Happiness in Our Work
Children, I am pleading with you to find happiness. All the world is seeking happiness, but so many are seeking it by rattling down instead of by shaking up. The happiness is in going up--in developing a greater arm, a greater mind, a greater character. Happiness is the joy of overcoming. It is the delight of an expanding consciousness. It is the cry of the eagle mounting upward. It is the proof that we are progressing. We find happiness in our work, not outside of our work.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
"O Zarathustra," said they, "gazest thou out perhaps for thy happiness?"-- "Of what account is my happiness!" answered he, "I have long ceased to strive any more for happiness, I strive for my work."--"O Zarathustra," said the animals once more, "that sayest thou as one who hath overmuch of good things. Liest thou not in a sky-blue lake of happiness?"--"Ye wags," answered Zarathustra, and smiled, "how well did ye choose the simile! But ye know also that my happiness is heavy, and not like a fluid wave of water: it presseth me and will not leave me, and is like molten pitch."--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Whether what may be called the moral or philosophical happiness of the laborious classes is increased or not, I cannot say. The seat of that species of happiness is in the mind; and there are few data to ascertain the comparative state of the mind at any two periods. Philosophical happiness is to want little. Civil or vulgar happiness is to want much, and to enjoy much.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
'From what source do you look for happiness? Do not say that you look for none? I shall not believe you. It is a search in which every human being spends an existence.'
'And the search is always in vain,' said Mr Slope. 'We look for happiness on earth, while we ought to be content to hope for it in heaven.'
'Pshaw! you preach a doctrine which you know you don't believe. It is the way with you all. If you know that there is no earthly happiness, why do you long to be a bishop or a dean?英文原著 · 《Barchester Towers》
'Happiness is the bloom that always lies on a life of true goodness,' and this gatehouse was full of the happiness that follows on and always dwells with true goodness. Goodwill cannot have more happiness till he shuts in his last pilgrim into the Celestial City, and then himself enters in after him as a shepherd after a lost sheep.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-1》
Brute animals are evidently taught cleanliness by instinct; and can there be a stronger proof of its being essentially necessary to their well-being and happiness?--But if cleanliness is necessary to the happiness of brutes, how much more so must it be to the happiness of the human race?英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
He knows how important your happiness is to me, so he's making us his brushback pitch to my son.美剧 · 《Billions》
But meaning matters more to me than happiness.美剧 · 《Billions》
The reason that nothing levers up your happiness like giving is because it puts you back in charge of the only thing that you ever really cared about-- yourself.美剧 · 《Billions》
But. if you ever decide to grapple with why you feel happiness for you can only exist light-years away or in the company of hairless 21-year-old girls, come see me.美剧 · 《Billions》