爱思英语编者按：世间的许多事情都如此。当你刻意追求时，它就像一只蝴蝶一样振翅飞远；当你摒去表面的凡尘杂念，为了社会，为了他人，专心致志于一项事情的时候，那意外的收获已在悄悄地问候你。

值得你花时间体会的5条人生感悟
5 Life Lessons Worth Your Time

1. Patience and perseverance
耐心和毅力

Thomas Edison said “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.” This is a truth that I have learned in my life. We often want results to appear overnight and we give up too fast when something does not work out the way we want it to.

托马斯·爱迪生说过“天才就是百分之一的灵感加上百分之九十九的汗水。”其实，我早就在我的生活中亲身体验到了这条真理。我们往往都希望事情在短时间内就有成效，当事情不如我们的意愿时，我们常常就会过早地放弃。

When I started this blog I didn’t put much effort into it. I threw something together hoping that miraculously it will find its own readers and it will be a success. Of course that never happened. My first posts were not that great, but I worked my way to better grammar, a better writing style and better advice. Patience and perseverance were my allies in this journey. It took me almost three years to get where I am now but I have enjoyed every step of that journey.

当我开始开始写这个博客时，我没有投入太多的精力。我把许多东西都晒在这个网页上，然后期待着它能找到自己的读者并获得成功。当然了，这样的事从来没有发生过。我发布的头几篇博文都写得不好，但是我刻苦练习，力求以到位的语法、更好的写作风格和更棒的写作建议。耐心和毅力是这次旅程中的两个好伴侣，我花了将近三年的时间才取得这个博客的成功，而且我很享受我所走过的每一步。