美文欣赏：什么能让你一直拥有幸福感？

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　　What makes you happy all the time? What do you do when you feel like having
a bad day?
        　　什么能让你一直拥有幸福感?在你觉得一天过得很糟时，你会做什么让自己开心起来?
        　　下面是8位网友的分享，在读这篇文章的你，又是什么能让你拥有最大的幸福感?
        　　David Leonhardt
        　　Being at peace with myself, just knowing that I am doing , thinking how
lucky I am for the incredible bounty I was born into…it’s not one thing, it’s an
attitude.
        　　内心的平静，知道自己在做什么，心怀感激我能降临到这个世界上是多大的运气，这不是一件事，这是一种生活态度。
        　　Jennifer Walpole
        　　Books. Books always make me happy when I’m having a bad day. And, while I
do enjoy e-books, I love the print versions. There is something intensely
satisfying about actually turning the page of a book. I like all genres of
books; my favorites are sci-fi and adventure. I also turn to music to bolster my
happiness. Josh Groban is a favorite. Most of the time, I have music playing in
the background as I’m working. The most simplistic thing that I do when I need
to feel happy is count my blessings; even when it seems like the world is
crashing down, there is always something to be thankful for.
        　　书籍。心情不好的时候书永远能让我快乐起来。虽然我也喜欢电子书，但相比而言，纸质的更好。当你翻动书页的时候会有一种前所未有的满足感。我喜欢各种题材的书籍，最爱的是科幻和冒险类。我也会听音乐来获得幸福感，最爱的音乐人是美国歌手乔诗·葛洛班。大多数时候，我都会把音乐开着当成工作的背景。当我需要感知幸福时，最简单的莫过于数数我到底拥有些什么，哪怕我的世界一团糟，也总还会有值得我去感激的事情啊。
        　　Nikola Gjakovski
        　　Knowing that today I’m closer to my goal than yesterday brings me
happiness. The things that make me a better person than I was yesterday, the
virtues that we share between us. Also the small things such as hearing someone
snort when they laugh, seeing people do good deeds, when I nail a performance I
was nervous about, when my pet chooses to sleep next to me at night, when I see
old couples still in love, eating a watermelon on a hot summer day, licking the
spoon after baking, summer evening walks, realizing I’ve finished all my work
for the day and lot of others. Minimize your satisfaction of happiness, but
never minimize your goals and attainments. We all strive for happiness but only
few find it.
        　　知道今天比昨天更接近目标能让我开心。那些让今天的我比昨天更好的事情，那些我们彼此分享的美德。还有一些小事：比如听到别人扑哧一笑的声音
，看到别人做好事，为一次表演紧张到无法自拔，或者是宠物晚上睡在我旁边，看到老年伴侣依然相亲相爱，炎热的夏季夜晚吃一个大西瓜，烘烤完舔一舔勺子，夏季傍晚的散步，意识到我已经完成了自己一天的工作顺带帮别人完成了不少。把你对幸福感的满意度降到最低，但不要降低你的目标和成就。我们都在追求幸福，却只有很少人能真正找寻到。
            
            

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        　　Ieva Salina
        　　The life itself. Moments when you feel everything is connected. that you
are a creator. You have choice what to be, how to feel, what to think and say.
Being in nature where everything is in harmony and step by step create harmony
within and around. Those little moments which are filled with faith, love, joy
and success gives strength and encourage to move forward, to your goals.
Everything and anything is possible.
        　　生活本身。当你发现每件事都有着千丝万缕的联系的瞬间，你就是生活的创造者。你有选择去做什么、如何去感知、去思考什么和说什么的权利。当周围的一切都处在和谐之中不妨顺其自然，一步一步去创造内部和外在的和谐。那些充满了信念、爱、欢乐和成功的小瞬间，给予你力量促进你继续向着目标迈进。一切皆有可能。
        　　Kara Spain
        　　What makes me most happy is what comes from within myself or simply being
me without false pretenses. It is a byproduct of living my purpose; being a
writer, loving my family, and helping those in need when fate brings them along.
That is who I am naturally, and when I cede to those things I feel most happy
and alive as a human being.
        　　真正让我开心是内心存在的一些东西或者是简简单单做自己毫不伪装。这是活出我自己的目标的副产品，当一个作家，爱我的家庭，帮助那些被命运捉弄需要帮助的人们。我本就如此，当做到这些便会更加开心更有存在感。
        　　Chris Haigh
        　　The big stuff that brings me happiness are things like taking slow but
steady steps towards goals, dreams, and ambitions that I want to achieve and
feel ever more confident and hopeful in achieving.
        　　最能让我开心的莫过于朝着目标梦想和野心一步一步稳定的前进，同时感到越来越有信心和希望。
        　　I have to be honest, though; sometimes happiness really is about the little
things we do and we have. It doesn’t have to be big, but if they make you happy,
on a small but regular basis, then that makes them no less valid as sources of
happiness. For me, it’s silly little things like gelato in the sun or reading
books inside while it’s raining outside, or afternoon naps, or writing a great
to-do list or playing with my dog.
        　　然而我必须承认，很多时候幸福本身是那些我们做的和拥有的小事情。不需要多么的巨大，但如果能让你开心，哪怕是再小不过再日常的小事，那么也要把这当成是幸福的源泉。对于我来说，一些看起来傻傻的小事，比如阳光下吃冰淇淋，雨天窝在家看书，下午打盹，列一个要待办清单，或是和狗狗玩耍，都是如此幸福。
        　　Happiness is a choice and a goal and anyway you choose to achieve it is
valid and something you should striving to fill your life with.
        　　幸福感是选择和目标，是你选择来努力充实生活的事情。
            
            

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        　　robbie hyman
        　　Believe it or not, gratitude makes me happy.
        　　不管你信不信，感恩能让我幸福。
        　　Sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it? Seems like it should work in exactly
the opposite direction. First we get happy, then we can be grateful about
it.
        　　听起来不那么靠谱，好像完全弄反了。直觉上应该是我们先幸福，再来心怀感恩。
        　　The more time during your day you can spend being grateful about the things
and the people and the experiences and the luck you have in your life, the
happier you’ll be. I promise. I also promise that if you try, really try, to
think about all of the reasons you have to be grateful today, right now, you’ll
find an astonishingly long list.
        　　每天你对事物或人以及生活中拥有的经历和好运感恩越多，你就越开心。我保证是这样。我还可以保证如果你试了，真正地尝试了，想了一下今天你应该感恩的所有理由，那么现在，你就会发现有很长很长的清单了。
        　　I remember my first condo. Tiny place, but it was all mine. And I’m not
sure where I got the idea to do this, but I made a point — from the day I moved
in — to walk into every room in the place, just to take a few seconds to reflect
on the fact that I actually owned this room… and this one… that one too.
        　　我记得我第一个公寓。非常小，但真的是我的。我也不太清楚什么时候有了这样的想法，但就是这样——从我搬进去的那天开始，走到每一个房间，花几秒钟去回顾这个事实我真的拥有了这房间，还有这个，还有那个。
        　　Like I said, tiny place, so walking into each room wasn’t exactly a major
physical task. But it worked. Because I made feeling grateful for that condo a
part of my daily routine, I was a lot happier about it than I suspect most
people are about their homes — even if they’re a lot bigger than that condo
was.
        　　就如我说的，因为是小地方，所以去到每一个房间也不是啥大体力活。但真的很有用。我开始感恩，有这样一个公寓归我所有，似乎我比其他人对家的满意度幸福感更强——哪怕他们的房子比我的公寓大很多。
        　　Find gratitude to find happiness. It works. In that order. I promise.
        　　先感恩再幸福。真的很有效，就遵循这个顺序吧，相信我没错。
        　　Royale Scuderi
        　　A genuine smile, a comforting hug, a kind word, the comforts of home, real
and deep affection are all triggers for happiness, or at least for happy
moments. But what truly brings me happiness is a contentment that comes from
inside that I matter to those around me, that I’m contributing something to the
world. I think for me, happiness comes both from within and from without; it’s a
connection to other people, and a sense that all is OK, even in the midst of the
uncertainty that surrounds us, that life is still hopeful and good and
joyous.
        　　礼貌的微笑，安慰的拥抱，善意的言语，舒适的家，真实深沉的情感都是幸福的源泉，或至少能带来快乐的瞬间。但真正能让我开心的是来自于内心的满足，那种我对周围的人很重要、我对这个世界有着一定的贡献的满足感。我想对于我来说，幸福感来自内外，这是和别人的一种联系，一种感知，什么都可以，哪怕是包围着我们的不确定性，生活仍然充满希望好事和快乐。
        　　Happiness may be more than anything an attitude or more accurately a
mindset, a willingness to look for the good in life and to fully embrace and
appreciate it when you find it.
        　　幸福也许不仅仅是态度或者一种意识存在，而是一种意愿，你希望能在生活中找到美好，充分的去拥抱和感激你所找到的一切。