通往幸福的旅途
Our Pursuit of Happiness
·通往幸福的旅途 佚名
Our Pursuit of Happiness Anonymous
·幸 福 佚名
Happiness Anonymous
·收集幸福 佚名
Happiness Is All around Us Anonymous
·我自逍遥 佚名
The Joy of Living Anonymous
·让你幸福的七个建议 佚名
Good Advice to Help You Live Happily Anonymous
·幸福在哪里 佚名
Where Is Happiness Anonymous
·财富和幸福 佚名
Does Money Buy Happiness Anonymous
·爱的两个世界 卡森·麦卡勒斯
The Lover and the BelovedCarson McCullers
·抵达快乐之境 佚名
Ten Ways to Happiness Anonymous
·选择乐观 佚名
Choose Optimism Anonymous
·直面任务，享受生活 佚名
Savor Your Just Rewards Anonymous
·我们为什么不快乐 佚名
Don’t Let Happiness Run away from Us Anonymous
·快乐由你决定 佚名
A Simple Truth about Happiness Anonymous
·生命的韵律美 佚名
Human Life Like a Poem Anonymous
·一切刚开始 佚名
We’re Just Beginning Anonymous
·五条基本法则 佚名
Five Simple Rules Anonymous
·春 佚名
Spring Anonymous
·欢乐是一门哲学 奥里森·马登
What Vanderbilt Paid for Twelve Laughs Orison Mardon
·婚姻、爱和自由可以并存吗 佚名
Marriage， Love and Freedom Anonymous
·醇美九月 哈尔·勃兰德
Sweet September Hal Borland
·上天赐予的幸福 佚名
Blessed Anonymous
·播种幸福 佚名
How to Grow Happiness Anonymous
·那片羽毛随风飘散 佚名
Feather in the Wind Anonymous
·轻松精彩的生活 佚名
Just in Time， Thoroughly， with Reserve Anonymous
爱源于微笑
Love from Smile
·友情永无止境 佚名
A Forever Friend Anonymous
·隽语美人 佚名
Beauty Anonymous
·去伪存真 佚名
Peeling away Artifice for the Pure Original Anonymous
·微笑的力量 佚名
The Smile Anonymous
·朋友是与你共享生命的人 卡里·纪伯伦
On Friendship Kahlil Gibran
·爱源于微笑 佚名
Love from Smile Anonymous
·恶作剧 佚名
A Trick Anonymous
·孩子的祈祷 佚名
A Child’s Prayer Anonymous
·蝙蝠侠法兰基 佚名
Frankie’s Imagination Anonymous
·凡事有定时 佚名
Always Changing Anonymous
·一杯茶 佚名
A Cup of Tea Anonymous
·中庸之道 巴尔塔沙·葛拉西安
The Golden Mean Balthasar Gracian
·减压贴士条 佚名
Ways to Minimize Stress Anonymous
·暮年垂钓 佚名
The Angler Anonymous
·青春通往未来的两条路 佚名
The Two Roads Anonymous
·失落的一角 佚名
The Missing Piece Anonymous
失败使人看到希望
Learning from Failure
·领悟人生 佚名
Word of Wisdom Anonymous
·适合的才是最好的 威廉·黑兹利特
uit Is Best William Hazlitt
·暮年之时 伯特兰·罗素
How to Grow Old Bertrand Russell
·韧性的力量 佚名
The Lesson of the Bamboo Trees Anonymous
·失败的谈话者 罗伯特·林德
On Being a Bore Robert Lynd
·以眼交流 佚名
Eyes Can Speak Anonymous
·云 朵 佚名
Clouds Anonymous
·窗 佚名
A Room with a View Anonymous
·慷慨的乐趣 卡里·纪伯伦
On Giving Kahlil Gibran
·致年轻人 佚名
Advice to Youth Anonymous
·失败使人看到希望 佚名
Learning from Failure Anonymous
·成功的个性 佚名
What Successful People Have in Common Anonymous
·成功并不难 佚名
The Principle of Success Anonymous
·勇气十足 塞隆·Q. 迪蒙
Concentrate on Courage Theron Q. Dumont
·你是赢家吗 穆里尔·詹姆斯 多萝西·琼基瓦德
Born to Win Muriel James Dorothy Jongeward
·你的房子里有什么 卡里·纪伯伦
On Houses Kahlil Gibran
·以步代车 佚名
The Pleasure of Walking Anonymous
·橘子的品质 艾伦·亚历山大·米尔恩
Golden Fruit A. A. Milne
·美妙感觉 丹尼斯·斯科菲尔德
The Good Feeling Deniece Schofield
·白色的幻想 佚名
Feeling in Snow Anonymous
·一生最大的收获 佚名
Catch of a Lifetime Anonymous
·非走不可的弯路 佚名
The Tortuous Path One Has to Take Anonymous
·错了就坦诚地承认吧 戴尔·卡耐基
If You’re Wrong， Admit It Dale Carnegie
·对你有益的错误 戴夫·鲍尔奇
Good Mistakes Dave Balch
內容試閱：
通往幸福的旅途
Our Pursuit of Happiness
佚名 ／ Anonymous
We chase after it, when it is waiting all about us.
“Are you happy?” I asked my brother, Lan, one day. “Yes. No. It
depends on what you mean.” he said.
“Then tell me,” I asked, “when was the last time you think you
were happy?”
“April 1967.” he said.
It served me right for putting a serious question to someone who
has joked his way through life. But Lan’s answer reminded me that
when we think about happiness, we usually think of something
extraordinary, a pinnacleof sheer delight—and those pinnacles seem
to get rarer the older we get.
For a child, happiness has a magical quality. I remember making
hide-outs in newly cut hay, playing cops and robbers in the woods,
getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also
experience lows, but their delight at such peaks of pleasure as
winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved.
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly
it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love, popularity and
whether that zit will clear up before a promnight. I can still feel
the agony of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else
was going to. But I also recall the ecstasy of being plucked from
obscurity at another event to dance with a John Travolta
look-alike.
In adulthood the things that bring profound joy—birth, love,
marriage also—bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may
not last, sex isn’t always good, loved ones die. For adults,
happiness is complicated.
My dictionary defines happy as “lucky” or “fortunate,” but
I
think a better definition of happiness is “the capacity for
enjoyment.”
The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy
to overlook the pleasure we get from loving and being loved, the
company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even
good health.
I added up my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First there
was sheer blisswhen I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to
myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I
love. When the kids came home, I enjoyed their noise after the
quiet of the day.
Later, peace descendedagain, and my husband and I enjoyed another
pleasure—intimacy. Sometimes just the knowledge that he wants me
can bring me joy.
You never know where happiness will turn up next. When I asked
friends what makes them happy, some mentioned seemingly
insignificant moments. “I hate shopping,” one friend said. “but
there’s
a clerk who always chats and really cheers me up.” Another friend
loves the telephone “Every time it rings, I know someone is
thinking about me.”
I get a thrill from driving. One day I stopped to let a school
bus turn onto a side road. The driver grinned and gave me thumbs up
sign. We were two allies in a world of mad motorists. It made me
smile.
We all experience moments like these. Too few of us register them
as happiness.
Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a blend of
enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I doubt that my
great-grandmother, who raised 14 children and took in washing, had
much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family,
and maybe this was what fulfilled her. If she was happy with what
she had, perhaps it was because she didn’t expect life to be very
different.
We, on the other hand, with so many choices and such pressure to
succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we
“gotta have.” We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that
it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equate it with wealth
and success, without noticing that the people who have those things
aren’t necessarily happier.
While happiness may be more complex for us, the solution is the
same as ever. Happiness isn’t about what happens to us—it’s about
how we perceive what happens to us. It’s the knackof finding a
positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge.
It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do
possess.
我们四处追逐幸福，幸福其实就在我们身边。一天，我问哥哥伊恩：“你感到幸福吗？”他回答说：“可以说幸福，也可以说不幸福，这要看你指什么了。”“那你告诉我，”我说，“最近一次你感到幸福是什么时候？”
“1967年4月。”他答道。
我真不该对一个游戏生活的人提出这么严肃的问题。但伊恩的回答给了我一个启示：我们想到的幸福时刻通常是一些非同寻常的事，一种纯粹的快乐——但是随着年龄的增长，这种快乐好像越来越少了。
对一个孩子来说，幸福有着梦幻般的色彩。记得我曾在新鲜的干草丛中捉迷藏，在树林里玩“警察与小偷”，在学校的戏剧里扮演有台词的角色。当然，孩子也有情绪低落的时候。但是，因为赢得一场比赛，或得了一辆新车，他们会毫不掩饰地快乐到极点。
到了青少年时期，幸福观逐渐转变。突然间，幸福就有了前提，你开始关注情绪，是否有爱，是否出名，甚至脸上的青春痘能否在舞会前消失。我清楚地记得，大家都去参加一个舞会，而我未被邀请时的痛苦。但也记得，在另一次活动中，与一个貌似约翰?特拉沃尔塔的人共舞，带给一个默默无闻的小人物的那种狂喜。
成年后，心灵深处最令人喜悦的是生育和爱情，婚姻同时也带来了责任和安逸。爱情可能会消逝，性爱也不总是如意，心爱的人可能会死去。对于成人来说，幸福很复杂。
字典里幸福的定义是“幸运”或“好运”，但我认为幸福更好的定义是“感受快乐的能力”，越知足越常乐。但是，爱与被爱，友人相伴，简单的生活，甚至健康的体魄，这些细碎的快乐很容易被我们忽视。
我重温了一下昨日的幸福时光，我把最后一个午餐盒饭准备好，整个家就属于我一个人了。然后，我写作，整个上午都没人打扰，我很快乐。孩子们回到家，我又享受着寂静一天后的热闹。
不久，宁静再次降临，我和丈夫享受另一种快乐——亲热。有时候，只要想到他需要我，就能给我带来快乐。
你永远不会知道幸福下一次会在什么时候出现。当我问起朋友，什么能给他们带来幸福时，有些人会提到一些看似微不足道的小事。“我讨厌购物，”一个朋友说，“但有些健谈的售货员的确令我很开心。”另一个朋友喜欢接电话，“每次电话一响，我就知道有人想我了。”
我喜欢开车的刺激。一天，我停下来，让一辆学校班车拐到路边。那个司机咧嘴一笑，会意地竖起大拇指。到处都是疯狂的飙车族，而我们俩是另类。我笑了起来。
我们都有过类似的经历，但很少有人能意识到这就是幸福。
心理学家告诉我们，幸福既需要愉快的休闲时间，也需要满意的工作。我的曾祖母养育了14个孩子，还要给别人洗衣服，做其他一些家务杂活。这两样东西她都没有，但她有来自各方向的亲密的朋友和一个和睦的家。或许，这已使她很满足了。如果说她因自己拥有的一切感到幸福，或许是因为她并不希望生活是另一番样子。
另一方面，面对太多的选择在各个方面都想成功，让我们把幸福变成“必须得到”的一种东西。我们自私地以为我们有“权”得到它，这也是我们痛苦的根源。所以我们去追求幸福，并将它同财富和成功联系起来，而没有意识到拥有它的人并不一定更幸福。
对我们来说，尽管每个人对幸福的理解不同，但是幸福的含义是从来不变的。幸福不是发生在我们周围的事——而是我们如何去看待周围发生的事。秘诀就在于，我们以积极的心态面对逆境，变压力为动力。幸福并不是祈求我们所没有的，而是享受我们所拥有的。
心灵小语
幸福是什么呢？幸福就是每天可以看到阳光，可以看到爱人微笑的脸庞，心里就会暖暖的……
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pinnacle [''pin?l]n. 顶峰；顶点；极点例 This computer represents the
pinnacle of artificial intelligence. 这台计算机代表了人工智能的最高水平。
prom [pr?m]n. 舞会例 Will you go to the prom with me? 你愿意和我去舞会吗？
bliss [blis]n. 极乐；福气例 Our life was unadulterated bliss.
我们的生活幸福极了。
descend [di''send]v. 下来；下去；下降例 Tears descend her cheeks. 她泪落两颊。
我们四处追逐幸福，幸福其实就在我们身边。
译
对一个孩子来说，幸福有着梦幻般的色彩。
译
我们去追求幸福，并将它同财富和成功联系起来，而没有意识到拥有它的人并不一定更幸福。
译
It depends on what you mean. depend on：依赖；依靠；信赖
造
Love, popularity and whether that zit will clear up before prom
night. clear up：把……收拾整齐；治疗；处理；消除
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