晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 97 The Folly of Anxiety

[00:00.22]Passage　97 The Folly of Anxiety

[00:05.80]Half the people on our streets look as though life was a sorry business.

[00:11.81]It is hard to find a happy looking man or woman.

[00:14.98]Worry is the cause of their woebegone appearance.

[00:19.36]Worry makes the wrinkles; worry cuts the deep, down-glancing lines on the face;

[00:27.35]worry is the worst disease of our modern times.

[00:31.84]Care is contagious; it is hard work being cheerful at a funeral,

[00:38.18]and it is a good deal harder to keep the frown from your face

[00:43.10]when you are in the throng of the worry worn ones.

[00:46.71]Yet, we have no right to be dispensers of gloom;

[00:51.42]no matter how heavy our loads may seem to be we have no right to throw their burden on others

[01:00.50]nor even to cast the shadow of them on other hearts.

[01:04.98]Anxiety is instability. Fret steals away force.

[01:11.55]He who dreads tomorrow trembles today.

[01:15.71]Worry is weakness.

[01:18.67]The successful men may be always wide-awake, but they never worry.

[01:24.46]Fret and fear are like fine sand, thrown into life's delicate mechanism;

[01:32.01]they cause more than half the friction; they steal half the power.

[01:37.92]Cheer is strength.

[01:40.32]Nothing is so well done as that which is done heartily,

[01:45.47]and nothing is so heartily done as that which is done happily.

[01:50.50]Be happy, is an injunction not impossible of fulfillment.

[01:56.63]Pleasure may be an accident; but happiness comes in definite ways.

[02:02.53]It is the casting out of our foolish fears that we may have room for a few of our common joys.

[02:10.41]It is the telling our worries to wait until we get through appreciating our blessings.

[02:17.08]Take a deep breath, raise your chest, lift your eyes from the ground,

[02:23.11]look up and think how many things you have for which to be grateful,

[02:28.79]and you will find a smile growing where one may long have been unknown.

[02:34.17]Take the right kind of thought—for to take no thought would be sin—but take the calm,

[02:42.58]unanxious thought of your business, your duties, your difficulties,

[02:47.83]your disappointments and all the things that once have caused you fear,

[02:53.08]and you will find yourself laughing at most of them.