First of all, celebrity quotes

1, give it a peach and return it a plum. -"The Book of Songs and Elegance"

2, courtesy, not coming is indecent; It is also impolite to come and not go.

-Book of Rites

3, the grace of being dripped by people, when the spring comes. -Proverbs

4. Life is a mirror. When you laugh, it smiles. You cry, and it cries.

-Thackeray, England

5. "Gratitude" is not necessarily gratitude for great kindness. Gratitude can be a life attitude and a moral sentiment that is good at discovering and appreciating beauty.

-Wen

6. I am a spring silkworm. After eating mulberry leaves, you have to spin silk. Even if I cook it in a pot, the filar silk will continue to die, in order to add some warmth to the world. -Ba Jin

Second, poetry

1, but every inch of grass has a few feelings, and it is rewarded with three spring rays. -Meng Jiao's Wandering Sons

2. Who knew the Chinese food on the plate was hard? -"Compassion for Farmers"

3, but whatever, I don't hesitate to take my own life. -Lu

4, my father gave birth to me, my mother bowed to me, licked me, raised me, took care of me, and went out into the abdomen. My father gave birth to me and my mother nursed me. Caress me, protect me, nurture me and educate me. Take care of me, miss me, go out and miss me. )

-"The Book of Songs Xiaoya"

Third, essays

1. 1620, some Puritans who were persecuted by religion took may flower to the New World of North America to seek religious freedom. After two months of tossing and turning at sea, they finally landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in the cold 1 1 month.

In the first winter, more than half of the immigrants died of hunger and infectious diseases.

Those who survived had a hard life. They began to sow in the first spring. In order to survive, they pray for God's blessing and eagerly look forward to a bumper harvest all summer, because they know that a bumper harvest in autumn determines their life and death.

Later, the crops finally got a bumper harvest. Everyone is very grateful for God's grace and decides to choose a day to commemorate it forever. This is the origin of American Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving Day is the most authentic national holiday in America. On this day, Americans of all faiths and backgrounds thank God for his kindness in the past year and sincerely pray that God will continue to bless them.

2. Someone said, "I hate my life and I have to make some changes." What these people want to change is their ungrateful hearts. If we don't know how to appreciate what I have, then it's hard for us to get more. Even if we get what we want, we won't really enjoy it.

Gratitude is a philosophy of life and great wisdom of life. Life in this world can't be smooth sailing. All kinds of failures and helplessness need us to face bravely and deal with them with an open mind. At this time, do you complain about life blindly and become depressed from now on? Or be grateful for life and get up after falling? British writer Thackeray said: "Life is a mirror. You laugh, and it laughs. " If you cry, it will cry. "Gratitude is a way of singing about life, which comes from love and hope for life.

3. Once upon a time, there was a Buddha who crossed the river by boat. He didn't want to make waves, so he overturned the boat. The Buddha floated in the river like a leaf for a long time before he climbed ashore exhausted. The first thing we did when we got to the shore was not to scold the boatman for his incompetence and make him lose everything he carried with him, nor to curse the dangerous waves that almost killed him, but to kneel on the beach and worship Master from a distance: "Thank you, Master!" Someone asked inexplicably, "Why not thank the Bodhisattva?" Buddha said, "I didn't like swimming. That's what Master taught me every time he forced me into the water. Not the master, I want to rest today! " When you are in trouble, instead of complaining, you are grateful. Life has reached such a transcendental state, and things have suddenly become clear. What else in this world can make you suffer and resent?

Idiom story: Mr. Dong Guo and the Wolf; Farmers and snakes; Bite the ring and knot the grass; Zhuge Liang did his best in the legacy of Huai Ju.

4. You saw a dog's cold and put warm cotton wool on it. After lying in cotton wool, it will look at you for a long time. It can't speak, and it can only express its gratitude in this way.

You see a bird hurt, take it out of the cat's mouth, treat its wound with medicine, give it food, and then put it back into the forest. It flies to the treetops and will come back to see you. It can't talk, so it can only remember your help in this way.

Animals with low intelligence still appreciate the help of others. Shouldn't human beings also have a grateful heart?

Dogs and birds will stare at you for a long time to thank you, but this moment will soon pass; They may forget you soon. But with this moment, the world is no longer the original world, grateful eyes disappeared, but gratitude scattered in the world, the world is warm and kind. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate this kind of feeling between people.

On one occasion, Kanmi, a Japanese geisha master, played an ancient hiker in a play. Just as he was about to go on stage, a pupil reminded him, "Master, your sandals are loose." He replied "thank you" and immediately squatted down to tie his shoelaces. When he reached the stage entrance where the protected person could not see, he squatted down again and loosened the shoelaces he had just tied. Obviously, he wants to show the fatigue of a long-distance traveler with loose sandals. A reporter went backstage to interview and saw this scene with his own eyes. He asked Kami, "Why don't you teach that student on the spot? He still doesn't understand the true meaning of acting. " Kami replied, "There are many opportunities to teach students acting skills. On today's occasion, the most important thing is to teach him to learn to appreciate the concern of others. "

6. An Italian female explorer crossed the Taklimakan Desert alone. When she walked out of the desert, she knelt down facing the desert and was silent for a long time. A reporter asked why, and he said sincerely, "I don't think I conquered the desert. I am thanking Taklimakan for letting me pass."

Indeed, everything about human beings is endowed by nature. For this world, human beings cannot have the ability to conquer it. On the contrary, what human beings need is to have a grateful heart, so that human beings can inherit it endlessly.

7. Once, the house of former American President Roosevelt was stolen and many things were lost. A friend wrote to comfort him after hearing the news and advised him not to care too much. Roosevelt wrote back to his friend: "Dear friend, thank you for your letter to comfort me. I am safe now. Thank god: because first, the thief stole my things and didn't hurt my life; Second, the thief only stole some of my things, not all of them; Third, the luckiest thing is that he is the thief, not me. "

Stealing is absolutely unfortunate for anyone, but Roosevelt found three reasons to be grateful. This story inspires us how to be grateful for life.

Gratitude is the motivation for us to see the gap when we fail, the crisis when we are unfortunate, get warmth, inspire our courage to challenge difficulties, and then move forward in the past. Just like Roosevelt, if we look at the ups and downs of life from another angle and always feel grateful for life, we can always maintain a healthy attitude, perfect personality and enterprising belief. Gratitude is not pure psychological comfort, nor is it an escape from reality, nor is it Ah Q's spiritual victory method. Gratitude is a way of singing about life, which comes from love and hope for life.

Put a small piece of alum in the water to precipitate all the dregs; If we cultivate a grateful thought in our hearts, we can precipitate a lot of impetuousness and anxiety and melt a lot of dissatisfaction and misfortune.

8. Vietnamese Cobb fled to Tunxi to avoid this military disaster. Wandering under Tianmu Mountain, he and his wife spent the night under an extremely lush tree. The next morning, Koubuwei raised his axe to cut branches for firewood. His wife stopped him and said, "Thanks to it, we can survive. We should appreciate it as much as we admire our loving mother. "

9. After an academic report, a female reporter boarded the rostrum. After expressing her admiration, she suddenly asked sharply, "Mr. Hawking, Luger's disease has fixed you in a wheelchair forever." Don't you think fate has cost you a lot? " The audience was silent. Hawking still smiled, tapped his fingers on the keyboard a few times, and a sentence appeared on the screen: "I have the ideal I have been pursuing, my relatives and friends, and by the way, I still have a grateful heart." The audience applauded constantly. Life is a miracle, and having life is a blessing.

Matthew Henry, a famous biblical scholar, was once robbed by a robber.

Wallet. He wrote these points in his diary: "I am grateful, first, because I have never been shot;" Second, because although they took my wallet, they didn't take my life; Third, because although they took part of my money, it was not much; Fourth, because I was robbed, not robbed. "This example tells us that no matter how bad the environment is, as long as we look on the bright side, we will certainly find reasons to be grateful.

1 1, a little boy's gift to his mother: I walked a long way and picked up a small stone.

12, Zigong is the biggest gain of Confucius' wandering abroad 14 years, and it is also the "secret" of Confucius in his later years.

Secretary ". If Yan Yuan is a "perfect version of Confucius" and the embodiment of Confucius spirit, then Zi Gong is a successful representative of "practical version of Confucius". The ancients in China said that a gentleman has virtue, makes contributions and makes decisions. Zigong is impeccable in these three aspects, especially in making contributions. Sima Qian said, "As soon as Zi Gong came out, Lu rescued, qi chaotic, Wu broken, Jin strong, and the more you died. Zi Gong broke the situation, and the five countries changed in ten years. "Always with Lu Wei, the family is a daughter", just like the ancestors of Su Qin and Zhang Yi at the end of the Warring States Period. After the death of Confucius, Zi Gong became a natural "big brother". Others have been mourning for three years, but Zigong has been guarding the tomb for six years. Zi Gong has a proud temperament, but with a humble attitude, he learned the essence of knowledge from the teacher. Zi Gong is the least sour and bookish of all Confucius. Zi Gong, who had something to say, failed after his death. On the contrary, Ceng Zi, who had a little disdain for Confucius, became the bearer of Confucius' mantle.