The Book of Birthday Wishes

The Book of Birthday Wishes
 

很特別的一本書，
100多位世界名人的信札或傳記，
充滿生日的祝福、期許、省思和回顧，
有愛情，
親情，
友誼，
分享，
回憶，
充滿智慧，
發人深思，
感人肺腑。 這本書吸引我的地方是在每封節錄的信件或傳記之前 ，
都有背景介紹、寫信人的生平及和收信人的關係，
或是這封信、文章收錄的來源。
藉由閱讀，
增加我對
Mark Twain,
Robert Frost,
Albert Einstein,
E. B. White,
Eleanor Roosevelt,
Lewis Carroll...
等對世界文學、學術、政治等各方面具有影響力的人物的認識。




分享書中的智慧語話：
1. A birthday is a good time to begin to live anew: throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes,
and never putting them on again.
(Bronson Alcott and his daughter Anna Alcott) (p.91)
2. Life is a gift I am glad of,and I do not curse the day when I was born. On the contrary, if I had never been
born, I would never have had friends to love, to be loved by, never have made mistakes to learn from,
never have seen new countries......
(Thomas Merton) (p.105)
3. It seems as though I had known you for years instead of weeks,
for time doesn't matter when two people think and feel in the same way about so many things.
(Rachel Carson and her friend Dorothy Freeman) (p.121)
4. Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do.
(1) Things we ought to do.
(2) Things we've got to do.
(3) Things we like doing.
(C. S. Lewis adn his goddaughter Sarah) (p.222)

很值得慢慢品味的書，
很有文學性，
頗具歷史性，
對我來說，
是很對味的一本書！
超愛！