简短的英语哲理小故事

篇一：英语短文哲理小故事

英语短文哲理小故事

----上帝的咖啡

God's Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us." God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the rest to God.

Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

Two traveling angles stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angles stay in the mansion’s guestroom. Instead the angles were given a small space in the cold basement. As they made their bed in the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angle asked why, the older angle replied, “Things aren’t always what they seem.”

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing the little food they had the couple let the angles sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angles found the farmer and his in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angle was infuriated and asked the older angle how he could have let this happen. “The first man had everything, yet you helped him,” he accused. “The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow lie”.

“Things aren’t always what they seem,” the older angle replied. “when we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it.”

“Then last night as we slept in the farmer’s bed, the angle of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. (来自:WWw.zW2.CN 爱作文网)Things aren’t always what they seem.

篇二：中英文对照哲理小故事

上帝的咖啡

一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。 老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。 等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。

生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。

上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。享受你们的咖啡吧。 最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。 简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。 其他的，就留给上帝吧。

God's Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

Leave the rest to God.

篇三：小故事故事小故事励志小故事英语小故事哲理小故事

小故事故事小故事励志小故事英语小故事哲理小故事

1999年的某天深夜，我驾驶着10轮平板大卡车行驶在漫长、笔直的27号高速公路上，已经穿过了佛罗里达的狭长地带。运送我上车拖货，晚上时间是再好不过的了。装在长长的平板上的是250个蜂箱，里面挤满了蜜蜂。

我从14岁开始就从事养蜂工作，当时父亲从邻居家带了些蜂箱回来。养蜂对我来说即是一种职业也是一种爱好，而且它还有另外意义。在我眼里，不起眼的蜜蜂是上帝赋予我们地球最神奇的一种动物。从导航到给无数水果和鲜花授粉，蜜蜂的世界充满了神秘。我喜欢和它们打交道，它们给我带来了无穷的乐趣。

那天深夜，公路上特别空寂。如果一切正常，我将在清晨卸下这批蜜蜂，回家与妻子达伦和我们的小儿子朱斯丁共度假日。我低头看了一眼路面情况，只见一辆汽车迎面驶来。它突然驶进了我的车道，我竭力避免与之相撞，脚猛踩下刹车，并朝右方迅速打方向盘。

800万只毒蜂向我袭来

我的卡车来了个空翻，车顶撞了个粉碎，挡风玻璃爆裂开了，路面腾起的灰尘从玻璃的裂缝吹了进来。卡车终于停住时，我已经头朝下，身体被卡在座位上，周围是压扁的驾驶舱，将我封闭在了里面。车顶距我的脸只有几英寸，撞击将我的一条腿紧紧地夹住，方向盘死死地抵住我的胸腔。我能活动双臂，但于事无补。

我的脸因挡风玻璃碎片的擦刮出血不止，我的双臂也被划破了，到处都是血。我在漆黑一团的黑暗中无法看见一切，可我能感觉到黏糊糊的混合着泥土的气味。还有其他什么东西和血液混在一起，肮脏且滑腻腻的。是柴油，我心想。油箱肯定漏了！一个小小的火星便能让眼前的一切吞没进火海中，而我的身上浸满了柴油！我屏住呼吸聆听脚步声或者汽车驶近的鸣笛声----任何能显示援救正在到来的声音。不幸的是，我听见了另一种声音：一种尖锐的嗡嗡声。