晨讀英語美文100篇六級Choose Optimism

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.40]Passage 31. Choose Optimism [00:07.65]If you expect something to turn out badly, it probably will. [00:13.56]Pessimism is seldom disappointed. [00:16.41]But the same principle also works in reverse. [00:20.13]If you expect good things to happen, they usually do! [00:24.17]There seems to be a natural cause-and-effect relationship between optimism and success. [00:30.30]Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces, [00:34.79]and each of us must choose which we want to shape our outlook and our expectations. [00:40.91]There is enough good and bad in everyone’s life—ample sorrow and happiness, [00:46.71]sufficient joy and pain—to find a rational basis for either optimism or pessimism. [00:53.28]We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or curse. [00:57.87]It’s our decision: From which perspective do we want to view life? [01:02.79]Will we look up in hope or down in despair? [01:06.51]I believe in the upward look. [01:09.25]I choose to highlight the positive and slip right over the negative. [01:14.06]I am an optimist by choice as much as by nature. [01:18.11]Sure, I know that sorrow exists. [01:21.61]I am in my 70s now, and I’ve lived through more than one crisis. [01:26.32]But when all is said and done, I find that the good in life far outweighs the bad. [01:32.89]An optimistic attitude is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. [01:37.81]The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, [01:42.62]and how well you will get along with other people. [01:45.80]Conversely, negative thoughts, attitudes,and expectations feed on themselves; [01:51.93]they become a self-fulfilling prophecy. [01:55.09]Pessimism creates a dismal place where no one wants to live. [01:59.36]The only thing more powerful than negativism is a positive affirmation, [02:04.72]a word of optimism and hope. [02:06.91]One of the things I am most thankful for is the fact that [02:11.07]I have grown up in a nation with a grand tradition of optimism. [02:15.22]When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished. [02:20.59]When the world is seen as a hopeful, positive place, [02:24.53]people are empowered to attempt and to achieve.

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