選自美國著名女作家安娜?昆德林（Anna Quindlen）在維拉諾瓦大學（Villanova University）獲得榮譽博士之后在畢業(yè)典禮上的演講。她分享了自己對真正生活的理解。
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over the water gap or the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a cheerio with her thumb and first finger.
在你追尋的生活中，你應該能在微風吹拂的海邊，聞得到一浪接一浪的海水所帶來的咸味；你應該有時間停下來，看著那紅尾鷹在海浪間盤旋；你也能觀察一名嬰兒全神貫注地繃著臉，嘗試用拇指和食指拈起一片麥片。