幸福的英语作文 文档

It

is

time

that

we

all

realized

that

we

are

the

secret

to

our

own

happiness.

Happiness is a choice that we make within. God loves us and gives each

one of us the ability to fill our lives with love, joy, peace,

happiness, and oneness with Him. We need only choose to do so moment by

moment and day by day.

It doesn’t matter what our outer circumstances are either, because the

Kingdom of Heaven is within us. Don’t

spend the rest of your life

searching the world for happiness then.

Just

look

in

the

mirror

and

laugh.

Just

let

the

happiness

flow

from

your

heart,

mind,

and

soul

until

it

fills your

life

and

the

lives

of

all

those

around you.

Oh, no. Here comes another study about happiness. We can't seem to do

enough of these paeans to cheerfulness. In the last few months alone, the

British Medical Journal suggested that having a happy close friend boosts our

own odds of being happy by 25%; the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society

B: Biological

Sciences pointed to evidence that optimism and pessimism are genetically

determined; and the website , which, according to its mission

statement,

application that allows users to keep a mobile

be grateful while driving).

The latest installment comes in the form of the Gallup Healthways Well-Being

Index, a huge poll (it used a random sample of 355,000 Americans) designed

to measure people's daily well-being and describe its correlation to where they

live

and

work.

The

survey

revealed

which

U.S.

states

(and,

indeed,

which

congressional districts within those states) were the healthiest and happiest in

six categories: life satisfaction, work quality, healthy behavior, physical health,

emotional health and basic access to necessities such as food and shelter.

The

big

winner

was

Utah,

followed

by

Hawaii,

Wyoming,

Colorado

and

Minnesota.

The

state

with

the

worst

sense

of

well-being

was

West

Virginia.

Michigan,

Ohio,

Mississippi

and

Kentucky

filled

out

the

list

of

the

five worst

states.

What

are we to

conclude

from

this?

Well,

let's

see:

Utah

happens

to

have

an

unemployment rate of 4.6%, versus the national average of 7.6% (according to

January

numbers).

West

Virginia,

for

its

part,

has

one

of

the

weakest

state

economies in the country. As for the congressional districts, California's 14th,

which

includes the lush, plush Silicon Valley cities of Palo Alto and Mountain

View,

ranked

first.

The

losers:

the

coal- mining

country

of

Kentucky's

5th

District

and

New

York's

16th

District,

which

includes

the

famously

blighted

South Bronx.

The study was concerned in large part with quality-of- life issues such as access

to outdoor recreation (hence the high marks for Utah and Hawaii) and access

to affordable housing and healthcare. But even though spokesmen for the poll

may not want to put that fine a point on it -- an Associated Press report said a

Gallup researcher was

study, but suspected that some of the variations are explained by income

appears

that

Randy

Newman

may

have

been

right

when

he

sang

money

that matters.

black

and

famous,

with

money

hangin

out

the

anus,

was

an

encomium

to

inner peace.

In either case, the current economic calamity has most of us poised for some

serious

unhappiness.

Even

if

we're

lucky

enough

to

have

avoided

unhappy

friends

or

pessimistic

genes

(not

so

for

me;

when I

was small,

my

father

sat

me down and told me

Life

Saver),

chances

are

most

of

us

are

suffering

some

measure

of

financial

anxiety. So does that doom us to West Virginia levels of misery?

Possibly.

When

I

submitted

to

an

assessment

on

,

which

asked

questions

such

as

how

often

I

felt

proud

of

myself

and

what

kind

of

mood

I

was

in

most

of

the

time,

I

scored

a

rather

grim

65

out

of

a

possible

100

(though I guess if I weren't a pessimist, I'd see 65 as a passing grade). It then

suggested I do an online exercise on

I

was

asked

to

quickly

solve

a

series

of

anagrams

and

then

record

how I

felt

about myself as I attempted to do so.

As

it

happened,

the

test

made

me

feel

terrible

about

myself.

Then

I

learned

that

all

but

two

of

the

anagrams

were

unsolvable

and

that

the

exercise

was

developed to help me

the adversity

In

other

words,

I

shouldn't

have

been

so

hard

on

myself

for

erroneously

surmising that

for

back and retook the happiness test and scored a 70.

Of

course,

even

if

I

were

one

of

the

few

people

who

appear

to

be thriving

in

this

economy

--

like

oil

company

executives

and,

rather

Dickensianly,

shoe

repairers (people are getting their shoes fixed rather than buying new ones) --

I'd probably still get a middling score on that test. And that's not just because

the

well-being

index

ranked

my

congressional

district

416th

out

of

435

(I

attribute

that

entirely

to

the

overcrowded

parking

lot

at

Trader

Joe's).

It's

because ultimately my father was right.

If

we

believe

the

results

of

many

of

these

studies,

which

suggest

that

life

satisfaction

is mostly a matter of perception, then happiness

is

an

illusion. It

also happens to be an illusion that can seem a lot more real when paired with

cash.

Now

excuse

me

while

I

drop

$$200

on

an

iPhone

so

I

can

start

that

mobile gratitude journal.

Work and happiness

Whether

work

should

be

placed

among

the

causes

of

happiness

or

among

the

causes

of

unhappiness

may

perhaps

be

regarded

as

doubtful

question.

There

is

certainly

much work which

is

exceedingly

irksome,

and an excess of work

is always

very painful. I

think,

however, that, provided

work

is

not excessive

in amount, even

the

dullest

work

is

to

most

people

less

painful

than

idleness.

There

are

in

work

all

grades,

from

mere

relief

of

tedium

up

to

the

profoundest

delights,

according

to

the

nature of the work and the abilities of the worker. Most of the work that

most people

have to do is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages.

To begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what

one should do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to

their

own

choice,

are

at

a

loss

to

think

of

anything

sufficiently

pleasant

to

be

worth

doing.

Moreover,

the

exercise

of

choice

is

in

itself

tiresome.

Except

to

people

with

unusual

initiative,

it

is positively agreeable

to be

told what to do at each

hour of

the

day

,

provided

the

orders

are

not

too

unpleasant,

most

of

the

idle

rich

suffer

unspeakable

boredom

as

the

price

of

their

freedom

from

drudgery

.

Accordingly

the

more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor, while rich women

for

the

most

part

keep

themselves

busy

with

innumerable

trifles

of

whose

earth-shaking importance they are firmly persuaded.

工作与幸福

工作究竟应算作幸福的根源，还是不幸的根源，这也许还是个疑问。当然，

有许多工作极其令人厌烦，

工作负担过重也总是令人十分痛苦。

但我认为，

假如

工作负担不是过重，

对大多数人来说，

即时是最乏味的工作也没有无所事事那样

痛苦 。

根据工作性质和工作者的能力，

可以把工作分成各种层次，< /p>

从单单是排遣

烦闷一直到能带来深层快乐。

大多数人必须做的大多数工作本身并没有趣味，

但

即便是这样 的工作也有一些极大的好处。首先，它占去了一天中相当多的时间，

使你不必拿主意自己 该干什么。

在可以自由选择如何消磨时间的时候，

大多数人

都茫然不知所措，

想不出一件很有意思的事值得去做。

再说作出选择本身就是一

件麻烦事。

除了对极有主见 的人而外，

听命于他人每天中的每个小时做什么完全

是一件惬意 的事，

只要指令并不极为令人生厌就行。

多数有闲的富人，

作为摆脱

艰辛工作的代价，

忍受着难以形容 的无聊。

因此，

较明智的有钱男人几乎就像没

< br>钱那样勤奋工作，

而富有的女人通常忙于武术鸡毛蒜皮的小事，

< br>并深信这些琐事

有着惊天动地的重要性。

The secret of happiness

Once there lived a king of great strength and wealth. Y

et he was not happy

. He told his

servants to find him things to make him happy

, but each came back saying,” Noting in

the world can

match the wonderful

things

you

have already

.”

Then

in that

land, there

lived a poor

man with a patch over one eye and a crutch to

help

him walk. Although

he

had

little,

he

was always

happy

.When

the king

heard of this,

he asked

the

man to

teach him his secret.

never push.

the

man replied,” and

I

never rush. Most of all,

I

never wish

for too

much.” Then he smiled and was

gone.

If

you would

make a

man

happy

, do

not

add to

his possessions but

subtract

from

his

desires.

快乐的秘诀

从前有一位国王，

很有权力和财富，

然而他并不快乐。

他告诉仆人去找可以使他

快乐的东西，但是每个回来的人都说：

“世界上没有什么比得上你已经拥有的极

好的东西。

”当时那个国家住着一个穷人，他一个眼睛戴着眼罩并靠 拐杖走路。

虽然他拥有的很少，

但是他总是很快乐。