“幸福”诠释 说到你心坎里

James M. Barrie:

　　Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

　　James Oppenheim:

　　The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

　　John Barrymore:

　　Happiness often sneaks¹ in through a door you didn't know you left open.

　　John Milton:

　　The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

　　Kalidasa:

　　Listen to the Exhortation² of the Dawn!

　　Look to this Day!

　　For it is Life, the very Life of Life.

　　In its brief course lie all the

　　Verities³ and Realities of your Existence.

　　The Bliss⁴ of Growth,

　　The Glory of Action,

　　The Splendor⁵ of Beauty;

　　For Yesterday is but a Dream,

　　And To-morrow is only a Vision;

　　But To-day well lived makes

　　Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,

　　And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

　　Look well therefore to this Day!

　　Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

　　Kin⁶ Hubbard:

　　It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.

　　Leo Buscaglia:

　　What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

　　Ludwig Wittgenstein:

　　I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

　　M. Scott Peck:

　　The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort⁷, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

　　Marcel Proust:

　　Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

　　Margaret Bonnano:

　　It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Sanity⁸ and happiness are an impossible combination.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Happiness is a Swedish sunset —— it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

　　Mark Twain:

　　The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous⁹ people.

　　Martha Washington:

　　The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions¹⁰, not our circumstances.

　　Mohandas K. Gandhi:

　　Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

　　Nathaniel Hawthorne:

　　Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

　　Norman MacEwan:

　　Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

　　Oliver Wendell Holmes:

　　The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived¹¹ from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

　　Pearl S. Buck¹²:

　　Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

　　Peyton Conway March:

　　There is a wonderful mythical¹³ law of nature that the three things we crave¹⁴ most in life —— happiness, freedom, and peace of mind —— are always attained¹⁵ by giving them to someone else.

　　Ralph Waldo Emerson:

　　To fill the hour —— that is happiness.

　　Ramona L. Anderson:

　　People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions¹⁶, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony¹⁷ is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

　　Robert Heinlein:

　　Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

　　Robert Louis Stevenson:

　　There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous¹⁸ benefits upon the world.

　　Sophocles:

　　Wisdom is the supreme¹⁹ part of happiness.

　　Susan B. Anthony:

　　Independence is happiness.

　　Theodor Fontane:

　　Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second —— and best —— in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

　　Thich Nhat Hanh:

　　Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

　　Thomas Jefferson:

　　The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom²⁰ of my family.

　　Thomas Jefferson:

　　But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent²¹ arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

　　Willa Cather:

　　That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great

1 sneaks   

abbr.sneakers (tennis shoes) 胶底运动鞋（网球鞋）v.潜行( sneak的第三人称单数 )；偷偷溜走；（儿童向成人）打小报告；告状

参考例句：

• Typhoid fever sneaks in when sanitation fails. 环境卫生搞不好，伤寒就会乘虚而入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Honest boys scorn sneaks and liars. 诚实的人看不起狡诈和撒谎的人。 来自辞典例句

2 exhortation   

n.劝告，规劝

参考例句：

• After repeated exhortation by his comrades,he finally straightened out his thinking.经过同志们再三劝导，他终于想通了。
• Foreign funds alone are clearly not enough,nor are exhortations to reform.光有外资显然不够，只是劝告人们进行改革也不行。

3 verities   

n.真实( verity的名词复数 )；事实；真理；真实的陈述

参考例句：

• the eternal verities of life 生命永恒的真理

4 bliss   

n.狂喜，福佑，天赐的福

参考例句：

• It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。
• He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴，因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。

5 splendor   

n.光彩；壮丽，华丽；显赫，辉煌

参考例句：

• Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。
• All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

6 kin   

n.家族，亲属，血缘关系；adj.亲属关系的，同类的

参考例句：

• He comes of good kin.他出身好。
• She has gone to live with her husband's kin.她住到丈夫的亲戚家里去了。

7 discomfort   

n.不舒服，不安，难过，困难，不方便

参考例句：

• One has to bear a little discomfort while travelling.旅行中总要忍受一点不便。
• She turned red with discomfort when the teacher spoke.老师讲话时她不好意思地红着脸。

8 sanity   

n.心智健全，神智正常，判断正确

参考例句：

• I doubt the sanity of such a plan.我怀疑这个计划是否明智。
• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。

9 virtuous   

adj.有品德的，善良的，贞洁的，有效力的

参考例句：

• She was such a virtuous woman that everybody respected her.她是个有道德的女性，人人都尊敬她。
• My uncle is always proud of having a virtuous wife.叔叔一直为娶到一位贤德的妻子而骄傲。

10 dispositions   

安排( disposition的名词复数 )； 倾向； （财产、金钱的）处置； 气质

参考例句：

• We got out some information about the enemy's dispositions from the captured enemy officer. 我们从捕获的敌军官那里问出一些有关敌军部署的情况。
• Elasticity, solubility, inflammability are paradigm cases of dispositions in natural objects. 伸缩性、可缩性、易燃性是天然物体倾向性的范例。

11 derived   

vi.起源；由来；衍生；导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 )；（从…中）得到获得；源于；（从…中）提取

参考例句：

• Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 buck   

n.雄鹿，雄兔；v.马离地跳跃

参考例句：

• The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
• The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。

13 mythical   

adj.神话的；虚构的；想像的

参考例句：

• Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认，他是一个神话般的人物。
• Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。

14 crave   

vt.渴望得到，迫切需要，恳求，请求

参考例句：

• Many young children crave attention.许多小孩子渴望得到关心。
• You may be craving for some fresh air.你可能很想呼吸呼吸新鲜空气。

15 attained   

（通常经过努力）实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 )； 达到； 获得； 达到（某年龄、水平、状况）

参考例句：

• She has attained the degree of Master of Arts. 她已获得文学硕士学位。
• Lu Hsun attained a high position in the republic of letters. 鲁迅在文坛上获得崇高的地位。

16 addictions   

瘾( addiction的名词复数 )； 吸毒成瘾； 沉溺； 癖好

参考例句：

• He has removed the stigma of drug addictions. 他已经洗去吸毒的污点了。
• Intelligent people are good at using reason to control excessive addictions. 智慧的人善于用理性来控制过度的嗜欲。

17 irony   

n.反语，冷嘲；具有讽刺意味的事，嘲弄

参考例句：

• She said to him with slight irony.她略带嘲讽地对他说。
• In her voice we could sense a certain tinge of irony.从她的声音里我们可以感到某种讥讽的意味。

18 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

19 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

20 bosom   

n.胸，胸部；胸怀；内心；adj.亲密的

参考例句：

• She drew a little book from her bosom.她从怀里取出一本小册子。
• A dark jealousy stirred in his bosom.他内心生出一阵恶毒的嫉妒。

21 benevolent   

adj.仁慈的，乐善好施的

参考例句：

• His benevolent nature prevented him from refusing any beggar who accosted him.他乐善好施的本性使他不会拒绝走上前向他行乞的任何一个乞丐。
• He was a benevolent old man and he wouldn't hurt a fly.他是一个仁慈的老人，连只苍蝇都不愿伤害。