water, and I should greet every day peacefully and live every day well.
People have excellent qualities, and there are many inferior roots mixed together, just like a piece of stubborn iron is burned in fire, quenched in water, again and again, again and again, and burned and quenched, and then added thousands of hammers and hammers, in order to smelt stubborn iron into steel that can be forged into a sword. Gold also needs to be smelted to remove impurities before it becomes pure gold. The same is true of man, who learn wisdom from sorrow and refine virtue from suffering.
If you want to train a person who can do great things, you must make him suffer and suffer, and he must not be satisfied, in order to develop a stoic character. After a person has undergone different degrees of exercise, he will obtain different degrees of cultivation and different degrees of benefits. Like spices, the more crushed they are, the finer they are ground, the more intense the fragrance. This is the truth we see from our life experience.
- "Walk to the Edge of Life"
2. Read more classics when you are young
In just three or four years of precious college time, instead of reading many "excerpts" or generalizations and looking at various "nice" lectures, it is really better to read through one or twenty classics.
Reading the classics requires the process of understanding, thinking, and nurturing, which is the necessary way for "nourishment", that is, spiritual growth.
Whether it is online reading or paper book reading, we must first pay attention to arranging classic reading. Classics are precipitated through historical screening and are the crystallization of human wisdom. Reading more classics when you are young can lay the foundation for spiritual growth.
In the rapidly changing, full of opportunities and temptations of the information age, reading classics can develop good reading habits and reading tastes, can "nourish sex", can also develop a benign lifestyle, is to lay the foundation for a lifetime.
——" Wen Rumin on Reading"
3. Why do we need friends?
The essence of friendship is equality. Friendship must never turn into unequal power and gifts, because inequality is the essence of asylum relationships. Once this is done, the friendship is destroyed. In addition, mutual liking, sharing common interests, and being able to share feelings and thoughts are also fundamental to friendship.
Friends must not be manipulators and calculating people. Friendship adheres to a core moral code: "Treat others the way you treat others, when you take the Si people as the crane, don't take the Si people to the crane." If you feel like a friend is "using" you, the friendship ends. Friendship cannot be bought and sold, just as true love and beauty cannot be bought and sold.
Strangely enough, the best form of communication with friends is often silence. Friendship is not about what is said, but more importantly about not saying anything. When "messages" don't need to be delivered in words, true friendship manifests itself. What friendship pursues is to achieve the meaning of "between the lines", and everything is in the unspoken.
- "Letter to Lily – About the Way of the World"
4. Only love can make a person indispensable
Obviously, in the world, only love can make a person indispensable. What makes a person happy can at the same time become the source of his suffering.
To tell you methodically about knowing this loveliest man will be difficult for me.
An angel! - Yes! Everyone calls their sweetheart that, doesn't they? But I can't tell you how perfect she is, why; in a word, she completely captured my heart.
So intelligent, but so simple; so resolute, but so kind; so diligent, but so quiet...
All I said was nonsense, empty and unsatisfactory, and did not reflect her true face in the slightest.
- "The Troubles of Young Werther"
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5. Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are wise
Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are wise.
The winner is strong, and the self-victor is strong.
The contented are rich.
The enforcer has ambitions.
Don't lose it for a long time.
The dead do not die.
Translation:
It is "wisdom" who knows others, and only those who know themselves are "wise".
What overcomes others is strength, and only those who overcome oneself are strong.
Knowing that to be satisfied is to be rich.
To work hard is to have ambition.
Those who do not lose their roots can last a long time.
It is the long life that is immortalized.
- "Lao Tzu's Notes on the Present"