A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

一连串兴奋的、转瞬即逝的、杂七杂八的快乐不是幸福;幸福存在于想象的反思和判断中,当一个人的生活,或人类生活的画面,真实的过去或现在,满足了意志,并被欣然接受。

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

如果我们对人类生活中所有平凡的东西都有敏锐的洞察力,那就像听到草长出来或者松鼠的心跳,我们就会死于那咆哮,那是沉默的另一面。

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

唯一现实的观点是,人的生命是逐渐产生的,这对个人决策或制定公共政策没有多大帮助。

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

我们所拥有的一切,如果不是生活或幸福所必需的,就会成为一种负担,而且几乎每天我们都在为它添麻烦。

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

爱就是这样:最大幸福的母亲和最大不幸的继母。