无书读的日子

本月遇上了经济危机， 错失了买书的机会。为了让自己不会变成“面目可憎”， 找了些旧书出来读。。。
有张纬翊起的〈自己的房间〉和司恩鲁的〈不同凡想〉
倒遇上了不少精句。。。


钱，很重要但是比起利用它做出来的事情，显得不算什么。
人，应该对生活需求尽量满足，这样就可以去画自己想要画的图画，如果你目标过高，你永远无法 满足，经济会一直束缚着你，永远都无法画自己想要的美丽图画。
钱，若达不到自己想要的梦想，它，只是一张印刷过的纸罢了。

人生最漂亮的时候，不是成功的时候，而是坚信自己与不放弃的时候。

你计划的不一定能如你所愿，只有当下去做，才可以保证一定可以完成它。

聆听自己内在的声音，赶紧去做，就算回首，感叹时光飞逝，你依旧可以抚慰自己的心，对自己说著，我已经努力过了。

一个乐观者,不是看到自己失去什么.
一个乐观者,看到的是,自己还拥有什么.

Billy Elliot

This is a story of a young boy, Billy(Jamie Bell),a son of a miner(Gary Lewis) in Durham County. Forced by his dad to attend a boxing class, he choose to attend the ballet class instead. Amazed by his passion for dancing, his dance instructor(Julie Walters) held a private class for Billy, and encourage him to register for an audition in Royal Ballet School.
Watching this movie reminds me that you can excel in everything you are passionate with, as long as you put in the effort.

I like the part where Billy was asked what did it feel like when he was dancing, he answered: " Sort of feels good. It's sort stiff and that, but once I get going, then I like forget everything, and sort of disappear. I feel like change in my whole body. Like there's fire in my body. I'm just there, flying like a bird. Like electricity." Classic man...

This film is directed by Stephen Daldry, who makes his feature film debut with Billy Elliot, and produced by Greg Brenman & Jon Finn.

Beside winning numerous awards, (British Independent Film Awards(2000), BAFTA Awards(2001),nominated for Academy Awards, in categories Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Writing in a Screenplay in 2001)

This movie is named by magazine Total Film as the 39th greatest British film of all time.

(Rating: 92.5/100)

God Knows What He's About

When God wants to drill a man, and thrill a man, and skill a man,
When God wants to mold a man, to play the noblest part;
When He yearns with all his heart, to create so great and bold a man,
That all the world shall be amazed.
Watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects whom He royally elects!
How He hammers him and hurts him, and with mighty blows converts him,
Into trial shapes of clay which only God understands;
While his tortured heart is crying, and he lifts beseeching hands;
How He bends but never breaks, when his good He undertakes;
How He uses whom He chooses, and with every purpose fuses him;
By every act induces him, to try His splendor out
God knows what He's about

(author unknown)

Why God Send People to Hell

Hell is not a place where people are consigned because they were pretty good blokes, but they just didn't believe the right stuff. They are consigned there, first and foremost, because they defy their maker and want to be at the center of universe.
Hell is not filled with people who have already repented, only God isn't gentle enough or good enough to let them out. It's filled with people who, for all eternity, still want to be at the center of the universe and eho persist in their God-defying rebellion.
What is God to do? If He says it doesn't matter to him, then God is no longer to be admired. He's either amoral or positively creepy. For him to act in any other way in the face of such blatant defiance would be to reduce God himself.
(D.A.Carson, interview with Lee Strobel)