Trong sự tu tập nhẫn nhục, kẻ oán thù là người thầy tốt nhất của ta. (In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.)Đức Đạt-lai Lạt-ma XIV
Thành công không phải là chìa khóa của hạnh phúc. Hạnh phúc là chìa khóa của thành công. Nếu bạn yêu thích công việc đang làm, bạn sẽ thành công. (Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.)Albert Schweitzer
Nếu quyết tâm đạt đến thành công đủ mạnh, thất bại sẽ không bao giờ đánh gục được tôi. (Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.)Og Mandino
Không nên nhìn lỗi người, người làm hay không làm.Nên nhìn tự chính mình, có làm hay không làm.Kinh Pháp cú (Kệ số 50)
Sự ngu ngốc có nghĩa là luôn lặp lại những việc làm như cũ nhưng lại chờ đợi những kết quả khác hơn. (Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.)Albert Einstein
Hoàn cảnh không quyết định nơi bạn đi đến mà chỉ xác định nơi bạn khởi đầu. (Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.)Nido Qubein
Ta sẽ có được sức mạnh của sự cám dỗ mà ta cưỡng lại được. (We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.)Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ngu dốt không đáng xấu hổ bằng kẻ không chịu học. (Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.)Benjamin Franklin
Trực giác của tâm thức là món quà tặng thiêng liêng và bộ óc duy lý là tên đầy tớ trung thành. Chúng ta đã tạo ra một xã hội tôn vinh tên đầy tớ và quên đi món quà tặng. (The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honor the servant and has forgotten the gift.)Albert Einstein
Khi thời gian qua đi, bạn sẽ hối tiếc về những gì chưa làm hơn là những gì đã làm.Sưu tầm

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When the first Europeans came to North America, they found dense forests coming down
right to the shore. So thick were the forests that it is said that a squirrel could travel from
the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River without once touching the ground. Clearing
these trees to make room for fields and buildings was a very difficult task for the early
settlers.
Another difficulty was finding enough food in this new land. Many European crops would
not grow in this climate. Carrying and storing seeds over a long period was also risky.
Native Indians were often helpful in teaching the settlers how to find food. But sometimes
there were no Indians nearby, or they were hostile.
John Chapman is famous today because he helped the early settlers grow one important
product apples. Apples could be eaten fresh in the fall, or stored through the winter.
They could be made into fresh apple juice or alcoholic cider. They could be dried, or
made into applesauce. Apples also could be made into vinegar, which was very useful for
keeping vegetables from spoiling.
John Chapman was born in Massachusetts in 1774, the year before the American
Revolution began. John's father joined George Washington's army to fight for American
independence from Great Britain. While the war was going on, John's mother died. In
1780, John's father married again, and soon John had lots of young brothers and sisters.
John probably worked on his father's farm as he was growing up. Then he worked on
neighbouring farms. It may be at this time that John began to learn about apples.
After the Revolutionary War, the population of the U.S.A. was expanding. Many
Americans wanted to go west over the mountains to find land in Indian Territory. In the
fall of 1797, young John Chapman headed west into Pennsylvania. On his way, he
gathered leftover apple seeds from the cider mills that he passed. As usual, John walked
barefoot, but as he travelled snow began to fall. He tore strips off his coat and tied them
around his feet. Then he made snowshoes out of tree branches. When he arrived in the
west, he began to clear land and plant apple seeds. This began a pattern that would last
Chapman's whole life. He would travel ahead of the settlers, clear land, and then sell his
baby apple trees to the settlers when they arrived. When the area became too settled,
Chapman would move further west, and start again.
Many settlers regarded John Chapman as a strange character. He never bought new
clothes, but wore whatever old clothes came his way. But he was always welcome at a
settler's cabin. John was good at clearing land, telling stories, and growing apples. He
liked children, and children liked him. He was a religious man and would read to the
settlers about God and living together peacefully.
At this time, there was conflict between the settlers and the Indians about land. John
managed to be friendly with both groups. But John did warn the settlers if the Indians
were planning to attack them.
Every fall, John went east to gather more apple seeds. Then he would go further west
and find some empty land to plant his seeds. During the warm weather, he tended all his
fields of baby apple trees. Once they were properly grown, he sold the seedlings to
settlers. When he had earned enough money, he bought land to grow more apple trees.
In his own lifetime, he became known as Johnny Appleseed. Legends grew up about him.
It was said that his bare feet could melt snow, and that he could leap across rivers.
Johnny Appleseed never built himself a real home. He was a wanderer all his life,
travelling west to Indiana and Iowa and back east again. He enjoyed sleeping outdoors,
lying on his back, looking up at the stars and thinking about God and his world.
He died in Indiana in 1845, and no one knows exactly where he is buried. But all through
that region are hundreds of apple trees. These apple trees are the most fitting memorial
to John Chapman the legendary Johnny Appleseed.

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