Section A Discussion

Discuss the following questions.

1.      Are you enjoying college lifeat present?

2.      What do you appreciate most inthis world? Why?

3.      What specific goals do you havein life?

4.      What can you do to make yourlife more valuable and meaningful?

Section B Quotes

Study the following quotes about the value oflife. Which quote do you like best? Why?

1.  The purpose of life is a life of purpose.               — Robert Byrne

About Robert Byrne (1930- ): American writer; the author of sevennovels, five collections of humorous quotations, seven books on billiards andtwo anthologies. He was awarded thegreatest honor in the sport: induction into the Billiard Congress of America’sHall of Fame on July 21, 2001.

2.  We make a living by what we get; we make alife by what we give.   

                                                                — Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill (1874-1965): Britishpolitician who was Prime Minister during most of World War II and again from1951 to 1955. He is still remembered and admired by most British people as agreat leader who made possible Britain's victory in the war.

3.  Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

                                                                         —Mahatma Gandhi

About Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948): an Indian lawyerand politician who successfully led the fight for India's independence from the British. Gandhi is famous especially for developing the idea of non-violent protest, and his methods have been copied in many other places. He was assassinated soon after India gained independence.

4.  There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

                   — Albert Einstein

About Albert Einstein (1879-1955): US physicist and mathematician, born in Germany, who developed the Theory of Relativity, which completely changed the way that scientists understand space and time.

5.  A man whodares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

                                                   — Charles Darwin

About Charles Darwin (1809-1882): British scientist who developed the Theory of Evolution, the idea that plants and animals develop gradually from simpler to more complicated forms by natural selection. He wrote about his ideas in his book On the Origin of Species (《物种起源》) (1859), and this caused a lot of argument because some people thought his ideas were an attack on the description given in the Bible of the way life began.