One day a small boy was walking along the street in London. His name was Tom. It was a cold winter day in 1900. That day he could have no breakfast 1lunch. He wanted to buy bread, but he didn't2any money.

    His father died when he was very young. His mother was often very ill, so she could not 3Tom and his brother, Mike. They had to work to help their sick mother.

    He was small 4 his dream was very big. His wish was to be a great man in the world of film. So he worked very hard on singing and dancing. Then, one day a man came to him and asked, "5 for my film?" "Certainly," he answered. And he did his 6in it. Many people said, "We have never seen  7 interesting film."

    Thirty years 8 , this same boy was among the most famous people in the world. He made many good 9. A lot of people liked 10.

    On Christmas Day, all family members gathered at our parents' home. No member had ever1Christmas Day with our mother and father. Only this year, things were2. Our father passed away on November 26th, and this was our first Christmas3him. Mother was doing her best to be glad, 4I could tell this was especially hard for her.

    A few months earlier, I had painted my parents. I'd planned to give them5Christmas gifts. While painting one day, my father came to visit me. I wanted to show him, but suddenly I realized I should give him a6. Yet something urged（促使） me to share this moment with him. He walked closer to appreciate（欣赏） the portraits（肖像）.Then he stepped back to eye them at a distance. Finally, with a tear7down one cheek, he said, "Look! How beautiful your mother is! Will you let me have them framed（镶框）? "

    Then one night in November the phone8, and I was told father passed away. I finally9to call about the portrait framing and thanked God my father had got a10 to see the pictures before he died. I was surprised when the shopkeeper told me my father had11and had the gifted wrapped（包装）.Even though we had lost father, everyone12to be cheerful. As I looked into my mother's sad eyes, I13to give her Daddy's and my gift. As she got rid of（去除） the wrap, there was a small card inside. With tear-filled eyes and a wide14, she said, "I knew Daddy would be with us on Christmas Day!"

    I read the words written by my father, "Mother: Our daughter 15me why I am so blessed（幸福的）. I'll be looking at you always—Daddy.

    With a hat by his feet, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said," I'm blind, please help."

    Only a few people put1in the hat. A man was walking by. He dropped some coins into the hat, then turned the sign2wrote some words, put the sign back and left.

    Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people began to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see3things were going. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, " Were you the one who 4 my sign this morning? What did you write?"

    The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a(n)5way." What he wrote was. "Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it."

    Both the6told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by throwing some money into the7. The second one, 8, told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day. But the boy couldn't.

    There are at least two lessons we can learn9this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less Help them if you can. 10, be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.

    The story goes that two friends were walking across the desert.

    During the journey they had a1, and one friend hit the other in the face. The one who got hit was hurt, but2saying anything, he wrote in the sand, "Today my3 friend hit me in the face." They kept on walking until they found green fields and a beautiful river where they decided to4.The one who had been hit fell into the river and started5, but the friend saved him. After he was out of 6, he wrote on a stone, "Today my best friend saved my life."

    The friend who7and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why? "The other8, "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand where wind of forgiveness(宽容)can blow it away.9when someone does something good for us, we must carve(雕刻)it in the stone where no wind can ever blow it away."

    Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in the stone. Send this phrase to people you will10forget. It's a short message to let them know that you will never forget them.