Zig Ziglar (勵志演說家)
“Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are...
View ArticleRed Skelton (喜劇節目主持人)
“I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you...
View ArticleOrison Marden (作家)
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.” — Orison Marden, Writer 「愉快讓內心及面容保持年輕。成為一個有趣的人,使我們更喜歡自己,也和周遭的人成為更好的朋友。」–...
View ArticleJoyce Brothers (心理學家)
“Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.” — Joyce Brothers, Psychologist 「快樂隱藏在生活的細節裡,不留意就難以察覺。」– 喬伊絲‧布爾斯 (心理學家) invisible (adj.) 看不見的,無形的。例:The building...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn (演員)
voice] “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most – to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.” — Audrey Hepburn,...
View ArticleBill Cosby (喜劇演員)
“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.” — Bill Cosby, Comedian 「透過歡笑,你可以扭轉痛苦的情境,如果你能在所有環境中找到樂趣,即便遭逢貧窮,你也有辦法生存。」–...
View ArticleWilliam Arthur Ward (學者)
“Happiness has a habit of pursuing the person who feels grateful to his God, comfortable with his conscience, in favor with his friend, in love with his labors and in balance with his bank.” — William...
View ArticleAntonio Gala (作家)
“Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.” — Antonio Gala, Writer 「遏人開心,也許是獲取快樂的最簡單方法。」– 安東尼奧‧卡勒 (作家) humble (adj.) 簡單而實用的。例:The humble potato may be the key to...
View ArticleElizabeth Montagu (社會改革者)
“I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.” — Elizabeth Montagu, Social Reformer...
View ArticleGroucho Marx (滑稽演員)
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy...
View ArticleLouisa May Alcott (小說家)
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring...
View ArticleFyodor Dostoyevsky (作家)
voice] “Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Writer 「人們只喜歡計算他們的麻煩,不喜歡計算他們的喜悅。」– 費奧多爾‧陀思妥耶夫斯基 (作家) joy (n.) 使人高興的事物。例:the joy of sharing with...
View ArticleJim Rohn (勵志作家)
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” — Jim Rohn, Author 「快樂不是你延後將來要做的事,而是你計劃現在要做的事。」–吉姆.羅恩 (勵志作家) postpone (v.) 延期,延緩。例:They decided to...
View ArticleJoseph Addison (文學家)
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison, Writer 「快樂人生的三個必要元素是,有要做的事、熱愛的事及盼望的事。」– 約瑟夫‧艾迪生 (文學家) grand...
View ArticleAnatole France (文學家)
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in...
View ArticleArnold Bennett (小說家)
“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up...
View ArticleNorman Lear (節目製作人)
voice] “Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t...
View ArticlePearl Buck (小說家)
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” — Pearl Buck, Novelist 「很多人希望獲得大的快樂,因而錯失小的樂趣。」– 珀爾‧巴克 (小說家) 珀爾‧巴克 (1892-1973) 是美國 (旅華) 作家,中文名為賽珍珠,其許多著作都與東方文化有關,所著小說《大地》(The Good...
View ArticleBenjamin Disraeli (英國首相)
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” — Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister 「行動不見得一定帶來快樂,但沒有行動就沒有快樂。」– 班傑明‧迪斯雷利 (英國首相) 班傑明‧迪斯雷利 (1804-1881)...
View ArticleHenry Ward Beecher (傳教士)
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” — Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman 「快樂的藝術是由平凡提取快樂的能力。」– 亨利‧畢傑 (傳教士) extract (v.) 提取,提煉。例:The oil is extracted from...
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