微笑不需要任何成本英语(20篇)

微笑面对生活，而我正需要这份微笑。

初三的生活，累，累，非常累。从早上一直学习到晚上，一天下来身体都僵硬了，背的东西很多：语文的文言文、诗、词;英语的单词、语法;政治书上记的笔记、它们就像重重大山压得我们喘不过气来。

我坐在自己的座位上，郁闷充满了整个头脑，一会儿抬头看天花板，一会儿看看窗外的风景，觉得没有什么有趣的，就低下头看英语书。

在看书的同时，听到了轻快的脚步声，抬头一看，她的脸上挂着甜甜的笑容，这使我很惊诧。她看见我说：“你在预习课文吗?”我点了点头，对她说：“什么事你这么开心?”她回答：“并不为什么事，只是因为初三的生活很充实，每天都可以学到很多知识，你知道吗?我认为这种感觉很好。”我苦恼地说：“可是每天学习很累，有看不完的书，做不完的作业。这样不累吗?”她一边摇头一边说：“其实也不是很累，只要肯支坚持，微笑的面对它，它必然会成为你的奴隶。可是，你不微笑，它就会俘获你。”我似乎懂了，我说：“我要微笑，我要天天微笑，我要成为它的主人。”我想珍珠在被河蚌办困之后，坦然露出微笑，造就了盈泪的玉珠;宝剑在被烈火锤打之后，泰然露出微笑，于是亮出了那锃亮的刀锋、这都是微笑的结果。

历史上司马迁、李白、陶渊明、他们都用微笑去面对耻辱、痛苦、不幸、孤独、才创作了那么多脍炙人口的作品，万古流芳。

我想以后就要把微笑这词写入我的生活词典中，生活需要微笑。

微笑，不仅仅是一种笑，既是朋友间友谊的最美好标志，也是滋润生活那块甘田的妙药。

——题记

当我打开沉重的那扇大门，我的心情也变得沉重而又繁琐。

我毕业了。

望着那扇大门，不由得想起同学在课间的嬉戏打闹，在课上与老师们的顶嘴开玩笑，体育课上一起“罢工”，音乐课上甜美的歌声和灿烂的笑容……

望着那些目送学生们的老师，不知为何，我的泪潸然落下，止不住了，那是我第一次在这样重要的场合流泪。我止住它，抹干了眼泪，冲那些共同度过三年的“战友”们微笑。

流泪，只能说明自己对这共同经过三年的人和事依依不舍，而微笑，说明了我们对向前迈进的渴望与决心，互相支持，祝福。

想到这儿，我便想起了与舍友们经历的微笑。

“今天咱们对对子吧，考考你们，怎么样?”

“没问题!谁对不出来，罚……罚唱歌怎么样?”

“可以，那我先来吧，千千万万心连心，接下句。”

“家家户户笑开颜!”我嘴快一步，搞了个先发制人。

“对得好啊，朕甚是喜欢。”

“就你还朕?哈哈，别逗了……”大家都异口同声地“嘲笑”了她半天。她也微微的笑了起来。

我又一次落泪了，涩涩的，这种感觉甚至让我缓不过来。

老师们的笑脸，更是让我揪心不已。

那是刚开学不久的早晨，那时的我正担任英语课代表。

我走进老师的办公室，一切都是那么平常。

英语老师她总是喜欢笑，我也喜欢笑，所以办公室的老师们总管我们叫最拍搭档，我和老师也欣然接受了。

今天的英语老师散发着悲凉的感觉，我也很纳闷。老师每天都笑眯眯的，这样的情况我也是出乎意料。

“老师，您没事吧?看起来有些不高兴。”

老师看了看我，一如既往用那甜美的声音和我说话，“没事，老师这几天就是有些烦。”

我笑了笑，对老师说，笑，是人最美的时候。老师听完也开心了起来，其他老师也都捧场起来，连连赞我的方法是灵丹妙药。我笑得更甜了。

我停在校门前，回头望了望那帮还未离去的老师们，他们的眼神里都是依依不舍的感情，学生们也是，包括我。

栽在校门旁的那棵柳树，也掉了些叶子，这也是我们匆匆走过的痕迹罢。但在树枝上兹出的小嫩芽还在随风摆动，我笑了。

这时我的身后传来了许多人的喊声，“我们都会笑着走出校园。老师，同学们，要微笑，生活的意义就在于一个个灿烂的微笑!”

在巷子那小小的空间里，我和我的邻居们彼此默立，眼神淡然。等到了目的地，各奔东西，就仿佛邻里关系也不是了。刚搬来的那会儿，我试图对每个人微笑，可当我跟别人眼神相撞，嘴角还没来得及扬起时，对方早已掉转脑袋离我而去了。搬进这这幢楼将近一年，除了一楼徐叔叔一家三口，其他人我都不认识。

九月，二楼搬来一位叔叔。第一次见面他是一位全身挂满包包袋袋的先生。他气喘吁吁地跑过来，把身上的包包袋袋一个个取下来笑容可掬地对身边的人说：“大叔，帮我拿一下，谢谢。”“大婶，帮我拿一个包好吗?”“小妹妹，请帮我拿一下。”等他把包裹一一安顿好，又灿烂地说：“大家好，我是新搬来的，住在二楼，是一位司机，请大家以后多多关照。”同行的人们都礼貌地点了点头。我也被这热情的叔叔逗笑了。二楼到了，叔叔接过他的包依然微笑地点了点头说：“谢谢大叔大婶小妹妹，我家到了，请到我家坐坐。”同行的人们都开心地笑了。

在这小小的窄道里，每个人心底沉睡已久的微笑与热情被唤醒了。虽然淡淡的一笑微不足道，但却令我每天都心情舒畅。含笑走过的每一个角落，也仿佛感受到了每位擦肩者来自于心里的真诚的微笑。

微笑如一缕阳光，温暖咱们的心房；温暖如一股清泉，滋润咱们的心田；微笑如一缕春风，唤醒咱们的心灵。咱们的生活需要微笑！

我，是一个内向的女孩，不喜欢跟别人交流，有什么事都往自己心里放。在班级中，我就如一棵墙角的小草，既得不到老师的重视，也得不到同学们的喜爱，连放学都是一个人走。一个微笑从此改变了我。

有一次，在英语公开课上，同学们都积极举手来回答问题，唯我没有举起，我以为老师不会注意到我。谁知道，老师竟然叫了我的名字，我很害怕，慢慢的站起，同学们个个用质疑的眼光望着我，好像都在说：“她算什么啊，老师怎么会叫她啊？”我开始支支吾吾起来，我也不知道说了什么，而且还有这么多的老师在场，我真是丢死人了。

只见老师走到我的座位旁边，小声的说：“别紧张，慢慢来，你是可以的。”接着，她对着我微笑，看见她的微笑，我好像吃了镇静剂一样，对答如流，全场鼓起了掌声，我再次望老师，她的眼神流露出对我的肯定。那一刻，我心血澎湃，全身充满力量。

从那节公开课结束后，我彻底改变了变得有自信了，我每天都和同学们友好得相处，在课堂上上积极起来，课后爱追着老师问问题，成绩一下子就上来了，期末还拿了三好学生！我再不是墙角的那棵小草，而是正在美丽绽放的花朵。我能改变那么多，多亏老师那个微笑，是我脱胎换骨全新改变。

微笑，定格了永恒自信！我坚信，生活需要微笑！

尼采说：“人类一思考，上帝就发笑。”巴黎大学的围墙上也刷着“生活在别处”这样富有诗意的标语。我曾经长久地喜欢着这些东西，并且将它们奉为闪光的真理。当然，那个时候我还没有读到海蒂的故事。

亚特兰大市的海蒂在特定的实验室度过了她的二十三岁生日。这个虎肤苍白的女孩一出世便得了一种怪病，她的皮肤对外部环境过敏，她一直住在科学家们为她制造的无菌实验室里。刀子的母亲没有抱过她一天，她孤独地度过童年，孤独地进入了青年。更为残酷的是，她不可以哭泣，因为咸咸的泪水会腐蚀她的皮肤。这是怎样的生活?可海蒂却微笑着告诉我们：“我可以上网，我喜欢想像，那里有我快乐的天堂。”

因为不能流泪，海蒂选择了微笑，诗人艾青也是如此。在一块史无前列的浩劫面前，他始终清醒地微笑着。对批斗他的红卫兵笑，对打击“审判”他的造反派笑，在茫茫的大兴安岭林海中，你常常可以看到他哼着歌劳动的场面。他说“一个浪，一个浪无休止的打来，在它脚下碎开，它的脸上、身上像刀割过一样，可她还是站在那里含着微笑，看着海洋。”正由于诗人有着一种超凡的豁达与超脱，艾青的《仙人掌》一诗中，就有这种让人震憾的诗句：“养在窗台上，构想着海洋。”

在那特殊的年代，同样作为诗人，宣称“黑暗给了我们黑的眼睛，呆是我却用它寻找光明”的顾成和才华横溢的海子，却因为不会微笑，痛苦地远离了这个世界。

因为不能流泪，一些人消积地选择了死亡;因为不能流泪，一些人却积极地选择了微笑。同样是面对困境，只是前者的“壮举”实在无法引起后者那样大的震憾。所以我说，“生命与生活都是一万个玩笑的堆积”是闪光的哲理。我很想告诉米兰人昆德拉，我见过一种微笑，比上帝本人的微笑还要美。

有了微笑，我们的生活才能更加美好。下文为大家整理了生活需要微笑的高中作文，希望对大家有帮助。

生活需要微笑的高中作文篇一：

微笑，是一种放开心胸畅游的方法；微笑，是一样给人放心满意的证明；微笑，是一个古往今来传颂绝色的容颜。我们的生活需要微笑。

我们预测不到生活，谁也不知道下一秒会发生什么，我们要调整好自己的心态，以微笑面对生活，嘴角上扬，变成一个美好的弧度，为生活增添色彩。微笑，就像它的字眼儿一样，着实令人喜欢。当你感到无助和寂寞时，意外的收获一份微笑，你会发觉世间的温情无处不在；当你陷入困境，需要理解和支持时，一份微笑就是一份特棒的礼物。收获微笑是幸福，赠人微笑同样也是幸福，当每一次微笑在你的脸上绽开时，你会感到分外的轻松，愉悦，正所谓赠人玫瑰，手有余香。微笑，可以让人豁然开朗，逃出困境，还可以给予他人温暖，给他人力量，为在困境中的人伸出援助之手。如此简单的一个微笑，可是它沟通了人与人之间的情感，它在心灵上的触动会让人舒心，它建立起良好的人际关系，消除了人性隔膜，在生活中要记得微笑。

生活中会有许多挫折，有很多困难，我们要学会以微笑面对这些，微笑，它带给我们的是很多愉悦与欢畅的心情，可以将它比作一把火、一片温暖的阳光、一个最让人心动的表情……微笑，它犹如灿烂的阳光，犹如一把黑夜的火把，让光明和温暖穿越冷漠的空间，传递着一腔热情、一份关怀、一份温暖、一份宽慰……让我们在生活中有了更大的勇气，更多的信心，雨后的天空会更加湛蓝，阳光总在风雨后，要相信会有彩虹。雨果曾经说过：“生活就是面对真实的微笑，就是越过障碍注视将来。”

生活需要微笑，让我们敞开心胸，用微笑迎接更美好的未来。

生活需要微笑的高中作文篇二：

在漫漫人生的道路上，难免有挫折和不幸的事儿发生，当我们遇到了这些个绊脚石该怎么办呢？是堕落、是颓唐、还是从此一蹶不振？都不是，当遇到了挫折和不幸的时候，我们应该满面笑容的应对、战胜它。

记得那是自上七年级以来的第三次周清，我考得很差，从客观原因上说是没写完加粗心，考试过后在寝室里我依旧是那个傻傻的看似没有任何事儿能够伤害我的“汤大圆”，听室友讨论考试的内容，偶尔插上一两句话让这一群“闺友们”别发现我的异常，结果我顺利“过关了”。

第二天是暴风雨来临的时刻，我以为我可以承受、我以为我很坚强，可是当那张仅仅只有47分的试卷摆在我面前的时候，我愕然了······仰望天，空荡荡的没有一片云彩，就如我此刻的心一般空荡，看着看着，“47”好像在嘲笑我的无能，终于那股压抑已久的恼怒迸发出来了，“呼哧”一声，那可恶的“47”被我揉成了一个小圆球，可我还不解气，当我还想再踏上几脚的时候，它因受不了我的虐待不知跑哪儿去了，而我不知为何：“扑哧”笑了起来，好奇怪，心情怎么会突然好了起来，也是在那一刻起，我想起了王大晨的话：这份是谁考出来的？既然是你考出来的你埋怨谁呢？是啊！我怨谁呢？分已经出来了，天下没有卖后悔的药，只有在以后好好学，就当这是一次给我的教训吧！坐在旁边的同桌还是一副目瞪口呆的惊讶样随后帮我找到“47”“园儿，还要不要你卷子了？”“······”“给了你以后就不准再扔东西了”“哦”那时，谁也不知道我心里甜滋滋的，内心里有一个微微翘起的弧度······

微笑，能递进友谊；微笑，能跨越挫折和苦难；微笑，能让人的心情开朗······所以常笑一笑吧，生活需要微笑。

生活一直在对我们微笑，只是我们没有发现罢了，只是在发现的那一瞬间，突然感觉，生活好美!

请原谅我不会安心地祈祷上帝，不会虔诚地说：“善哉善哉!”但是我会微笑。因为我曾经看见过生活的微笑，于是，我成了微笑的使者。

有幸见过的生活第一次微笑大概是去年吧。在一次周末，我正骑着车玩，突然，不知怎么地骑不动了。下车一看，车轮里戳进了一枚钉子。无奈，只好推着回家。一位车夫见我推着车走来，关切地问：“怎么啦?大老远就见你推着车，是不是坏了?”或许是头一次遇到这么热情的陌生人，我愣住了，好半天才挤出一个不知有多难看的微笑。上了车，我没有跟车夫聊天的习惯，倒是他――那位从年龄上完全可以当我爷爷的长者，不停地与我说话。

“车子坏了?车胎好像没气了。”

“嗯。”

“你家在那边吧，我有个老朋友就在那边修车，要不，送那儿修修?今天天暗了，明天早上你去拿?”

我脑子飞快地转了起来，他和那修车人会不会是一伙的?会不会联合起来要抢我的车?我不敢再往下想。

“不不不，不用了，明天我让我妈去”我一时竟舌头打结。

“你们这些孩子啊，一遇到点事就知道找爸爸妈妈，要自立啊!”他语重心长地说。

后来，就到家了。付钱时，我仔细地端详了他的脸，现在已经记不清了，唯一刻在我记忆里的，是一个微笑，一个不经意的微笑，伴随着找钱时一句“拿好!”最自然地绽放。第二天，我独自推着车来到那个修车的地方。果然，一会儿工夫就修好了。

或许是因为这件事的原因，我一直喜欢看中央电视台少儿频道的公益广告，喜欢看那些真诚、质朴的微笑。因为我知道，生活一直在微笑。

上星期你班同学就“现代社会是否需要孔子精神”进行了一次讨论，讨论情况如下表所示。请你根据表中的内容写一篇100词左右的英语短文。

正方 60%的同学认为：世界各国对孔子的研究愈来愈热，反映了人们对其思想的重视；孔子思想推动了世界和平的发展。

反方 40%的同学认为：孔子思想诞生于几千年前，已经过时；孔子思想在某种意义上限制了社会的发展。

你的观点

注意：1. 可适当发挥，以使行文连贯；

2. 参考词汇：孔子思想Confucian thought

重视treasure

过时的outdated。

One possible version:

Last week we had a discussion about whether we still need Confucian thought in modern society. About 60% of the students in my class think it necessary to study Confucian thought. For one thing, more and more people in different countries are bursting to study it, showing that it is still treasured in the world. For another, Confucian thought is believed to have made great contributions to the peace of human beings.

But every coin has two sides. About 40% of the students in my class insist Confucian thought is outdated. In a way it limits the development of the world.

Different people have different opinions. I think Confucian thought still has some positive effects on our society.

[现代社会是否需要孔子精神英语作文

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

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生活不仅需要一份忙碌的工作，也需要一场说走就走的旅行，更需要一段微笑向暖的时光，每个人的微笑都值得铭记和定格。

当一个孩子因为考试不及格，被家长训得闷闷不乐，自信顿失的时候：其实只要对他说：你已经做的很好了，这次不行，那就下次更努力些吧！他便坦然接受这次失败的事实，第二天早早起床迎着煦暖的春风，作笨鸟先飞状。春天的气息扑面而来，仿佛是在告诉人们：应该每一天都要给予自己和他人犹如阳光般温暖的笑容。

当一个青年满怀期望地去面试，结果却是一次又一次的失败，而且找不到出路在哪里，就会觉得生活四顾茫然了。中午的时候，当他下楼买面包回来的时候，无意中看见一位衣衫褴褛的流浪歌手。熙熙攘攘的行人对他视而不见听而不闻，但他却独自一人面带微笑一首接一首地唱着，仿佛沉醉于音乐的氛围。于是，青年情不自禁地停下脚步，缓缓地向他走去。来到他身旁的坐椅上，安静地听着他的歌声。他犹如冬日暖阳般的笑容，一瞬间就让失意青年心中的坚冰融解！一首歌的时间转瞬即逝，流浪歌手转过身来面对青年说：“你是不是也是纳闷：我现在这样落魄，怎么还笑得这么开心？青年惊诧道：“你怎么知道？”流很歌手会心一笑，反问道：“难道我要每天每头丧气地唱歌么？还没等青年回答，歌手便答道：“不，应该想着春天是一个温暖的季节，有阳光让你觉得这个世界并不冷漠，每天带着阳光般的微笑，让人觉得你很温暖，是一个天天向上的人。而且你很需要让自己变成一个像太阳那般温暖的人，发出阳光耀眼的笑容，”说完，流浪歌手背上吉他融入了人海。

第二天早晨，青年把自己打扮得神采飞扬，带着微笑，拿着求职简历来到一家公司面试，结果来得波澜不惊——他终于成功了！而且他也找到了自身原因——那就是那副毫无表情的模样。

我们每一个人都应该面带微笑，像太阳般的把温暖传递给周围的每一个人。那一刻，你就会觉得温暖无处不在，幸运不请自来。

轻轻地勾起嘴角，一个甜美的微笑。它，会给你带来无限的安慰与快乐。同时，别人也会因此振奋起来。

我的家在一个很小的家属院里，家属院的后面是一片无尽的蔷薇园。盛放的蔷薇，似在对每一个人微笑。蔷薇园的深处，有一个小小的屋子，却住着一个“不小”的人。

每天上放学，那个房屋里总会出来一个慈祥的奶奶，她带着她的猫。无论谁从那里过，她总会向别人微笑，对我也是。那似乎是一个有魔力的动作。

“天天不努力上进，只知道玩！”妈妈愤怒的声音在我耳边回荡。刚刚出完成绩，我考得不好，妈妈很生气，罚我晚上不许吃饭，还要下楼去跑步。蔷薇园里没人，我便风一般地穿梭在那垂头无力的蔷薇丛中。蔷薇，不笑了。豆大的小灯，燃在老奶奶的家里，老奶奶轻轻推门，一手提着小椅，一手抱着那只猫，慢慢弯下腰，放开小椅坐下。她又勾起了唇角：“妞妞，怎么了？”我转过身，蹲在奶奶身边，拽了拽猫耳朵：“妈妈说我没考好，生气，可我努力了！”我哽咽了。奶奶的手覆在了我拽猫耳的手上，慢慢抬头，看着月亮，缓缓开口：“心伤，别灰心，因为心伤，才能证明你付出过。”我抬起头，凝视着奶奶的侧脸，那被月光笼罩的微笑，圣洁而不可侵犯。

我低下头，摸摸猫的头，抹抹脸，笑了笑。“高兴点儿了吧，下次努力，越努力，越幸运。”我站起来：“嗯！”妈妈下来找我，看见我和老奶奶交谈甚欢，又忍不住生气：“你怎么这么闲……”“妈妈，我会向你证明，我下一次一定考好！”我对着妈妈坚定地笑着。妈妈惊讶着，看着那微笑着的老奶奶。

过了几周，不知为什么，在小屋里那个“不小”的老奶奶呢？有一天，我走进那空旧的小屋，一张桌子，一张床，一只小椅，和那只猫，猫的爪下，一只空杯子。那个老奶奶呢？

奶奶呢？她走了？还是离开小屋了？我终于还是找不到她了。但她的微笑，她的言语，深深地烙入我的心田。那个“不小”的微笑奶奶，她那高洁的灵魂会永远如这盛放的蔷薇。

不开心时，微笑吧，生活需要微笑，微笑或许会改变你沉郁的生活。

生活，像一幅多姿多彩的图画，当你从中捕捉到那一缕最纯洁、最和谐的色彩时，你是否意识到它就是一种微笑?一种最纯真、最友善、最美丽的微笑。

如画般的童年在欢声笑语中渡过，如诗般的青年在微笑中渡过。微笑是生活的源泉，少了它，怎可以?

微笑，是生活的食粮，清新的空气吗?或许是。老师、亲人信任的微笑，朋友友情的微笑，陌生人和蔼可亲的微笑都可以牵动着你的心。

流失的时光冲不但记忆，这微笑使我倍感亲切。那是一个阳光明媚的早晨，我去买早餐。当我把点心装好，从口袋里想拿出钱来时，却摸了个空。这时我才想起钱放在茶几上没有拿来。我的心紧张起来了，卖早点的人要是知道我没有带钱，她会怎么处理?是把早餐抢回去还是骂我一顿呢?

如果我直接告诉她我没带钱来，等下一次再还给她，她会相信我吗?我该怎么办啊?正在我不知如何是好的时候，老板娘似乎看出了我的心思，对我说：“小妹妹是没带钱吗?”我红着脸点了点头。“没关系，下次再还也可以的嘛。”“但是……”还没等我说完，她便抢着说：“但是什么呀，你经常光顾我的店，这一顿就算我请你的吧!”我的心里顿时涌出一股感激之情，“谢谢”两个字不由得从嘴里吐出。老板娘看着我微微一笑，本来就小的眼睛此时眯成了一条缝，在阳光下显的那么慈祥。

一个善良慈祥的微笑令我难以忘怀，一颗爱心融入了我的心里。

一个夏日的午后，我乘坐8路公共汽车去图书馆。车上挤满了人，我费了好大劲儿才挤上去。因为是夏天，车上的各种味道混合在一起，令人越发作呕。我身边的一位老奶奶脸色很差，看起来十分不舒服，只可惜我也没能找到座位，不然我一定让给她。我多希望有一位好心人让座给这位老奶奶啊。

这时，一个童雅的声音从我身后传来：“老奶奶，我把位子让给你坐吧。”我回过头一看。还没等老奶奶推辞，她已把奶奶扶到了自己的座位上。老奶奶只好坐了上去。她对着小女孩笑了笑，小女孩也笑了笑，小嘴一抿，脸上露出了浅浅的酒窝，粉红色的面孔顿时变的微红，大大的眼睛眨了眨，显得越发可爱。

一个纯真美丽的微笑留在我的记忆中，也让我看到了一颗闪光的童心。微笑意味着理解与友善，微笑意味真诚的爱。这微笑难道不是生活中的真、善、美的结晶吗?真微笑难道不是编织社会和谐的快乐音符，沟通人与人心灵之间的真诚纽带吗?

生命是一弯彩虹，其中一定有一抹色彩是我们的微笑;生命是一篇美文，其中一定有一段写着我们的微笑;生命是天上的繁星，其中一定有一颗是我们的微笑。 Life is a curved rainbow, and there must be a touch of color that is our smile; life is a beautiful text, there must be a smile written by our life; life is heaven in heaven;One of the stars, one of them must be our smile.

人生就像是用无数大大小小的故事缀起的传记。用微笑面对生活，就像是为这篇传记镶上了珠宝钻石，使它光彩照人。不要说人生太过枯燥，这一切只是表象。当你细细打量时，你就会发现总有一个理由让我们微笑。

痛苦是考察你意志品质的考官，它会在你伤心时乘虚而入，肆虐地破坏你内心最美好的回忆。那时，眼泪会不知不觉地出现，愁容一片。如果是这样，你就输了，彻彻底底的败了。你该怎么办?没人帮助你，只有自己孤军奋战。其实你不知道，你还有绝地反击的.机会。微微笑，努力扬起嘴角，做到了你就可以反败为胜。用微笑面对痛苦，是抚平伤口的最佳良方。

离别是帮助你成长的助跑器。与亲人分别是在所难免的，那不舍的依恋无情地撕扯你的心，你无法阻止，也不愿就这样任它嚣张。亲人远去，同样孤独的背影也无法替你消除疼痛，你也只能自己想办法解决。离别之后寂寞了，任何事都要自己完成，不再是那“衣来伸手，饭来张口”的娇弱小公主。这些难题你该如何面对?是放弃逃避，还是拾起扛上，完成这些所谓大人干的活?别怕，微微笑，对着自己说：“做完这些，我就是大人了!”重逢之际，你就可以很骄傲地拍着胸口说：“我是大人了!”

帮助别人是提高自身修养的最佳方案。当你看到别人遭受困难时，你想过要伸出援助之手吗?如果有过，就证明你已然是一个高品质的人。助人为乐是中华民族的传统美德，所谓“赠人玫瑰，手有余香”。你在路边看见一位跌倒的老人，跑上前去搀扶起他(她)，老人的微笑会让你快乐;贫困山区的小朋友需要帮助时，我们伸出援助之手的一刹那，大家的笑容多么灿烂;汶川大地震后，我们献出爱心时，是微笑的阳光驱散了人们心中的阴霾。微笑，是心中的甜蜜。

微笑坚定地在生命中住下，它让我们的生命变得多姿多彩。在众多的美好事情背后，总有一个是因为我们的微笑。

我曾经长久地喜欢这些东西，并且将它们奉为的真理。

米兰·昆德拉在他的《生命不能承受之轻》的序里说：“人类一思考，上帝就发笑。”巴黎大学的围墙上也刷着“生活在别处”这样富有诗意的标语。我曾经长久地喜欢这些东西，并且将它们奉为的真理。

默然的片刻

“咣”地一声，电梯又关上了它沉重的大门。

在电梯间那个小小的空间里，我和我的邻居们彼此默立，眼神淡然。等到目的地，各奔东西，就仿佛连邻居的关系也不是了。刚搬来的那会儿，我试图对每个人微笑，可当我跟别人眼神相撞，嘴角还没来得及扬起，对方早已掉转了脑袋。搬进这幢楼将近一年，除了一楼看守人大爷，我谁都有不认识。

热闹的片刻

“嘟——”门开了。

出来的人争先恐后，进去的人更是不甘示弱，我挤在了电梯最里面的角落，如平日般安静地等待目的地的到来。电梯门关到一半的时候，我听到一个年轻男孩的声音：“等一下，等我一下！”我微微抬起头下意识地看了看，映入我眼帘的是一个全身挂满了包包袋袋的年轻男孩，他气喘吁吁地跑了进来，而且把身上的包一个个取下来。

“大婶，帮我拿一直，谢谢！先生，帮我拿一下这个包，好吗？大叔，谢谢！小姐，请帮我拿一下！”等到他把他的包裹一一“安顿”好，自已只背着把吉它的时候，他又笑容灿烂地说话了：“大家好，我是新搬来的，住五搂，音乐学校的吉它老师，请大家多多关照。”电梯里的人都意思性地点了点头，我也被这男孩的热情逗笑了——笑在心里。五楼很快就到了，小伙子谢谢大婶谢谢大叔地接过了他的包，走的时候，他还无限朝气地说了句“再见”。

快乐的片刻

“大家早上好！”

“早上好！”

背着吉它的男孩一进电梯又照旧问候着大家，大家也相互问候着。不知道从什么时候起，电梯间里有了谈话和笑声。的男孩的，也有我和邻居们的。我常常在电梯里听到了这样的话语：“等一下，张大爷就在后面！”“小伙子，音乐学校的新鲜事说来听听吧！”

在这小小的电梯间里，每个心底沉睡已久的微笑与热情被唤醒了。虽然淡淡的一笑不足道，但却令我每天都心情舒畅含笑走在城市中，也仿佛感受到了每位擦肩者的微笑。

在我身上也有同样的例子。有一次，我和做在我前面的葛楚琪因为桌子的前后而闹翻了。要放学是我发现有人的数学书掉在了地上，那本书是葛楚琪的，我俩同时低头去捡，“啪”的一声，我们的头撞在了一起，我门互望了对方一下，而后不约而同地笑了起来，这样，我们之间的恩怨就一笔钩销了。

我们的班主任老师也曾给我们讲过一个故事：有一天，一个美国的小女孩在街上散步，遇见了一个穿着很奇怪的人，小女孩冲他笑了笑，那人很惊讶，便给了小女孩4万美元，就匆忙上了车。回家后，小女孩的家人就报了警。经调查，那人是个因为早年丧母而养成了性格孤僻、傲慢，已经有几十年没有人冲他笑过了，所一他深深地被小女孩那天使般的笑容打动了。

生活中还有许多例子，因为不能流泪，一些人消极地选择了死亡；因为不能流泪，一些人却积极地选择了微笑。同样是面对困境，只是前者的“壮举”实在无法引起后者那样大的震憾。所以我说，“生命与生活都是一万个微笑的堆积”是闪光的哲理。我很想告诉米兰·昆德拉，我见过一种微笑，比上帝本人的微笑还要美。

生活需要微笑

一位诗人曾经这样写道：“你需要的话，可以拿走我的面包，可以拿走我的空气，可是别把你的微笑拿走。因为生活需要微笑，也正因为有了微笑，生活便有了生气。

当你失意与沮丧时，不妨笑一笑，你会顿时茅塞顿开；当你遇到困难一蹶不振时，笑一下，你就会觉得精神百倍；当你忧愁苦闷时，一个微笑，会驱散你心头的阴霾。笑给人以舒畅，给人以力量，给人以觉悟。

微笑的力量是不可抵挡的。中国和古巴争夺女排决赛权的比赛一波三折，激烈而精彩。是陈中和的微笑缓解了所有观众看球过程中的紧张。女排姑娘们高跳发球、大力扣杀、腾身拦网、奋勇救险的场景，虽然大家历历在目，可更清晰地浮现在大家脑海中是陈中和的微笑。这微笑，包含着平和、亲切、友善，还有他的自信。这微笑，深藏了沉静人格的锋芒，蕴含着克敌于从容淡定之中的力量。相信这微笑的力量，对队员，是一种肯定，一份激励；对球迷，是一缕春风，一个承诺。而对手，可能会在这微笑中感到紧张，感到一种力量难以抗衡。陈中和的微笑是有力量的，在他的微笑中，我们目睹了中国女排险境中的胜利。即使失败，那样的微笑，也会令人感到一份真实的慰籍和温暖。

人生道路上，面对一切悲哀和困难时，不妨试着微笑一下吧！拨开一切阴云晨雾，抛开“雾里看花，水中望月”的迷茫，迎着昔日欢笑的脚步，一路微笑走来。

微笑，给人以动力，给人以魅力，带着阳光般的笑脸去迎接人生征途中的苦难险阻。不敢未来成与败，苦与乐，只要坦然去面对，总会有新的梦想展翅翱翔。

不是一切大树都甘愿北风吹倒；不是一切种子都能落地生根；不是一切梦想都情愿被折断翅膀。但有时的一个微笑就可以令时空旋转。

生活需要微笑

阳光下，那一个微笑在我的心灵上留下了震撼，原来微笑就是阳光的温暖。

我家住的是父母单位分的房子，在这个院子里，全是父母的同事。其中有一个老头看上去很不顺眼，他黝黑的脸上有着一双尖锐的眼睛，，加上老了又没了牙齿 ，看上去特凶，让人看了都有些害怕。

他每天早晨都会骑自行车去拿牛奶，正好碰着我上学的时间；每天傍晚他又骑着自行车去接孙女，又正好碰到我放学的时间。我心里总想着：怎么那么倒霉，还天无绝人之路呢！每天都要碰到这讨厌的老头，遇上他那剑一样的目光，让自己的心情抹上一层灰色，就像乌云挡住了阳光。

一天，我和母亲出去，又看见了哪个老头。他骑着自行车挡在我们的前面，妈按了喇叭，可他就是不让，这让我异常生气，可妈妈对我说：“算了吧！人家是老人，让一让海阔天空，何必那么计较。”后来，我问妈妈这讨厌的老头到底什么来历，怎么那样讨厌？妈妈说，他之前是单位的一个小科长，每天都管闲事，看到不顺眼的事情就骂人，脾气很暴躁的，惹毛了他，会自找苦吃的。虽然妈妈说的时候轻描淡写，但这更证明了我的观点——他很讨厌！ 可是乌云是永远遮不住太阳的，或许心中的太阳正在悄然升起。

又一天早晨，我步行去车站，正好碰见他，他的目光碰上了我的眼睛，他微笑了。那一刻，我震撼了！原来老人的微笑就是那样慈祥，那样和蔼，温暖得快要把我融化了，我也用一个童真的笑容回报了他。

从那一刻起，我对他的看法完全改变了。从那以后，每天我都不再避而远之，而是等待他的微笑，渐渐成为习惯。

是的，我们的生活真的需要微笑。微笑是春天的阳光，是春天的新绿。心中留下了微笑的痕迹，太阳升在头顶，世界明媚而温暖。

宽容，是一个豁达的心胸，是一种难得的美德，是一份醉人的礼物，是人格魅力光环中闪闪发光的一束。

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生活需要微笑

有位诗人曾经这样写道：“你需要的话，可以拿走我的面包，可以拿走我的空气，可是别把我的微笑拿走。因为生活需要微笑，也正因为有了微笑，生活便有了生气。”

当你失意与沮丧时，不妨笑一笑，你会顿时茅塞顿开；当你遇到困难一蹶不振时，笑一下，你就会觉得精神百倍；当你忧愁苦闷时，一个微笑，会驱散你心头的阴霆。笑给人以舒畅，给人以力量，给人以觉悟。

微笑的力量是不可抵挡的。

人生道路上，面对—切悲哀和困难时，不妨试着微笑—下吧！拨开—切阴云晨雾，抛开“雾里看花，水中望月”的迷茫，迎着昔日欢笑的脚步，—路微笑走来。

微笑，给人以动力，给人以魅力，带着阳光般的笑脸去迎接人生征途中的苦难险阻。不管未来成与败，苦与乐，只要坦然去面对，总会有新的梦想展翅翱翔。

不是—切大树都甘愿被风吹倒；不是—切种子都能落地生根；不是—切梦想都情愿被折断翅膀。但有时的—个微笑就可以令时空旋转。

我们不管做什么事，都是离不开微笑的，当春光烂漫的时候，心里却丝丝忧郁，但我们不要害怕开始，生活总把我们送到起点，我们要勇敢一些，微笑面对世界。 We cant do without smiling no matter what we do.When we send it to the starting point, we have to be brave and face the world with a smile.

一些固有格局被打破了，有些时候我们面对的是陌生的局面，心里很慌张，我们真想回到从前，但我们知道，时间不可能倒退。当一个人在自己的屋里，也只有自己对这镜子沉思，从现在的一个微笑开始，让自信，自爱，自尊从外向内，从心里面凝结为坦然。

现在我们将会越到更多的变故，更多的失落，也会有更多的疑惑，更多的烦恼，更多的挫折;但是当我们面对这些困难的时候，我们带着心里的微笑，就可能改变这些困难，努力耕耘，收获果实，并提升认知，迎向幸福的彼岸。

我们知道地球上的生灵中，只有人会微笑，群体的微笑构筑和平，有时他人的一个微笑，会吧你从困难中解救出来，让你得到心灵上的安慰。

我们不可以忘记微笑，微笑可以让我们的微笑充满阳光。一个不会微笑的人可能拥有名誉，地位和金钱;但是他的内心不会是宁静的，更不会是幸福的，而在他的生命中将永远藏有遗憾。

我们往往因成功而高兴不已，往往因挫折而痛不欲生，当然，月有阴晴圆缺，人有悲欢离合。然而我们千万不能忘记微笑，我们知道只有微笑才能让我们享受到生命的可贵，超越悲观，让我们的人生更加美好。

她人的微笑，也有真假难辨，但是技术i虚伪的微笑，也不必怒目相视，这对我们来说也有一时的快乐，即使是好笑，也不能妨碍真实的微笑。微笑可以使人进步，微笑是不可战胜的，微笑是给与对手饱含怜悯的批判，相信!我们只要微笑面对所遇到的困难和挫折，我们将一定会成功。

微笑不需要学习，是每个人出生就有的。然而微笑的能力却又可能退化，如果一个人完全丧失了微笑的心情，我们应该马上把心里的自惜，自信丝丝缕缕的找回来。从一个微笑开始，再次拓宽我们的胸臆，使他人绝处逢生。

微笑吧!在每一个清晨，向着天边的第一缕阳光;微笑吧!在每一个春天，面对从身边吹过的每一缕春风!微笑吧!在每一个地方，勇敢的面对每一个困难

相信!只要我们积极的面对，从一个微笑开始，可以让我们的生活更加美好，我们离成功的脚步越来越近，我们离幸福的彼岸已经不远了。

微笑，虽然是一个不起眼的名词，但是它却起着重要的作用，人人都需要它，它成了生活中不可缺少的一部分。微笑是一缕清风，让人心旷神怡;微笑是一寸阳光，让遭遇挫折的人看到一盏心灯，给迷茫的人指明方向。生活需要微笑，可见，微笑是多么重要呀!

有的人因为是残疾人而自卑，他们觉得老天爷对他们不公，因此而认为世界并不美好，那些残疾人是多么需要微笑啊!如果你给他们一个会心的微笑，可能他们的命运就会改变。

有许多人对微笑不屑一顾，于是，他们总是严肃地去面对生活。在此，我要送给他们一句话:”生活需要微笑!”当你失意与沮丧时，不妨笑一笑，你会顿时茅塞顿开;当你遇到困难一蹶不振时，笑一下，你就会觉得精神百倍;当你忧愁苦闷时，一个微笑，会驱散你心头的不快。笑给人以舒畅，给人以力量，给人以觉悟。

海伦.凯勒在她出生十九个月的时候，因为生病，失去了宝贵的听力与视力，所以她成了一个又聋、又哑、又盲的重度残疾儿。但是，海伦.凯勒总是笑着面对生活，她并不悲观，她一次又一次地向病魔挑战。最终成了一位出色的演说家。

当我考试失利，伤心难过，悲观失望的时候，一位朋友看出了我很悲伤，她没有说什么，只是拍拍我的肩，真诚地朝我笑笑。我明白，这不是嘲讽的笑，这也不是得意的笑，这是安慰我、鼓舞我的笑。我知道了朋友的用心，她希望我以乐观的态度去面对失败，不要失落。于是，我擦干脸上的泪水，也回敬了她一个笑，这是感激的笑。朋友的笑让我永远也忘不了。

生活需要微笑，人与人之间也需要微笑，这样，你就会觉得世界是多么美好!同学们，让我们微笑着去面对生活吧!

今天真是个好天气，心情也变的好了起来，大家都笑着打招呼：“今天天气真好啊!”

妈妈和我上街买东西，可是鞋突然坏了，只好去修鞋。

到了修鞋的地方，我不禁皱了皱眉头。外面这么好的天气，可这里却阴暗潮湿，很显然，修鞋的小伙子心情不怎么好。 ，

他不耐烦的问妈妈：“哪里坏了?”妈妈并不介意：“鞋跟的地方有点松。”他接过妈妈的鞋，拿起另一双备用拖鞋“啪”的扔在地上。我感到十分气愤，我想：我们找你修鞋，给你钱，结果你服务态度这么差，显然不尊重我们，我们又不是非要在你这里修不可。当然，我没有发作。妈妈平静的穿上备用拖鞋，还说了声：“谢谢!” ，

我赶紧把妈妈拉到外面说：“这个人服务态度这么差，我们换个地方修吧。在这修，不是花钱找罪受吗?

妈妈笑了笑，说：“每个人都有心情不好的时候。”说完妈妈又进去了，剩我一个人在外面发愣。

当我再次进去时，鞋已经修好了，妈妈给了他5块钱，并微笑着说了一声：“谢谢!”那小伙子不好意思了，把鞋给妈妈时动作也轻了许多，还笑着说：“不用谢!”

我很奇怪，这是怎么一回事?于是，妈妈给我讲了一个故事。

那时候，妈妈刚毕业。一天，她因为工作上的失误，心情一直不好。有个人来找她办事，她也很不耐烦，但那个人始终微笑着。最后妈妈也不好意思了。从此以后，妈妈不管对谁，都始终微笑，所以同事都很喜欢她，办起事情也方便多了。

微笑，就是生活中的润滑油，在我们日常生活和人际交往中有着极为重要的地位。 ，

生活中需要微笑!

这世界上有一种永不凋谢的花，叫微笑。它在我们每一个人手中传递，它所触及的地方，都充满了真诚与善良，它如彩色蜡笔，给生活添上了绚丽的一笔。 There is a flower that never withered in this world, called a smile.It is passed in the hands of each of us. The place it touches is full of sincerity and kindness. It is like a colored crayon, adding a gorgeous stroke to life.

微笑之花开始了它的神奇之旅，它乘着风来到了一个已经结冰的河面上，河水已经冻结成冰，不过一切显得比往常还要活跃，充满了欢声笑语，这里已成了溜冰孩子的天下。我迫不及待地“全副武装”，整装待发，紧紧抓着妈妈的手竟出了汗。

看着身边哥哥姐姐如精灵般来回穿梭的身影，心中强大的嫉妒心作怪，甩开妈妈的手，迈开大步，结果“啪”地一声，重重地摔在了冰面上，冰上立刻出现了几条裂缝，“哇”地一声，眼泪控制不住地流下来，滴在了手上，一丝温热，风一吹，是截然相反的冰冷。

妈妈站在一米远的距离，眉头皱了一下，随后脸上出现了甜美的微笑，蹲下身来，伸出双手，鼓励我说：“妈妈不是说过吗，跌倒了要自己站起来。这冰面结实得很。我们是最坚强的，对不对?”我先是有丝犹豫，正对上母亲肯定的眼神和我所见过最美的笑容，眼泪一下子止住了，深呼吸一口气，手一撑，便站了起来，快走两步，直接扑入了妈妈的怀抱，两人噗嗤一声笑了起来。是微笑给了我勇气，竟也让我明白了遇事要沉着冷静的道理。

微笑之旅的下一站是我的校园。我有幸成为上主席台演讲的人，走上主席台的那一刻，心中的紧张与激动的心情无法言说。手脚不禁颤抖起来，我不断深呼吸，想要平复心情，终于来到话筒前，却恍如隔世，望着台下的同学和老师，脑子竟一片空白。不经意一瞥，看见我的班主任正满脸笑容地看着我，脸颊边的笑容看起来和蔼可亲，似在鼓励，似在夸奖，又似在为班里这么一个同学感到骄傲。我心中一下镇定下来，有一个声音在说“要为班级争光”。流利的朗读，正确的发音和有情感的起伏引来台下热烈的掌声。又是微笑，给了我鼓励，信念与力量。

微笑之花随处开放，在每一个人的脸上，它是酷热时的一阵清风;是寒冷时的一轮太阳;是饥饿时的一顿佳肴;是干渴时的一股清泉。在遇到困难时，微笑给予你力量;在你生病时，微笑是你精神上的支柱;在你失意时，微笑给你带来光明总之，它就是万能药，它维持着人与人之间的和谐。让你、我心连心，让生活变得更美好!

生活是一首诗，诗里有生活的哲理，

生活是一杯酒，诗里有醉人的香醇，

生活是一剂药，药里有满口的苦涩，

生活是一勺蜜，蜜里有芬芳的甘甜，

总之生活是丰富多彩的，其中蕴含着追求的艰辛、成功的喜悦、挫折的苦痛、孤独的寂寞但是，生活中少不了微笑。日常生活中，请你把嘴角上扬30度对待每个人，每个人也会祝福你。这是多么美好啊！艰辛的追求使你感到疲倦了吗？累了吗？别担心，看看周围甜蜜的微笑，又有动力了吧！

成功的喜悦让你感动了吗？骄傲了吗？向周围看看，这些甜蜜的微笑似乎在说：成功了固然开心，但是千万不能骄傲，要继续努力。

苦痛的挫折使你沮丧，伤心了吗？请不要哭泣，因为生活不需要眼泪。看看周围的伙伴，她们都虔诚的祷告上帝，让你赶快乐起来，请别让她们失望，所以来：笑一个！寂寞的孤独让你很空虚，很无聊对吧，没人对你微笑，心情落到最低谷了吧？那就朝着镜子，对自己微笑吧！对寂寞微笑吧！

微笑是笑的国度里最美丽的一个，她时而开心、时而妩媚；微笑是笑的国度里最具有力量的一个。一丝浅浅的笑，让你在黑暗中感到光明、让你在严冬中感到春的气息，让面对挫折的人感到勇气的存在，鼓舞自己继续前行。微笑使人如沐春风，微笑融化了人与人之间隔阂的坚冰，微笑拉近了人与人之间的距离。

生活需要如此，微笑的面对生活，生活也会微笑地面对你。不论你身份高贵卑贱，不论你外貌如何，用微笑装扮你自己，你永远是最迷人、最独特、最美丽的人。

永远记得这样动人的镜头：雅典奥运会上，100米男子步枪金牌得主望着徐徐升起的国旗，哭了，这泪水是甜的，这样的哭泣不是懦弱，而是微笑的另一种形式，是喜悦的表现，是生活强者的表现。

我不喜欢弱者的泪水，因为生活不需要它。我喜欢强者的微笑，因为生活需要它。微笑，如此平凡，却又如此伟大。生活亦如此平凡，却又如此伟大！

在余晖下，你的微笑闪着光点。光点洒进了我的心里，让我顿然成长。

——题记

新学期伊始，我换了一位新的语文老师。

她，梳着一个简单的马尾，干净利落;一副眼镜稳稳地架在鼻梁上;眼镜下，是一双小而有神的眼睛，充满温和却又不失几分刚气。一看就让人觉得，她这个人——不简单。

开学没多久，我便领略到了她的“功夫”。

那是一堂语文自习课，她到教室给我们布置好了任务，叫我们独自完成，待会儿她检查。布置完任务后，她便匆匆的离开了教室。

在她脚刚迈出教室门口的那一刹那，我心想：“切，肯定是老师临时有事，过来先给我们布置好任务，说不定等她回来的时候，都已经下课了呢……”

我暗暗为自己的小聪明得意，于是就胡乱通的把书看了一通，草草地完成了老师布置的任务。

为了不浪费这“大好时光”，我便肆无忌惮的说起话来，先跟同桌说，又跟前后桌说，最后觉得还不过瘾，又跟邻桌说起话来，越说越欢。寂静的教室里，充满了我们的“欢声笑语”，声音似乎掩盖了门外那双盯着我们很久的眼睛。

突然间，教室一下子安静下来，我抬头一看：老师过来了。老师走到我的跟前，对我说：“你，站起来。”我极不情愿，但又无可奈何地站起来。谁知，这一站就是一节课，站的我腿都麻了。

此后，我见到语文老师我就绕道走，我心想：“我惹不起你，我还躲不起你呀!”

第二天，语文老师把我叫到了她的办公室。

她和蔼的对我说：“我看你是好学生，好学生就应该有好学生的样子，你觉得你在自习课上说话对吗?”

她的话，如春风贯耳，我羞愧的低下了头。

这时，夕阳的余晖透过窗户，洒了过来，映在她的脸上，她微笑着对我说：“下次不要再这样了，希望你努力……”

那一刻，我豁然成长，我仿佛明白：“我们在做好自己的责任的同时，就是对他人的尊重。”

我迈着轻快的步伐走出了办公室，我的心情一下子变得开朗，充满了积极向上。我永远不会忘记，在夕阳下那个闪耀着的微笑，它引导着我，大步向前!

在余晖下的金色斑点，洒进了我的心田。在成长中，它将会化作生命的光点，照耀我前行。