今年は突然何が起こるかわからないので、1週早めにプレゼントを渡しました。

Only after winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade. 我々は冬が来てからやっと、松とヒノキが最後に萎れるのを知るのです。 Confucius...

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. 重大な事を引き受ける人は、たとえ規則的なやり方であっても、我々...

This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation. 今は小さな変更を加える時ではなく、変革の時です。 Ban Ki・Moon　パン・ギムン（第8代国連事務総長）

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an...

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours,...

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. あなたがしなければいけないことは、自分がどこに行くのか知る事です。答えはひとりで...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice....

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself... It's only when you...

My best successes came on the heels of failures. 私の最高の成功は、失敗の直後に来た。 Barbara Corcoran　バーバラ・コーコラン（米国実業家）

Pessimism never won any battles, whether in peace or in war. 悲観主義はどんな戦いにも勝てない、平和の内でも戦争中でも。 Dwight D. Eisenhower ドワイト・D・アイゼンハワー（米国第34代大統領）

I've been told my whole life I'm not up to snuff. Folks always doubt my worthiness until I get it done. Tune it out. Stay focused and...

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our...

The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do. 世の中はあなたや私が知っている事なんてほとんど気にしなくて、あなたや私...

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admires then....

Perfect valor consists in doing without witness all that we should be capable of doing before the whole world....

随分前の洋書フェアで、表紙が可愛かったので買ってみて積読していた児童書。 実はシリーズ物のようで、裏表紙に3冊載っていたので、これは4冊目っぽいです。 作者の名前がCaldecottだったので、アメリカのコールデコット賞と関係あるの？と調べたら全然関係ないみたい。それより、...

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. すべての個人は重要。全ての個人は役割を持つ。全ての個人は違いを作る。...

Trust is a pathless land. 真理はそこへ至る道の無い土地である。 Jiddu Krishnamurti　ジッドゥ・クリシュナムルティ（インド生まれの精神教師）

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. あなたの心を偉大な思想で育てなさい。英雄への信奉が英雄を作るのです。 Benjamin Disraeli...