From my point of view, being in a good mood anytime and anywhere is the first thing for those who want to be happy. There is an old saying going like this, "happy is he who is content." I can't agree with it any more. I still remember a story my mother told me when I was a child. A millionaire tried every means to seek after pleasure but to feel unhappy. It's not unique, but has its counterpart that poor men to whose name not having a thing always feel happy. Why are they so different? The answer is that the rich is being thinking how he can gain more while the poor is satisfied with what he owns at hand-health, freedom, love and so on.
Furthermore, love makes great difference to happiness. If you have love in your heart, you will have happiness in your life. Love consists of two parts, one is to love others, and the other is to be loved by others. LeiFeng set a good example for all of us. He served the people wholeheartedly until the last minute of his life. He regarded serving the people as the happiest thing. There are numbers of similar inspirational stories to be found. In addition, being loved by others can also lead you to happiness. Courage from your parents when frustrated, care from your lover when ill, help from your friends when in trouble… all of these will make you the happiest person in the world.
The last but not least is to act happily. Putting on a happy face and
thinking interesting things are helpful to trigger happy feelings.
Wile happiness is precious, it is easy to get.
1. What is happiness? List some popular sayings on the definition of happiness.
2. What do you think are the ingredients of happiness? Make a list of the determinants of happiness.
What exactly makes a person happy? This question has been much of speculation. Commonsense hypotheses about the roots of happiness abound. For example, you have no doubt heard that money cannot buy happiness. But do you believe it? A television commercial says, "If you have got your health, you've got just everything." Is health indeed the key? What if you're healthy but poor, unemployed, and lonely? We often hear about the joys of parenthood, the joys of youth, and joys of the simple, rural life. Are these the factors that promote happiness? What Isn't Very Important? Let us begin our discussion of individual differences in happiness by highlighting those things that turn out to be relatively unimportant determinants of subjective well-being. Quite a number of factors that one might expect to be influential appear to bear little or no relationship to general happiness. Money. There is a positive correlation between income and
subjective feeling of happiness, but the association is surprisingly weak (Myers & Diener, 1995). For example, one study found a correlation of just .12 between income and happiness in the United States (Diener et al., 1993). Admittedly, being very poor can make people unhappy, but once people ascend above the poverty level, there is little relation between income and happiness. On the average, even wealthy people are only marginally happier than those in the middle classes. The problem with money is that in this era of voracious consumption, most people find a way to spend their money and come out short, no matter how much they make. Complaints about not having enough money are routine even among affluent people who earn six-figure incomes. Age. Age and happiness are consistently found to be unrelated. Age accounts for less than 1 percent of the variations in people's happiness (Inglehart, 1990; Myers & Diener, 1997). The key factors influencing subjective well-being may shift some as people grow older — work becomes less important, health more so — but people's average level of happiness tends to remain remarkably stable over the life span. Gender. Women are treated for depressive disorders about twice as often as men, so one might expect that women are less happy on average. However, like age, gender accounts for less than 1 percent of the variations in
people's subjective well-being (Myers, 1992).
Parenthood. Children can be a tremendous source of joy and fulfilment, but they can also be a tremendous source of headaches and hassles. Compared to childless couples, parents worry more and experience more marital problems (Argyle, 1987). Apparently, the good and bad aspects of parenthood balance each other out, because the evidence indicates the people who have children are neither more nor less happy than people without children. Intelligence. Intelligence is a highly valued trait in modern society, but researchers have not found an association between IQ scores and happiness (Diener, 1984). Educational attainment also appears to be unrelated to life satisfaction (Ross & Van William, 1997). Physical Attractiveness. Good-looking people enjoy a variety of advantages in comparison to unattractive people. Given that physical attractiveness is an important resource in Western society, we might expect attractive people to be happier than others, but the available data indicate that the correlation between attractiveness and happiness is negligible (Diener, Wolsic, & Fujita, 1999). Community. According to Freedman (1978), when asked where they would most like to live, people show a clear preference for the stereotype of tranquil, pastoral life believed
to exist in rural areas. However, when actual happiness is related to community type, people living in suburban and rural areas are found to be equally happy. What Is Somewhat Important? Research has identified four facets of life that appear to have a moderate impact on subjective well-being: health, social activity, religious relief, and culture. Health. Good physical health would seem to be an essential requirement for happiness, but people adapt to health problems. Research reveals that individuals who develop serious, disabling health conditions aren't as unhappy as one might guess (Myers, 1992). Furthermore, Freedman (1978) argues that good health does not, by itself, produce happiness, because people tend to take good health for granted. Such considerations may help explain why researchers find only a moderate positive correlation (average = . 32) between health status and subjective well-being (Diener, 1984). Social Activity. Humans are social animals, and people's interpersonal relations do appear to contribute to their happiness. People who are satisfied with their friendship networks and who are socially active report above-average levels of happiness (Cooper, Okamura, & Gurka, 1992; Diener, 1984). At the other end of the spectrum, people troubled by loneliness tend to be very unhappy (Argyle, 1987). Religion. The link between religiosity and subjective
well-being is modest, but a number of large-scale surveys suggest that people with heartfelt religious convictions are more likely to be happy than people who characterize themselves as nonreligious (Argyle, 1987; Poloma & Pendleton, 1990). Researchers aren't sure how religious faith fosters happiness, but Myers (1992) offers some interesting conjectures. Among other things, he discusses how religion can give
people a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives, help them to accept their setbacks gracefully, connect them to a caring, supportive community, and comfort them by putting their ultimate mortality in perspective. Culture. Researchers have found some modest cultural variations in average subjective well-being and in the key sources of happiness (Diener et al., 1995). These variations have mostly been related to cultural differences in individual versus collectivism. Individualism involves putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships. In contrast, collectivism involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to (such as one's family tribe, work group, social class, caste, and so on). In comparison to individualistic
cultures, collectivist cultures place a higher priority on shared values and resources, cooperation, mutual interdependence, and concern for how one's actions will affect other group members. Consistent with these realities, relationship harmony appears to be a more important determinant of happiness in collectivist cultures than in individualistic cultures (Kwan, Bond, & Singelis, 1997). Interestingly, people from individualistic cultures report somewhat higher average levels of happiness than people from collectivist cultures (Diener et al., 1995). Researchers have just begun to analyze the causes of cultural disparities in subjective well-being. What Is Very Important? The list of factors that turn out to be very important ingredients of happiness is surprisingly short. Only a few variables are strongly related to overall happiness. Love and Marriage. Romantic relationships can be stressful, but people consistently rate being in love as one of the most critical ingredients of happiness (Diener, 1984). Furthermore, although people complain a lot about their marriages, the evidence indicates that marital status is a key correlate of happiness. Among both men and women, married people are happier than people who are single or divorced (see Figure 1.10; Myers & Diener, 1995). However, the causal relations underlying this correlation are unclear. It may be that happiness causes marital
satisfaction more than marital satisfaction promotes happiness. Perhaps people who are happy tend to have better intimate relationships and more stable marriages, while people who are unhappy have more difficulty finding and keeping mates. Work. Given the way people often complain about their jobs, we might not expect work to be a key source of happiness, but it is. Although less critical than love and marriage, job satisfaction is strongly related to general happiness (Argyle, 1987). Studies also show that unemployment has devastating effects on subjective
well-being (Diener, 1984). It is difficult to sort out whether job satisfaction causes happiness or vice versa, but evidence suggests that causation flows both ways (Argyle, 1987). Personality. The best predictor of individuals' future happiness is their past happiness (Myers, 1992). Some people seem destined to be happy and others unhappy, regardless of their triumphs or setbacks. The limited influence of life events was apparent in a study that found only marginal
differences between lottery winners and quadriplegics in overall happiness (Argyle, 1987). Several lines of evidence suggest that happiness does not depend on external circumstance — having a nice house, good friends, and an enjoyable job — as much as
internal factors, such as one's outlook on life. With this reality in mind, researchers have begun to look for links between personality and subjective well-being, and they have found some relatively strong correlations. For example, self-esteem is one of the best predictors of happiness. Not surprisingly, people who like themselves tend to be happier than those who do not. Other personality correlations of happiness include extraversion, optimism, and a sense of personal control over one's life (Myers & Diener, 1995). Conclusions We must be cautious in drawing inferences about the causes of happiness, because most of the available data are correlational data (see Figure 1.11). Nonetheless, the empirical evidence suggests that many popular beliefs about the sources of happiness are unfounded. The data also demonstrate that happiness is shaped by a complex constellation of variables. In spite of this complexity, however, a number of worthwhile insights about human adjustment can be gleaned from research on the correlates of subjective well-being. First, research on happiness demonstrates that the determinants of subjective well-being are precisely that subjective. Objective realities are not as important as subjective feelings. In other words, your health, your wealth, your job, and your age are not as influential as how you feel about your health, wealth, job,
and age (Argyle, 1987). Second, in making the subjective assessments that shape a person's happiness, everything is relative (Myers, 1992). In other words, you evaluate what you have relative to what the people around you have and relative to what you expected to have. Generally, people compare themselves with others who are similar. Thus, wealthy people assess what they have by comparing themselves with their wealthy friends and neighbours. This is one reason why there is little correlation between wealth and happiness. You might have a lovely home, but if it sits next to a neighbour's palatial mansion, it might be a source of more dissatisfaction than happiness. In addition to comparing themselves with others, people compare what they have with what they expected to have. Those who exceed their expectations are more likely to be happy. Thus, people living in a lonely home next to a much lovelier mansion could still be quite happy — if they never expected to live in such an affluent neighbourhood. To a large degree, then, happiness is measured on a relative, rather than an absolute, scale. Third, although there is no simple recipe for happiness, research shows that the quest for happiness is never hopeless (Freedman, 1978; Myers, 1992). The evidence indicates that some people find happiness in spite of seemingly insurmountable problems. There is nothing, short of terminal
illness —no setback, shortcoming, difficulty, or inadequacy —that makes happiness impossible.
happiness的英语演讲稿 篇一：HAPPINESS的英语演讲稿 the road to happiness good morning/afternoon distinguished judges and my fellow students. i am ..from..##. i am going to start my speech with a question. how can we harvest happiness? as for this question, most of you have thought about it incidentally or purposefully. while have you figured out the way? next, i will share my understanding of this question. for me, the road to happiness is the way to fight for my goals and desires. as a matter of fact, i have been on the road to happiness from the moment i was born. when i was 5, i racked my brains（绞尽脑汁） to get a barbie doll or a teddy bear. in order to get them, i was willing to attend the
piano class which actually was the last thing i wanted to do. however, on thinking of my little dolls, i forgot all the pains in the piano class. i deeply believed that i was realizing my happiness, and i was on the road to my happiness. when i was 10,i was fascinated by the title of no.1 which could bring me a huge sense of success. to be the no.1, i sacrificed my rest time to attend all kinds of training classes, and i saved my pocket money to afford reference books. these might sound painful for most 10 years old children. but as long as i achieved my goal, i thought i was on the road to happiness. when i was 15, i became an enthusiast of painting. i enjoyed the way to express myself by means of different colors.. with a strong desire to improve my painting
Unit 9 What Is Happiness? John Ciardi (abridged) The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates, but no one seems quite sure which way it runs. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan Swift seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as “the possession of being well-deceived,” the felicity of being “a fool among knaves.” For Swift saw society as Vanity Fair, the land of false goals. It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves. We do, however, seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough. And at the same time the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them —and to create them faster than any man’s budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole economy is base d on a dedicated insatiability. We are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. It was only a few years ago, to cite a single example, that car dealers across the country were flying banners that read "You Auto Buy Now." They were calling upon Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, with money they did not have, automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year’s models were released. Or look at any of the women’s magazines. There, as Bernard DeVoto once pointed out, advertising begins as poetry in the front pages and ends as pharmacopoeia and therapy in the back pages. The poetry of the front matter is the dream of perfect beauty. This is the baby skin that must be hers. These, the flawless teeth. This, the perfumed breath she must exhale. This, the sixteen-year-old figure she must display at forty, at fifty, at sixty, and forever. Once past the vaguely uplifting fiction and feature articles, the reader finds the other face of the dream in the back matter. This is the harness into which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure. These, the chin straps she must sleep in. This is the salve that restores all, this is her laxative, these are the tablets that melt away fat, these are the hormones of perpetual youth, these are the stockings that hide varicose veins.
【篇一】幸福 Happiness The definition of happiness varies from person to person. Most people believe that earning a lot of money and living the comfortable life are the symbol of great happiness. It is true that making great achievement is our target, so we work so hard to realize our goals. But as we grow up, we realize the different definitions of happiness. 幸福的定义因人而异，大多数人认为赚大钱，过舒适的生活就是幸福的象征。确实，取得伟大的成就是我们的目标，所以我们努力去实现我们的目标。但随着我们的长大，我们意识到关于幸福不一样的定义。 When I graduated from college, the job I chose was far away from home. I never thought about the distance between me and my parents. But in the first year of working, I met some difficult time in my career, just like other young people. At that moment, all I could do was to face the challenge by myself, because I didn’t want my parents to worry about me. Every time when I called home, my parents always comforted me by asking me to go home often. I realized the happiness for me was to have my parents stood by my side. 我大学毕业的时候我选择了离家很远的工作，我从来没有想过关于我和父母之间距离的。但工作的第一年，我的职业生涯就像其他年轻人一样遇到了一些困难。那一刻，我能做的就是独自面对挑战，因为我不想让父母为我担心。每次我打电话回家，父母总是安慰我，让我常回家。我意识到父母能够陪在我身边就是我的幸福。 As an ordinary girl, my definition of happiness is to company my parents as often as possible. Nothing can compare the time to stay with my families. 作为一个普通的女孩，我对幸福的定义是尽可能多地陪伴父母。没有什么能比和家人呆在一起的时间更宝贵了。 【篇二】国际合作节 International Day of Cooperatives Today, the world is globalized and more and more foreigners come to China to seek for business cooperation. Many years ago, a non-profit organization named the second Saturday of July as the International Day of Cooperatives. Its purpose is to call for more cooperations between countries. 当今世界是全球化的，越来越多的外国人来中国寻求商业合作。许多年前，一个非营利组织将7月的第二个星期六定为国际合作日。其目的是呼吁各国之间进行更多的合作。 With the development of Internet, the world gets smaller, because the communication between countries has increased. America is the superpower all the time, but during recent times, there are so many business cooperation between Chinese people and American people. It is known to all that China’s market is full of vitality, so there is no doubt that cooperation between countries will be the main trend. 随着互联网的发展，世界变得越来越小，因为国与国之间的交流增加了。美国一直是超级大国，但在最近，中国和美国之间进行了很多商业合作。众所周知，
教师英语演讲稿：Happiness 教师英语演讲稿：Happiness As we all know, happiness is something that everyone is chasing. But, what is happiness? Does happiness have a universal definition? I say no. But there must be something in life that makes you realize what it means. When you are hungry, you have something to eat. Don’t you feel happy? When you’re in sick, there is a short message full of care and love from your friend. Don’t you feel happy? When you have each tiny wish come true, don’t you feel happy？I always try my best to find out what is the true meaning of happiness. And I think I have got lots of it from my career. Today, standing here, I’d like to share with you a little piece of my happiness from my school life. “Dear queen, how do you feel? Do we massage well?” Lee said softly around me. Of course, the “queen” was me. One day, our P.E teacher was out for business trip. So it was my duty to be the leader in this P.E class. After guiding students to play games for a long time. Everyone was tired. Then, one student lay down. Then, another…in a minute, all of the students lay down on the playground. It was so enjoyable for me to see such a great situation, as in the classroom our lovely guys always sit properly to show their poritive attitudes. The sun was shining. The wind was blowing. Smelling the faint smell of flowers, I couldn’t help closing my eyes and lying on my back. Suddently, a tiny hand touched my arm. “Queen, you must be tired after a day’s work. Right? I’m your faithful maid. Let me serve for y ou.” Then, the other students came over to sit and serve around me. Head, neck, leg. Wow, that was really a great happiness to have such an experience. Dear friends, everyday we have a lot of work to do. Everyday we have a lot of things to complain. But, just like Xiao Shenyang saying, “The eyes close and open - a day is over. The eyes close but never open , all life has gone.” Time is limited. Why can’t we focus on our lovely students and keep a happy mind in the school life? Just like me. Lie down and enjoy the happiness from my kids.
Happiness Is an Attitude 幸福是一种态度 Maybe you wouldn’t say yesterday was a happy day, because you had a misunderstanding with your friend. But were n’t there moments of happiness, moments of clear peace? Now that you think about it, wasn’t there a letter from an old friend, or a stranger who asked where you got such a great haircut? You remember having a bad day, yet those good moments occurred. 或许你会说，昨天是一个不愉快的日子，因为你与朋友之间产生了舞会。难道说那天就没有快乐和平和之时吗？现在想想看，昨天你是否收到了老朋友的来信？是否有陌生人问你：这么漂亮的发型是在哪儿里剪的？你只想着今天是倒霉的一天，却忽略了发生美好事情的某些瞬间。 Happiness is like a visitor, you can’t command her appearance; you can only appreciate her when she does show up. And you can’t force happiness to happen—but you can make sure you are aware of it when it does. 幸福像一位游客，你不能掌控他的出没。只能欣赏她出现时的倩影。你无力迫使幸福出现——而当幸福来临时，你一定会感觉得到。 Happiness is an attitude, not a condition. It’s cleaning the Venetian blinds while listening to an aria, or spending a pleasant hour organizing
Happiness If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. – Aristotle . What is happiness? Happiness is widely considered as a feeling which make us feel pleasant or hate of sadness. What’s your definition of happiness? As we can see, happiness exists almost everywhere. However, happiness only applies to the differential people. Your happiness maybe sadness to others For instance, in team sports, especially ball games, champion only exist one .There must be one winner and one loser. Take the National Basketball Association or the NBA as an example, in 2014 final game between San Antonio Spurs and Miami heat, one person is the fan of San Antonio Spurs, through the fierce game, both teams tied 3-3.At the final game, San Antonio Spurs wined the final game and got the cup. The fan felt very happy and he thought it is the happiest thing in the world. On the other side, the fans of the Miami heat thought it as the saddest thing .Can you tell this kind of things is a happiness or sadness? Happiness can’t exist unless it is based on one thing. We can also talk about the background of the happiness after the basis of happiness. Take the war as one example, Nazi has done abundant things which amazed the whole world. This kind of devoid of humanity hurt the whole world and the Jew. However it’s happiness for Adolf Hitler, isn’t it? He destroyed the whole volk which he hated very often. This kind of examples maybe cruel, but it
关于幸福的英语演讲稿 篇一：什么是幸福的英文演讲稿 幸福是什么？ Hello everybody, today I am very glad to be here to share with you my ideas of is happiness It is what everyone is longing for. Sometimes happiness would be rather simple. Winning a game is happiness; getting a high grade in the exam is happiness; even now I am standing here giving my speech is somehow also happiness. 大家好，今天我很高兴在这里与你分享我的想法的幸福。幸福是什么？这是每个人都渴望。幸福有时很简单。赢得一场比赛是幸福；考试得高分是幸福；甚至我现在站在这里演讲，也是幸福的。 However, as far as a person’s whole life is concerned, happiness becomes very complicated(复杂的). Is fortune（财富） success Is fame（名誉） happiness Is high social status happiness No, I don’t think so. Happiness in my mind is the attitude（态度） towards things. Nowadays, in the modern society there are many people who have much money, but the fact is they are not happy. My dictionary defines happy as "lucky" or
On Happiness Happiness, I can't give you the exact definition of it, and maybe everyone used to have the different understanding. Nonetheless as a student I think happiness is a feeling, it relays on the person's position of mind, the most crucial is what do you think. People every day do the work is remarkable hard and not earn considerably money either, nevertheless he thinks it was his favorite thing to do, he feels extremely pleased and satisfied. At the party, people raised a glass to the new couple and wishing them a happy life forever, which is happiness also. What is happiness, happiness is to have a grateful heart, not only have a healthy body, but also have many friends whom can trust in, a felicity family and a hopeful tomorrow. The American president Abraham Lincoln has been said, most folks are about as happy as they make up their mindsets. In the end, you need to constantly remind yourself that you will discover that happiness is around you. My only suggestion is to cherish every moment, to cherish what belongs to you is the most important!
三分钟英语演讲：My happiness in NKU 张家玮 三分钟演讲，很短。 Good evening, everyone! It’s a great honor for me to stand here on this special occasion to deliver a speech. Today I’d like to talk about my happiness in Nankai University. I have a senior high school classmate now majoring in economy and finance in Hong Kong University. The other day she asked me the reason why all her friends in Nankai feel extremely proud of this university while those in other schools don’t have such strong passion. I couldn’t tell the concrete reasons, but I did think a lot. To be honest, I felt more than lucky to be admitted by School of Finance in Nankai, for I didn’t do well in the national entrance examination. I lost more than 40 points in physics, which got me the lowest grades and ranks throughout my senior high school life. To my relief, I don’t have to study physics in the following four years, which is definitely an extra bonus. The first day I got here I was warmly welcomed by the whole school. As time went by, I became increasingly busy. But
Happiness First, Money Later We live in a success and money driven culture. If you doubt the truthfulness of that cliché, I’ll refer you to competitive reality TV, your office, the lottery, and just about any marketing or money-based blog on the web. F rom the first day that we understand its power, we’re made to believe that money is the end-all of human happiness and achievement. Unfortunately for young professionals with big career ambitions, the mantra of “more money means the good life” leads to more sorrow than it does to happiness. No Regrets The sad truth is that young professionals who aspire to monetary success (and who doesn’t?) often make comprises in all other aspects of their life in order to make the big bucks. Our society almost encourages the sacrifice of personal happiness for the sake of material success. But what is success if it can’t be shared or appreciated among loved ones? What is a life’s worth of work if you don’t take a moment to stop and enjoy it? The Guardian recently published a compelling piece about the five biggest regrets of people about to meet their maker. The author explains that most people regret that they didn’t lead the life they wanted to lead, or they regret that they worked too hard in life at the expense of those they loved. It’s a revealing story that drives home the need for many
On happiness Everyone have their own way to pursue the happiness they think,but also have a lot of people who have no idea of happiness while working busily everyday. “What is happiness?”.Everybody has his own different opinions for this question. Some people believed that happiness accompanied with the satisfaction in the well relationship just like Victor Hugo,the French novelist,said:“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved”. There is only the pain which we can feel if we accompany day and night with the person we dislike. But Thomas Edison also said that achievement provides the only real pleasure in life. Well-being comes from intense self-identification and realizing one’s self-value in his view. Different from them,Abraham Lincoln have suggested that the most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Based on this statement,we might conclude that the happiness is only a feeling which depend more on what you think than what the reality is. This just right consistent with the old Taoist wisdom that happiness consists in contentment to a certain extent. Although the adults have made a lot of discussion in this question,happiness for most of children sames just as simple as joy which is easy to obtain.
中学生英语作文：The Pursuit of Happiness 观《当幸福来敲门》有感 I have watched amovie, which named “The Pursuit of Happiness”. I have to admit that this is amovie excite people’s mind. 我看过一部电影,叫做《当幸福来敲门》。我得承认这是一部触动人们心灵的电影。 It is a real story. The film is about happiness. Chris was an ordinary salesperson. He wentout to sell his scanner every day. He was hard enough, but almost nobody thoughtthe scanner was useful for him or her. Nobody bought it. 这是一个真实的故事，一个关于幸福的电影。克里斯是一名普通的销售人员。他每天出去卖扫描仪。尽管他足够努力,但几乎没人认为扫描仪对他们有用。没有一个人买他的东西。 Chris had a wifeand a son. They need money to live. However, at that time, Chris could not givehis wife an ideal life. Therefore, his wife chose to leave him. This madeChris’s life worse. However, in the end, he still had his own insistence andefforts to get the success. I admire him very much.
Happiness 但那是幸福也没有具体的定义。无论如何，特意强调的追求也许是心领神会的决定，与唐吉柯德的行为一样，也就是说，过程会比终点完美许多。“幸福”我的精神监督曾经一遍又一遍的告诉我，当我告诉他我的患者的信息说，“幸福是人们所渴望的东西。”他停下来，过了一会接了一句我知道句子：“当人们拥有它的时候，就会忽略，所以一直在不断的寻找。” 什么是幸福？这个词最开始出现在16世纪的英语中，在英语词源学与精神上都与happen 毫无疑问，对什么促成了幸福和幸福的组成有许多解释。对于很多虔诚的教徒来说，工作上的突然成功，美满的婚姻，还有随着时间的推移培养出来强壮聪明举止得体的孩子，而这些孩子们看起来非常有能力并且对他们的命运满足，这一切都是幸福的标志，是受到上帝青睐的表现。对于那些不信的人来讲，他不知道自己的生命，也不知道人类在地球上的位置以及目标，幸福看上去就是偶然的东西，充其量就是一个人努力工作后的感觉。但是现在我们说的太早了，大约四百年前，历史上人们对幸福有敬畏感，仿佛是听从于深不可测的宇宙中某些无法理解的用作规律下，来拜访某些人的。只有到了近代，随着男人和女人越来越多地成为世界的中心，或者在他们的脑海里他们的成为了世界的缔造者执行者，成为了能够促成或者某些时间能够发生的人的时候，幸福才能成为一种目标和目的。或者想那些起早国宪法的辛勤工作者有抱负的人所说的那样，幸福是一种需要发起追求的东西。这样幸福不是发生的，而是需要被获取。 这里还得再提这个问题，1600年甚至在往前，幸福这个词被越来越多英国人和美国人的提及。英国诗人，亚历蒲柏的名言，他曾经说道“哇！幸福！”接下来他试图努力把这件事情解释清楚，他说：“幸福是我们人类的目标和目的，美好，享乐，从容，满足，该用什么样的词来定义你呢？”蒲泊在谈及这种思想和心灵上这种微妙的感觉的时候，采用了一
大学英语作文：幸福 Happiness 【篇一】幸福 Happiness The definition of happiness varies from person to person. Most people believe that earning a lot of money and living the comfortable life are the symbol of great happiness. It is true that making great achievement is our target, so we work so hard to realize our goals. But as we grow up, we realize the different definitions of happiness. 幸福的定义因人而异，绝大部分人认为赚大钱，过舒适的生活就是幸福的象征。确实，取得伟大的成就是我们的目标，所以我们努力去实现我们的目标。但随着我们的长大，我们意识到关于幸福不一样的定义。 When I graduated from college, the job I chose was far away from home. I never thought about the distance between me and my parents. But in the first year of working, I met some difficult time in my career, just like other young people. At that moment, all I could do was to face the challenge by myself, because I didn’t want my par ents to worry about me. Every time when I called home, my parents always comforted me by asking me to go home often. I realized the happiness for me was to have my parents stood by my side. 我大学毕业的时候我选择了离家很远的工作，我从来没有想过关于我和父母之间距离的。但工作的第一年，我的职业生涯就像其他年轻人一样遇到了一些困难。那一刻，我能做的就是独自面对挑战，因为我不想让父母为我担心。每次我打电话回家，父母总是安慰我，让我常回家。我意识到父母能够陪在我身边就是我的幸福。