When my daughter was born, she started screaming and crying as all babies do. But the next thing she did I will never _________ —she squeezed my _________and smiled. It was a _________ that instantly turned me to a one hundred twenty-five pound pile of mush. Babies _________ this world with more to teach us than we can ever teach them. They teach us _________, a new more beautiful kind of love, fear, self-control and happiness. The meaning of _________ is right there, in their smiles. They can’t talk very well. But they can smile, a beautiful _________ smile.

It might seem _________ to carry a smile all the time, but if I take a _________and just think “I’m happy.” Even when I am __________ overwhelmed with my school work, job and my family, __________ that, I can start to feel the corners of my __________ turn upward. Positive thinking can go a long way in helping to __________ my goal in life, so I smile more.

I remind myself of a ________ I was told by my mother. It was about two boys who were __________ put in a barn __________ a shovel (铲子) and told to shovel an enormous pile of horse manure. One boy was disgusted and didn’t want to do it. The other smiled and started shoveling like there was no tomorrow. The disgusted boy asked, “How can you be so __________? Isn’t this horrible?” The boy still smiling __________, “With all this horse poop there has to be a pony somewhere!”

As long as you can find anything __________ to turn something bad into something you can enjoy, you have started to __________ the true meaning of life.

I stopped to watch my little girl busy playing in her room. In one hand was a plastic phone; in the other a toy broom. I listened as she was speaking to her make-believe(假想的) little friend and I’ll never forget the words she said, even though it was_____.

She said, “Jane’s in the corner because she’s not been very   ____. She didn’t listen to a word I said or do the things she should.” In the corner I saw her baby doll all dressed in lace and pink. It was clear she’d been put to sit        _______and think.

My daughter continued her “______”, as I sat down on the floor. She said, “I’m all___up. I just don’t know what to do with her any more. She cries whenever I have to work and wants to play _______, too. She never lets me do the things that I just have to do. She tries to help me with the dishes, but her arms just cannot_____. And she doesn’t know how to fold towels. I don’t have the_____to teach. I have a lot of work to do and a big house to keep clean. I don’t have the time to sit and play — Do you see what I _____?”

And that day I thought a lot about making some   ____in my life, as I listened to her words that cut me like a knife. I hadn’t bee n paying enough ______to what I hold most dear. I’d been caught up in responsibilities that increased over the years.

But now my _______has changed, because, in my heart, I realize that I’ve seen the world in a different light_____my little darling’s eyes. So, let the cobwebs(蜘蛛网) ______the corners and the dust rabbit rule the floor. I’m not going to worry about keeping up with them any more.

I’m going to fill the house with______of a child and her mother, for we are granted only one childhood, and we will never get another.

Life is meant to be lived. No excuses. No reservations. No holding back.

An inspiring story about violinist Fritz · Kreisler tells how he once _________ a beautiful violin he wanted to acquire. When he finally _________ the money for the violin, he returned to buy it and learned that it had already been sold to a(n)_________.

He went to the new owner’s home in order to try to _________ him to sell the violin. But the collector said it was one of his _________ possessions and he could not let it go.

Disappointed Kreisler turned to leave, but then _________ a favour. “May I play the instrument once more _________ it is placed to silence？”

_________ was given and the great musician began to play. The violin sang out a piece of quality music, so _________ that the collector himself could only listen in wonderment. “I have no __________ to keep that to myself.” he said after the musician finished. “The violin is yours, Mr. Kreisler. Take it into the world, and let people __________ it.”

William Arthur Ward said, “If you believe in prayer, pray; if you believe in serving, serve; if you believe in giving, give.” For you and I are fine violin—our music is __________ to be heard.

I want to live my life that way—to take it into the world and live it __________. I’d rather burn out than rust out(锈尽). I’d rather be used up than die not having done __________ I can.

I’m not talking about __________ ourselves out on over-activity. Happiness is __________ found in excessive(过度) busyness. But it is found in __________ our lives in others. Say yes when asked for a hand. Volunteer some time for a worthwhile organization and __________ an hour with a lonely relative.

In the end, I know that my __________ is not only about my ability or my inability. It is about my__________. My life is meant to be lived.