Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  • -- William Lyon Phelps 菲普斯

那些决定把休闲作为心智发展手段的人,那些喜欢好音乐、好书、好画、好剧本、好伙伴、好对话的人——他们是什么?他们是世界上最幸福的人。

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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

决定我们命运的问题不是我们是否要向太空扩张。它是:我们是一个物种还是一百万?一百万个物种不会耗尽等待智能到来的生态位。

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

幸福在这个世界上,当它来临时,顺便来。把它当作追求的目标,它就会使我们徒劳无功,永远得不到。

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

世界上有很多事情,我相信我们都应该像国王一样快乐。

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

当人们说他们为你高兴时,这可能意味着他们为自己感到悲伤。

Even if the whole world gives up on you, you always have yourself.

即使全世界都放弃了你,你仍然拥有你自己。

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

决定你想做什么。然后决定去做。然后去做。

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

我不知道为什么人们认为我要退休。

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

愤世嫉俗是不快乐的人的名片。