2015-2016學(xué)年高中英語 Unit2 What is happiness to you？Quotations about Happiness素材 牛津譯林版選修6

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1、Quotations about Happiness The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.? You have to catch it yourself.? ~Benjamin Franklin Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.? ~Jacques Prévert If you want to be happy, be.?

2、~Leo Tolstoy Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.? ~Palmer Sondreal Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.? ~Robert Anthony The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.? ~Mark Twain If only we'd stop try

3、ing to be happy we could have a pretty good time.? ~Edith Wharton Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place.? But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.? ~E.L. Konigsburg Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.? ~Cynth

4、ia Nelms Happiness is always a by-product.? It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.? But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your

5、 own brand of unhappiness.? ~Robertson Davies Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.? ~Norm Papernick Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.? If he counted them up as he ought to, he wo

6、uld see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.? ~Fyodor Dostoevsky What a wonderful life I've had!? I only wish I'd realized it sooner.? ~Colette The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.? ~James Openheim Happiness often sneaks in

7、 through a door you didn't know you left open.? ~John Barrymore "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think.? Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he di

8、dn't know what it was called.? ~A.A. Milne People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.? Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.? ~H. Jackson Browne It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.? Poverty and wealth have both failed.?

9、~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.? The way it actually works is the reverse.? You must first be who you really are, then do what you need

10、to do, in order to have what you want.? ~Margaret Young Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.? ~St. Augustine Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two things to ai

11、m at in life:? first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.? Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.? ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931 This is my "depressed stance."? When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand.? The worst thing you can do is

12、straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better.? If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.? ~Charlie Brown Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~William Wordsworth,

13、1806 Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.? ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.? ~Abraham Lincoln Happiness is a form of courage.? ~Holbro

14、ok Jackson We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.? ~Jean de La Bruyere Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.? ~Christian Nestell Bovee We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a res

15、ult of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.? ~Frederick Keonig Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.? ~Emily Logan Decens It's never too late to have a happy childhood.? ~Berke Breathed Happiness is the soundtrack of my l

16、ife.? ~Grey Livingston Happiness?? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.? ~Albert Schweitzer Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.? ~Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is a direction, not a place.? ~Sydney J. Harris Of all the things you wear, your expression is the

17、most important.? ~Janet Lane A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.? ~Author Unknown If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.? If you want to be happy, practice compassion.? ~Dalai Lama Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the f

18、lower.? ~Author Unknown There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.? ~Lady Blessington The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.? ~Author Unknown A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.? ~Bernard de Fontenelle Is it not clear, however, that bliss and

19、 envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.? ~Immanuel Kant Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.? ~Johann Pestalozzi He is rich or poor according

20、to what he is, not according to what he has.? ~Henry Ward Beecher Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.? ~Sigmund Freud There are some days when I

21、 think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.? ~Salvador Dali The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.? ~George Bernard Shaw Real ela

22、tion is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.? ~Doug Larson We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.? ~Walter Savage Landor The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.? ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

23、 If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.? ~Bertrand Russell The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.?

24、~Doug Larson Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world.? Don't go through life creaking.? ~H.W. Byles What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.? ~Kitty O'Neill Collins My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.? ~William Shakespeare As

25、k yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.? ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873 We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The happiness which is lacking makes one think ev

26、en the happiness one has unbearable.? ~Joseph Roux As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.? ~Andrew Delbanco Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.? ~A

27、uthor Unknown Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.? ~Author Unknown So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.? ~Booth Tarkington Jumping for joy is good exercise.? ~Author Unknown She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.? ~Rob Thomas, "3?A.M."

28、 Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.? ~Gretta Brooker Palmer Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.? ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lo

29、se. ~Colley Cibber When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.? ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its

30、 form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.? ~Charles L. Morgan Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.? ~Iris Murdoch Happiness is... usually a

31、ttributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.? ~Thomas Szasz When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.? ~Niccolo Machiavelli You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.? ~Author Unknown The happines

32、s of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.? ~Ernest Dimnet One joy scatters a hundred griefs.? ~Chinese Proverb We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth witho

33、ut producing it.? ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898 One should be either sad or joyful.? Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.? ~Eugene O'Neill A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.? ~Seneca One filled with joy preaches without preaching.? ~Mother Teresa Misery

34、is almost always the result of thinking.? ~Joseph Joubert My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.? ~Thornton Wilder Be happy.? It's one way of being wise.? ~Colette Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard

35、's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.? ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.? ~William Saroyan People don't notice whether it's winter or

36、summer when they're happy.? ~Anton Chekhov Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.? ~Douglas Jerrold Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.? ~Don Herold If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

37、? ~Taisen Deshimaru It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.? ~Georges Duhamel If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your

38、success.? All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.? ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.? ~J.D. Salinger T

39、he only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was - or wasn't.? ~D.H. Mondfleur Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. ~Emily Dickinson Happiness is a function of accepting what is.? ~Werner E

40、rhard Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.? ~Maxim Gorky Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.? ~John Stuart Mill, Utilita

41、rianism, 1863 Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.? ~Joseph Addison Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought.? Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.? ~Samuel Johnson There

42、can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.? ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.? ~Robert Brault In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain a

43、nd unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?? ~Leslie Caron On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.? ~William R. Inge I hate being happy.? It pisses me off.? Because I know if I try to grab

44、 it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes.? And I hate just looking.? I always try to grab.? ~D.H. Mondfleur To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.? ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in har

45、mony.? ~Mahatma Gandhi When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land.? ~Grey Livingston Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth:? we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.? ~Mig

46、non McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.? ~Don Marquis If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.? ~Antoi

47、ne de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.? ~Guilaume Apollinaire When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive.? Call him a breathing corpse.? ~Sophocles Man

48、y things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.? ~Hosea Ballou To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks

49、a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.? ~Charles Caleb Colton Some pursue happiness, others create it.? ~Author Unknown The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.? ~Epictetus

50、 Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.? ~Author Unknown Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.? ~George Bernard Shaw Happiness is the natural flower of duty.? ~Phillips Brooks

51、 But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?? ~Albert Camus Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.? ~Thomas Jefferson We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really ha

52、ppy is something to be enthusiastic about.? ~Charles Kingsley You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.? ~Lavetta Sue Wegman It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.? ~Jean Ingelow If you obser

53、ve a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.? He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.? He will no

54、t be striving for it as a goal in itself.? He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.? ~W. Beran Wolfe You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.? You will never live if you are looking for

55、 the meaning of life.? ~Albert Camus Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.? ~Norman Bradburn If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost sp

56、ectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.? ~Josh Billings Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.? ~William Feather Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand i

57、n the drill.? ~Johnny Carson I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.? I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.? ~J.D. Salinger Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.? ~Fran?ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Let us be grat

58、eful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.? ~Marcel Proust For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.? ~Author Unknown To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.? ~Bertrand Ru

59、ssell, The Conquest of Happiness Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.? ~Mildred Barthel [U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.? ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829 Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks

60、 in length.? ~Robert Frost The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.? ~Author Unknown Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.? ~Margaret Lee Runbeck Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthle

61、ss to society.? ~Charles Gow All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.? ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars,

62、1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.? ~Robert S. Lynd I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot:? they amount to fourteen.? ~Abd-El-Raham The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:? if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.? ~C.P. Snow Happiness:? an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.? ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary