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标题: 1. The nature of happiness [打印本页]

作者: abc0595 时间: 2006-5-9 00:17
标题: 1. The nature of happiness

1. The nature of happiness

You may think people in such a glamorous [5^lAmErEs], fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent [in5telidVEnt]people still equate happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding[E5baidiN]emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they so not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, and expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, and profound loneliness.

The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: more times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.

作者: dahaier 时间: 2006-5-9 12:12
古龙妙语(1)

　　女人

　　▲当一个女孩子说要气死你的时候，她的意思往往就是表示她很喜欢你。

　　▲不吃饭的女人这世上也许还有好几个，不吃醋的女人却连一个也没有。

　　▲无论一个人是天生机敏还是天生勇敢，都不如天生幸运的女子。

　　▲女子看到自己喜欢的东西时，就看不到危险了。

　　▲女孩子说没有想什么的时候，心里一定有心事。

　　男人

　　▲一个男人若将一个女人当做朋友，往往就会忘记她是个女人了。

　　▲男人就像孩子，你要他听话，多少也得给他点甜头吃吃。

　　▲也许每一个能讨女人欢心的少年，都难免有点睡眠不足的。

　　▲要知道，聪明的男人总是会选个很适当的时候来装装傻的[em01][em01][em01]

作者: lsj113 时间: 2006-11-4 15:28
good article

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