I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. 我住在好莱坞。你可能认为住在这样一个魅力四射、充满欢笑的地方要比其他人更幸福。倘若如此，你就误解了幸福的本质。
Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.许多聪明人依旧将幸福与娱乐等同起来。事实上，娱乐与幸福很少、甚至毫无共同之处。娱乐是某个活动进行中的`体验，而幸福则是活动之后的体验。幸福是更深刻、更持久的情感。
Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.去游乐场或去看球赛，看电影或看电视，这些都是娱乐活动，有助于我们放松身心，暂时忘却自己的难题，甚至让我们放声大笑。但是，这一切并不能带来幸福，因为娱乐一结束，它们的正面效应亦随之终结。
I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness".我常常这样想，如果好莱坞明星起到某种作用的话，那就是向我们昭示幸福与娱乐毫无关系。作为个人，他们富有，楚楚动人，可以随时出席令人神往的宴会，拥有顶尖级汽车、昂贵的宅第--这一切似乎意味着“幸福”。
But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, profound loneliness.然而，在一部又一部的回忆录中，名流们揭示了隐藏在这一切娱乐活动背后的不幸：忧郁、酗酒、吸毒成瘾、失败的婚姻、饱受困扰的孩子、极度的孤独。
The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.人们执迷不悟，以为充满欢笑、没有痛苦的生活就等于幸福；这实际上减少了他们真正臻于幸福之境的可能性。如果娱乐和快乐等同于幸福的话，那么痛苦必然等同于不幸福。可事实正相反：导致幸福的一切常常蕴含着些许痛苦。
As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.因此，许多人不愿努力，而这些努力恰恰正是真正幸福的源泉。诸如婚姻、抚育子女、职业成就、宗教信仰、公共及慈善事业、自身修养等必然带来痛苦，他们因而对于这一切心怀畏惧。
人生是需要等候的，等候一阵风的拂过，等候一朵花的盛开，等候伊人的到来，等候生命爆发的强音。心灵是需要在等候中坚守的，坚守无风的日月，坚守落花的寂寞，坚守情感的空白，坚守生活的平凡。英文人生哲理句子有哪些？
英文人生哲理句子篇一：
1、When the whole world is about to rain, let's make it clear in our heart together.
当全世界约好一起下雨，让我们约好一起在心里放晴。
2、I lied when I said I didn't like you. I lied when I said I didn't care. I lie every time I try to tell myself I will never fall for you.
我说不爱你，那是假话；我说不在乎，那是假话；我告诉自己对你再不会有感觉了，那也是假话。
3、Life is a journey, not the destination, but the scenery along the should be and the mood at the view.
人生就是一场旅行，不在乎目的地，在乎的应该是沿途的风景以及看风景的心情。
4、You may be out of my sight, but never out of my mind.
你也许已走出我的视线，但从未走出我的思念。
5、It's better to be alone than to be with someone you're not happy to be with.
宁愿一个人呆着，也不要跟不合拍的人呆一块。
6、No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. The sun comes right back up the next day.
不管你有多痛苦，这个世界都不会为你停止转动。太阳依旧照样升起。
7、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。
8、Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。
9、Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
任何值得做的，就把它做好。
10、I'll think of you every step of the way.
我会想你，在漫漫长路的每一步。
11、Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
除非你能和真实的自己和平相处，否则你永远不会对已拥有的东西感到满足。
12、Your happy passer-by all knows, my distressed there is no place hides.
你的幸福路人皆知，我的狼狈无处遁形。
13、In love folly is always sweet.
恋爱中，干傻事总是让人感到十分美妙。
14、In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
到头来，你活了多少岁不算什么，重要的是，你是如何度过这些岁月的。
15、The hard part isn't making the decision. It's living with it.
做出决定并不困难，困难的是接受决定。
16、Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
时间在流逝，生命中人来人往。不要错失机会，告诉他们在你生命中的意义。
17、Accept what was and what is, and you'll have more positive energy to pursue what will be.
接受过去和现在的模样，才会有能量去追寻自己的未来。
18、If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
要想射中靶，必须瞄准比靶略为高些，因为脱弦之箭都受到地心引力的影响。
19、One needs 3 things to be truly happy living in the world: some thing to do, some one to love, some thing to hope for.
要得到真正的快乐，我们只需拥有三样东西：有想做的事，有值得爱的人，有美丽的.梦。
20、Love is not a maybe thing. You know when you love someone.
爱不是什么可能、大概、也许，一旦爱上了，自己是十分清楚的。
英文人生哲理句子篇二：
1、I am a slow walker,but I never walk backwards.
我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。
2、Wealth is the test of a man's character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石。
3、It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.一一Winston Churchill
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。--丘吉尔
4、Genius only means hard-working all one's life .( Mendeleyer,Russian Chemist)
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。 (俄国化学家 门捷列夫)
5、The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。
6、I feel strongly that I can make it.
我坚信我一定能成功。
7、Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
没有目标的生活如同没有罗盘的航行。
8、There is but one secret to sucess---never give up!
成功只有一个秘诀--永不放弃!
9、Failure is the mother of success.
失败乃成功之母。
10、If you fail, don't forget to learn your lesson.
如果你失败了，千万别忘了汲取教训。
11、Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
12、There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进，那就是你自己。
13、All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
14、For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
15、Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet . (Jean Jacques Rousseau , French thinker)
忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。 (法国思想家 卢梭。 J. J.)
16、The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好!
17、The good seaman is known in bad weather.
惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。
18、Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
19、There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
20、Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
苦难是人生最伟大的老师。
21、Gods determine what you're going to be. (Julius Erving)
人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。(欧文)
22、Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿，无事不成。
23、When all else is lost the future still remains.
就是失去了一切别的，也还有未来。
24、Believe that god is fair.
相信上帝是公平的。
25、He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
身体健壮就有希望，有了希望就有了一切。
26、Do what you say,say what you do.
做你说过的，说你能做的。
27、Never say die.
永不气馁!
28、Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Benjamin Franklin)
能量加毅力可以征服一切。(富兰克林)
29、The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.
做许多事情的捷径就是一次只做一件事。
30、Constant dripping wears away the stone.
锲而不舍，金石可镂。
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.成功的秘诀在于持之于恒。
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. 有时，恋人间的分离不会令爱磨灭，反而会变得更深。
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to!有些人成功，是因为他们命中注定要成功；但绝大部分人成功，是因为他们下定决心要成功！
Saying and doing are two different things. 说和做是迥然不同的两回事。
Nothing down, nothing up.不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹？
Misfortunes never come alone/single.祸不单行。
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.遭祸容易脱祸难。
Maturity does not lie in how old you are, but how strong you are to take on responsibilities.成熟不是看你的年龄有多大，而是看你的肩膀能挑起多重的责任。
Little compliments mean so much to me sometimes.有时，微不足道的一点肯定，对我却意义非凡。
It is never too late to mend. 亡羊补牢，犹时未晚。
It is never too late to learn. 活到老，学到老。
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. 每件大事都是由一系列小事或者细节组成的。
From small beginnings comes great things. 伟大始于渺小。
Fear is a product of ignorance.一切的恐惧，都缘于无知。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.经验是智慧之母。
Every profession produces its own best行行出状元。
Every man is his own worst enemy.一个人最大的敌人就是他自 己。
Constant dropping wears the stone. 滴水穿石。
Actions speak louder than words. 行动比语言更响亮。
